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10-18-2006, 07:05 PM #1
Thanks for the great work Joe! I'm just wondering wtf's their problem and why they'd wanna mess with our site.
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10-18-2006, 07:17 PM #2
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Thanked: 1so they're sure to keep trying to find another way to invade sites such as ours.
If there is not a short explaination, don't worry about wasting time to explain it to the dummy, here. It wouldn't be the first time I was confused about something.
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10-18-2006, 07:27 PM #3
usually they do it 'just because they can' making you just the nth random victim. At other times they try to invade your 'box' to get another 'node' to cloak their path into whatever it is they want to invade. Does that make sense to you?
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10-18-2006, 09:02 PM #4
Dang, I just hate it when someone tries to invade my node...Joe, kill them somsabiches!!! Better yet, sic Josh on em.
Circle the wagons boys, they wanna get into our box!
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10-18-2006, 09:13 PM #5Originally Posted by urleebird
On the flashchat support forum I've read horror stories where the hackers deleted all the member information, in another case they deleted all the files on the site, etc.... just plain malicious stuff. Another thing they like to do is change the look of the site... add they're own graphics, change screens, etc. Clearly there's nothing to "steal" from a chat site like ours, so I'd say it's "kids playing"... but many of these hackers are far from kids, at least in age. Their mentality is a different story.
There was a security alert and an upgrade to flashchat released about the time we first planned on moving the site... I stupidly delayed doing the upgrade and it kept getting put off as the move kept getting delayed. You'd think I'd have learned by now about keeping the importance of things in their proper perspective... but apparently not.
Live and learn
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10-18-2006, 09:25 PM #6
Check Lynn's shaving video, it MIGHT contain a virus. My AV went haywire when I tried dl-ing it.
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10-18-2006, 11:00 PM #7Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT
It's also conceivable that the SRP site's video module isn't working correctly since the move... there's been several "surprises" since the move (besides the virus, lol) where functions that used to work don't... all have been explainable, usually related to file permissions, a config statement change we overlooked, or a software version issue between the new and old server. By far, the biggest issue has been file permissions (for you non-techy guys, that means who's is allowed to read/write/execute files on the server... & to you unix guys I'm talking about chmod). Anytime files moved their permissions seem to get changed... eg, on the old server everytime the host moved us from one CPU to another the permissions got reset to their (the host's) defaults no matter what we had them set to. (BTW, that's likely a contributor to the virus intrusion, since I had things locked down pretty tight.)
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10-18-2006, 11:18 PM #8Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT
Nenad
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10-18-2006, 11:37 PM #9Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT
But as for a true virus, my checker says nay. Let me know if you still suspect something... virus checkers aren't perfect
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10-19-2006, 12:10 AM #10
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Thanked: 1Any way to get a physical address on the hoople heads causing the damage? I'm not doing anything important next week... I could drop by and say "hi".