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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
* WDZ prepares to say good-bye to all the guests :p

I made a quick static html page with all the info on it, and redirected the visitors to it. :pound:
10-05-2004 04:02 AM
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
Thanks DZ.

Never too lazy to :pound: 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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10-05-2004 04:07 AM
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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!
:o 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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error.php               04-Oct-2004 17:18     1k

Going to error.php just redirects to the thread on our forums. :dodgy:
10-05-2004 04:38 AM
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
wtf slap the bastard blasphemer :blah:

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10-05-2004 05:21 AM
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
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quote:
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!
:o 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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Parent Directory        04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
cgi-bin/                04-Oct-2004 17:14      - 
error.php               04-Oct-2004 17:18     1k

Going to error.php just redirects to the thread on our forums. :dodgy:
That mean his site dead? :p...

* RebelSean slaps TheBlasphemer around a bit with a large trout.

* RebelSean wanders why he did that.....Anyways we hit a new forum high users!!! :banana: 890 :p
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
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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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!


So TB, altered the page and made it to redirect to that thread....


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That mean his site dead? ...
There wasn't anything on that site anyways for a long time. But no it isn't dead cause you can still access it (although nothing is there).
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10-05-2004 12:51 PM
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
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. :S

I think I'll do some further investigation, and if this keeps up, just completely block the damn requests via .htaccess. :p
10-05-2004 04:19 PM
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RE: Forums Majorly Slow
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?
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u dont need to wait for wdz's reply, he will obviously say "Do it :pound:"
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Yeah, please stop redirecting those 107.8 users per minute to our poor forums... :p

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

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10-05-2004 07:23 PM
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