South of England Steel Guitar Festival 2013

[Digby Hardy]

SESGF 2013 is now in the final planning phase.
The venue as usual is the Community Hall at Long Ashton, just south of Bristol.
You can get your tickets on line from the SESGF web site or by sending a cheque.
We will have a menu for the Saturday evening dinner after our next planning meeting in mid March.
If you have any questions drop me or Ron Kew a line.

See you at Long Ashton.

Digby

[Donny Johnston]

Digby, Looks like your off and running again, good luck with this one although you should be getting the hang of it now. Best to Chantelle, I still think she made a mistake, but that's woman for you. I look forward to seeing you both at Thornton Watlass in August. Regards, Donny.

[Arcada]

Digby, are you aware there could be a virus issue on the ESGF site?

See Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic for more information.

[Digby Hardy]

Marc, I am aware of the problem. I have locked off the forum and hope to get it fixed in the next few weeks. Unfortunately Google and other crawlers can still to the pages.

The problem is a frame virus that attacks ftp clients - in my case Filezilla - which it uses to get into web sites and insert the frame virus. It affected six of my web sites including the German Steel Guitar Forum. Filezilla does not encrypt user names and passwords, now I use WinSCP.

The problem was fixed in the GSGF and ESGF will be fixed next.

Digby

[Digby Hardy]

Donny - what's going on? Steel Guitar festivals every month or so. Never used to happen when I were a lad.

All praise to your efforts in Bonnyland and we look forward to seeing you in August. Chantal sends her best wishes but keeps muttering "If only he were dark and hansome!" What can she mean?

D

[Donny Johnston]

Should have gone to specsavers.

[Arcada]

The problem is a frame virus that attacks ftp clients - in my case Filezilla - which it uses to get into web sites and insert the frame virus. It affected six of my web sites including the German Steel Guitar Forum. Filezilla does not encrypt user names and passwords, now I use WinSCP.

Ah, sounds like a variant of the "Gumblar" virus, I know a few people caught out by that. I've personally never used Filezilla for the very reason you state, instead I use FlashFXP in FTP over SSL mode. It helps that my server is set to only accept FTP connections from my IP address as well. Some hosts now provide this additional level of security, if yours doesn't and you want that extra peace of mind - get in touch, I'd gladly host your sites for you

[Digby Hardy]

Marc - this virus inserts a text file and also text strings in index.* files, etc. So it's just a matter of editing them out. In the case of my websites I just relaoded them from scratch but the forum uses phpBB like this one and I just haven't had the time to edit the files - but we know what needs to be done because we cleared up the GermanSGF.

Thanks for the hosting offer, I'll keep it in mind.

Digby

[Shaun]

TIcket and Room booked

Looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Shaun

[Pat Henrick]

It's gone very quiet, is it still on and who's going?
There is a list of players on the site but it says 2012.!!