Members have posted that when they try to upload an image in a post or clicked on a message in the Messaging system, popups happen, then it goes to another site, often sexually explicit. According to one member, their Avast reported that site as Phishing.
Regarding uploading a fresh site of files, would that be via FTP, and if so, I just overwrite all files when transferring, that will keep all current images and data safe and intact?
Also, I have reached out to customer support and asked about moving my self hosted forum over to cloud, and to ask if by having it hosted on cloud, I would not have to worry about this type of problem, and the reply was "if you ever were to have a problem with like DoS attacks or malicious content injection, our team would take care of that for you." This is great, but unfortunately at this time I don't think I can afford the monthly fee for this.
Thanks for the reply Marc.