The forums have been really slow and sometimes I can't even get the pages to load, any reason why?

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looks like to me we got some flooders here:


631 user(s) active the past 15 minutes. (14 members, 2 invisible users, and 615 guests)
BlackStar, CanadianOriginal, Chrono, Ddunk, DJeX, jchichuv, LoochTheMan, marissa, NoName, Odin.EXE, pipish, snorreh, Washcloth?, WDZ

615 in past 15 min? is that normal?

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Guests keep riseing.

Well, let me say...There have been links posted on Mess.be and on Neowin that are some interest and people coming here... All I have to say is can't wait for new server...Also, yes it is REALYY slow for me..p

Ahh I see.

Good lord! Look at all the users looking at the thread: Reading Thread Ink/Handwriting Plugin Everything you need to know right here

Must bee good

Oh, I was wondering why the forums were so slow... I didn't bother checking who's online yet...

What site is linking to that thread??

I want to be lazy and avoid coding a referrer check.

Stop being lazy bum!

Get coding, It's not neowin or mess.be as far as I can tell.

I will search, not....

It seems that the culprit is...

http://blasphemy.killercarrot.co.uk/error.php?a=InkRedist

what the hell?

Umm.... Intresting.......



Damn Blasphy.....



Anyone want to explain?

explain all i can explain is 514 guests atm damn and yes it making the forums slow also i think we had a record amount of pplz here and it was 839 so yer weird

* WDZ prepares to say good-bye to all the guests

I made a quick static html page with all the info on it, and redirected the visitors to it.

Thanks DZ.

Never too lazy to are ya?

Oh well... Someone's still got some splainin to do.

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Looks like there are quite a few posts out on the internet that say that the address there comming from is a browser hijack by the handwriting plugin.... Intresting..... Oh Blasphemer!

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Originally posted by wj
Looks like there are quite a few posts out on the internet that say that the address there comming from is a browser hijack by the handwriting plugin.... Intresting..... Oh Blasphemer!

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Index of /

Name                    Last modified       Size  Description

Parent Directory        04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
cgi-bin/                04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
error.php               04-Oct-2004 17:18     1k

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wtf slap the bastard blasphemer

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Originally posted by WDZ

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Originally posted by wj
Looks like there are quite a few posts out on the internet that say that the address there comming from is a browser hijack by the handwriting plugin.... Intresting..... Oh Blasphemer!

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You're right... very dodgy!

Check out http://blasphemy.killercarrot.co.uk/... it looks like the site was "cleared out" today...

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Index of /

Name                    Last modified       Size  Description

Parent Directory        04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
cgi-bin/                04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
error.php               04-Oct-2004 17:18     1k

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Going to error.php just redirects to the thread on our forums.

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* RebelSean wanders why he did that.....Anyways we hit a new forum high users!!! 890

http://blasphemy.killercarrot.co.uk/error.php?a=InkRedist
is/was the page that everybody would get when they install/run the handwriting plugin without installing the ink redistributables first....

It showed a message that they should install the ink redists first.
Why TB used a page like that instead of a simple messagebox in his plugin? Who knows... maybe he wanted to track the amount of bad installs. (but IMHO, he should have made that page more clearer)

I guess TB got tired of the questions that people were asking why their handwriting wouldn't work. Some people even said the handwriting was spyware/adware because it opened a connection to that page and it popped up every time they started up Messenger. DUH!!!!

Oh, I missed wj saying this already:

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Originally posted by wj
Looks like there are quite a few posts out on the internet that say that the address there comming from is a browser hijack by the handwriting plugin.... Intresting..... Oh Blasphemer!

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Originally posted by Sean
That mean his site dead? ...

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Damn... I'm glad I set up that redirect last night... the thread is getting hit even harder today... I put a hit counter on the number of users getting redirected: 118 per minute!!! That's 2 requests for showthread.php?tid=22276 every second!

That seems highly suspicious... I've tested my hit counter code though and I'm sure it's correct.

I think I'll do some further investigation, and if this keeps up, just completely block the damn requests via .htaccess.

Sorry, that was me who put the link back up.  I was fed up of people asking me when they kept that page coming up and it said page not found, so i linked it to that page.

I can take it down if you want?

u dont need to wait for wdz's reply, he will obviously say "Do it "

Yeah, please stop redirecting those 107.8 users per minute to our poor forums...

In the 3-4 hours that I've been counting, there were over 23000 requests.

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Originally posted by TheBlasphemer
PS oh, the adware/spyware is bullshit. c'mon, you out of everyone I know should be aware of how fast false rumours start on the internet

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Ive uploaded the new file TheBlasphmer made.

Sorry for slowing down the forums

First it was the Screenshot Sender downloads using loads of bandwith, now this ...

Well, thanks for stopping the flood of requests for that thread. Now I can remove the referrer check.

Bah, WeeDZ must be having fun now