The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Justin B. on December 26, 2017, 09:10:01 AM
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... are back to work!
I noticed over the past several days the volume of errors (hack attempts, back-door registration attempts, etc.) in the forum error log was way down. I was hoping against hope this might be a trend but this morning I was met with almost 200 errors since last night!
I've came to the conclusion that the majority of this stuff is perpetrated by trojans and worms on peoples workplace computers. I am thinking that a lot of these were shut down over the past several days so the bots were "sleeping," so to speak.
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I have noticed lately that there seems to be an elevated Visitor number while the bots are consistent. I just checked and NO bots, but 35 visitors..... that's not the ratio I have observed in the past.
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In admin mode, you can see the IP addresses,
most of the ' guests ' on this site most of them are only a few numbers apart .
A few weeks ago, all of the ' guests' , showed an origin in France .
I'm sure proxy servers are involved here .
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It has been the case for a little while now that when I log in, I am redirected and log in again. The password save recognises the prompts both times and then I am "in".
My user name and password are specific to this site only and no others. The only problem I have had is I am unable to post photos.
However the connection does come up as "not secure". Would this be something to be concerned about?
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I don't think it is a big problem for a general discussion forum. All that means is that data sent back and forth is not encrypted. Now, if this was an e-commerce site that would be suicide!
I have no idea why you can't post a photo unless it's too big or has an extension that's not on the "approved" filetype list.