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Security Measures

Yesterday, when I tried to login, I received a very wird message, that said that I was guilty of bad behavour (?) and my IP was being send to a honeypot (?). But today I managed to login without problems... I became very sacared, because I thought that a hacker was using my computer to attack the sim-outhouse.

Trasno
 
trasno said:
Yesterday, when I tried to login, I received a very wird message, that said that I was guilty of bad behavour (?) and my IP was being send to a honeypot (?). But today I managed to login without problems... I became very sacared, because I thought that a hacker was using my computer to attack the sim-outhouse.

Trasno
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I've had the same experience since Tuesday morning, and my feelings were the same... Since then, I only had a 503 error screen. This morning I could at least get to the main page, through a proxy, and found I had been banned. I could send a message to the administrstors through the system,and for what it seems it paid off :applause:.

BTW, Hello :bump:
 
In The FWIW Column

... And this has absolutely NOTHING to do with Ickie's work...

But my laptop suffered a HUMONGOUS Worm infestation last night - got past 3 layers of anit-malware before Avast stopped it

A 6 hour (overnight) virus check killed 145 infected files, and I'm in the process of rebuilding what can't be used with new files.

Beware the Win.32:Delf-MZG {Tri} Worm, Mates !

Don't know whence it derived, but it ain't on here anymore !

SC
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A bit redundant here? My week is up I'm on vacation say for 6 week's, when I come home and try to log back on I'll be in the "s-can" is this correct?

Must I then reapply to SOH a totally new-be? My contribution efforts are in the "s-can" as well? With no residual history of me @ SOH so-on and so-forth?

Now must I just simple apply, becoming the new kid on the block "starting allover again for the "x" time"?

Skipsan :kilroy:
 
I think all you have to do is make one post. There are guys who never post, and I think they are the ones who have to make at least one post. Santa's helper looks pretty good up there!
 
One post is all that is needed. Most of you accomplish that every day. This is really just for those who visit but don't post.
 
...........................its a bit painful:isadizzy:
when you see the download figures for some things, compared to the THANX posts (which might get, say 25 thankyous) Looks pretty crummy, seeing that hundreds are downloading some files

...we are a fraternity, and a respectful one too(pretty rare on the www) so i agree
.it takes not much time to post and have your say:engel016:
 
You are right, egypt. That's how I started at SOH. Downloading tons of stuff. I promised myself that I would make a donation, as soon as I got a download to install. I was a complete pc and cfs2 virgin. I am still pretty fresh, but I am learning some tricks from the pros. For the guys that never bother checking the cfs2 forum, you are missing the best part of the site. The guys here are great, and willing to help. Don't be afraid to ask questions. You can get tons of info, just by reading the posts. I believe most of the guys that have made this sim so good, are right here at SOH.
 
I also installed software which keeps out bots, spammer ISP's and bad ISP's, it also scans incoming connections and if it detects bots/trogans/viruses which spreads to other IP's, it will not let you in. Nor will I.
2 of our members were caught with bad trogans and did not know it until they seen my page and it told them what they had and where to go to remove it. I than told them my favorate online scanner and they did and even found more viruses.
This is to protect you.
I have been working 1 on 1 with people to get them back here at SOH,
The internet is full of bad ISP's and some of you are their customers.
The messages you have received in the 403 error page, are intended to tell you of your bad ISP. I did not make these messages but I think they get the point out, lol. I am working with the writter of this software to streamline this for future customers. This is the newest thing and soon you will see it everywhere on all forums. This does keep out them hackers and prevents them from altering our pages.....
 
Thank you Ickie for the explanation and your efforts :applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

An explanation on what one is to encounter does help one to coupe with an work with or around the issue :isadizzy:

All one can hope for is an explanation to deal with the problem :USA-flag: [no interactive banana's]

Skipsan :kilroy:
 
ah, this makes much sense now, thanks for the effort and for the saftey for us all, much appreciatd Ickie;)
 
These new attack bots are something else, they try everything to get by and attack your IP here is a snippet from the programmer.
This is a thanks to Ron Larson, I saw the attack on his board where they tried (unsuccessfully) to split the signature with an uprintable ASCII like this... "=%0Dhttp:" well, the way to fix this was to remove the "=".
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as you see they add special characters to fool the system

I want SOH to be a safe place to visit.
 
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