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Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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To real guests: I'd like to encourage guests to register and post as well. In my opinion, we need some more 'Moot addicts (Not necessarily spammers, though
![]() Such a shame that all the records break when it's 5 in the morning here. ![]() ![]() Re: The "hackers"- there are less online now, but they are still doing odd things. One is reporting a post (maybe not so strange), one 'moderating duties' and one has been reading the same thread for a while. (Bear in mind that this thread, I think, has two posts in it- each with about a sentence)- who knows, maybe they left the window open. *shrug* Last edited by Linaewen : 07-04-2003 at 04:40 AM. |
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#82 |
Saviour of Entmoot Admiral
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.)
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Entmoot is under attack by suspicious bots
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#83 |
Corruptor
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Jozi SA
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Well, I just want to thank those bots for finally giving BMilder something to post about
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Saviour of Entmoot Admiral
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.)
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the whole thing is just very odd - now more guests from that inkotome place or however it is spelled and now like 4 from this base ip : "wall.soneralink.com"
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#85 |
Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
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4 is not much compared to the 40-something (or whatever) they had this morning. (Night for you)
Admins, are there actually any post reports? I've been looking at 'Who's Online' and there are a number of posts being reported. Supposedly. |
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Hobbit
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Iceland
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Saviour of Entmoot Admiral
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.)
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yeah, there are only 4 from "inktomisearch.com" edit - there are now 6 five minutes after I said that.
There are other guests on and they look like bots too "robot.szukacz.pl" Don't you think it odd that after a day the bots from the same site are still here? Yes, at least it is not over 40 - I was there when they were all here. Guests cannot report posts, quote posts, edit posts, or do moderating duties. They are just on those pages so Who's Online says they are doing that. It looks like whoever the guests are, they have gone through the whole board practically. We have not recieved any reported posts from guests, and we won't. No guest from that site has registered either - with good reason if they are bots. Probably nothing to worry about - guests are shown as doing weird things all the time. It is nothing new. What is weird is that a lot of guests from the same isp have been here for over a day and won't go away.
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90% angel
Join Date: Feb 2003
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yeah when i was looking at the whos online board someone was doing moderating duties i think somethings getting really scary HELP!
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: the US of A! But I wish i was in austraila, never been, just think it would be a fun place to live :)
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*gets voice of girl on The Poltergeist* They're baaaack!
right now there's 42....and only one was doing mod duties! lol Its really kinda interesting....of course it could also be sad that we're getting kinda excited/worried about a bunch of bots/hackers/whatever was decided they are...oh well
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#90 |
Entmoot Attorney-General,
Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Now they're 50 guests. Will they come back day after day?
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The Buddy Rabbit
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Trapped in the headlights..
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It's happening on a few other message boards as well, a board I frequent has stopped guests browsing the threads.......until the interlopers get bored trying to gather info.
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
Posts: 5,340
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Maybe I'll change the title of this thread to "Dear fake guests... F*ck You!"?
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Banned
Join Date: Feb 2003
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#94 |
Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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Well, I keep thinking of Entmoot (and/or my home system) getting corrupted Sunday! I hope "The Savior of Entmoot"
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Retired Ent
Join Date: Sep 1999
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Disturbing. This is happening on other message boards? If so, either those are also being softened up for an attack, or some benign bot is going haywire.
I've sent a notice to F5Hosting to let them know about the situation. Hopefully they can keep an eye on it. We may consider closing down the 'Moot on Sunday "just in case." *edit* The amazingly quick customer service has given me this response: Quote:
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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I'm still thinking of taking an internet holiday Sunday! I don't want to take any chance of getting more corrupted than I already am!
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Rohirrim Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 590
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Theres only 3 guests on now, there was 55 about an hour ago....
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Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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#99 |
Saviour of Entmoot Admiral
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.)
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The suspicious guests are gone and have been for several hours (when Ben came on and emailed our hosting server - they got rid of the bots).
Having guests on the board is normal - all the ones on now are normal and not suspicious. What was suspicious was for over 72 hours having over 50 guests from the same isp! They were messed up bots - doing who knows what. (didn't have 50 on all the time, most of the time 20-30, but I saw only 4 at one time...) But the suspicious guests now really are gone - the other day they just dwindled down to a couple. ![]()
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Lady of Legends
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Missing. Reward if found.
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There are only 3 guests on now, but a few min. ago I looked and it said one of them was creating a new thread
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