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Possible Outages in Your Area

Edgy MD May 11 2012 10:55 AM

We may do some testing, turning the forum on and off, experimenting with where the apparent issue is with what appears to be a malicious attack on the forum. We'll try and get to the bottom of this soon. If you want to continue to visit, please make sure your security/firewall software is up to date. Chat here with any questions: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cran ... 3123367182

metirish May 11 2012 11:27 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

So maybe this is why I am getting blocked at work all day?

Benjamin Grimm May 11 2012 11:29 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Yes. And you may have provided us with an important clue as well.

Ceetar May 11 2012 11:35 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

do you guys get the phishing warning if you go directly to forums? say [url]http://www.cranepoolforum.net/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=1 ?

Benjamin Grimm May 11 2012 11:42 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

It seems like it's only (or mostly?) coming up when I navigate to or from the Board Index.

Fman99 May 11 2012 12:06 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Here's what my company A/V software says. In case this helps...

Mets – Willets Point May 11 2012 12:16 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I haven't seen anything. Is this why it was so quiet last night?

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 11 2012 12:29 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I got warnings from Kaspersky for both urls listed above when using home PC/Chrome. Using a Mac/Safari at the office and get nothin.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 11 2012 01:35 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Whether by home computer (Mac and PC, both via FiOS) or mobile device (T-Mobile Android thingy), I got no worry.

Benjamin Grimm May 11 2012 01:39 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

One silver lining in this mess is that it allowed me to discover this fascinating web site, which shares a server with the Crane Pool Forum: http://katpuke.com And don't worry, it's safe for work! No painted naked ladies.

soupcan May 11 2012 02:48 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I got no warnings at all from home, work nor mobile devices.

metirish May 11 2012 03:11 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Benjamin Grimm wrote: One silver lining in this mess is that it allowed me to discover this fascinating web site, which shares a server with the Crane Pool Forum: http://katpuke.com And don't worry, it's safe for work! No painted naked ladies. very interesting site....very visual .

d'Kong76 May 11 2012 07:31 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Email from forum host: There has been a zero day security vulnerability announced when running php as cgi. It appears that this is an issue in most versions of PHP. Here is the announcement from php.net http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-03-1 We are patching all shared hosting servers. All dedicated servers should also be patched if they run php as cgi. Please contact (link remove by Kong76) technical support at: (link removed by Kong76) if you have any questions. Thanks (Sig removed by Kong76) Admin Team

d'Kong76 May 11 2012 08:30 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Short term fix, bookmark this instead: viewforum.php?f=1

Ashie62 May 11 2012 08:38 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

You have to change your bookmark..Just did myself...Where is Rogers at lol

Ashie62 May 11 2012 08:39 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Do not hit the board index link after posting..oye

batmagadanleadoff May 11 2012 09:15 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Ashie62 wrote: Do not hit the board index link after posting..oye What if I already did?

Ashie62 May 11 2012 09:23 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I still can't really navigate on any browser now. Its hit and miss. Later for awhile folks. LETS GO METS!

Mets – Willets Point May 12 2012 07:20 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Kong76 wrote: Short term fix, bookmark this instead: viewforum.php?f=1 That's the bookmark I always use. Is that why I haven't had any problems at all?

Ashie62 May 12 2012 11:28 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I still get windows media player

batmagadanleadoff May 12 2012 06:24 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I just got a pop-up message that my anti-virus program detected and removed a trojan from my computer. No further action (on my part, I assume), is necessary. I then got the same message twice more -- whenever I clicked that recommended bookmark to link to the Baseball Forum.

batmagadanleadoff May 12 2012 11:05 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I just got the pop-up trojan message again. Right after I log in, I'm automatically directed to that supersized index page. Then the trojan pop-up appears. I tried to grab a screen image of the trojan notification with snipping tool but as soon as I click the snipping tool icon, the pop up disappears.

batmagadanleadoff May 13 2012 09:32 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Logged in. Risky connection blocked. Trojan detected and removed. AM I the only one still getting these messages?

TransMonk May 13 2012 01:48 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Something's still not right because I still get the super-sized index page. I'm just checking in to post my KTE and check on the weirdness.

batmagadanleadoff May 13 2012 02:01 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Here are frame grabs of the anti-virus messages I keep getting whenever I log in.

Frayed Knot May 13 2012 03:23 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I'm not having any of these problems at the CPF. I am, however, getting totally blank screens on several other websites and partially blank ones on still others. I can't figure that one out at all.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 13 2012 05:09 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Getting malware warnings when I go through the cranepoolforum.net portal.

Fman99 May 13 2012 06:58 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Same here. For now I've bookmarked the baseball and non-baseball forums so I can reach them directly.

metirish May 14 2012 07:36 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Still getting blocked at work.

G-Fafif May 14 2012 02:19 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Safari browser on which I usually visit CPF gives me a malware message. Firefox is OK.

Ceetar May 14 2012 02:32 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

this is 'why' chrome is giving me a warning: content from vzdqgxkj.ftpserver.biz someone hotlink an image from tehre or something? qhpqtctciu.serveuser.com too. bah.

metsmarathon May 14 2012 10:31 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

chrome yells about it too, now. i expect the site to be blocked at work tomorrow.

metirish May 15 2012 06:41 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Any resolution with this?, I can't access the site at work which is where I mostly post from and even at home my chromebook doesn't want me to come here.

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2012 06:50 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

No, no resolution yet. I was blocked at work yesterday, but apparently not today. (Or at least, not yet today.)

Ceetar May 15 2012 07:03 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Chrome gives me the option to proceed anyway, which I do.

metirish May 15 2012 07:08 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Actually, using IE at work and am not getting blocked................yet

Ceetar May 15 2012 07:42 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

emjqjkxdur.ddns.ms these things are on the host server somewhere? is alternate hosting in the meantime feasible or is it too difficult to port?

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2012 07:47 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Yes, the issue is on the server somewhere. And moving the forum somewhere else is a big task and is not being considered.

metirish May 15 2012 07:58 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Last time we movied was in 2006?, IIRC it was indeed a big task for those of youse doing the lifting.

Ceetar May 15 2012 08:02 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

yeah, never moved a forum myself. wasn't sure if it was as simple as a download a whole directory, upload a whole directory

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2012 12:05 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I removed some badness about an hour ago. (There was code in our index.html page that was redirecting us to some Russian site.) Since we're still seeing the giant font on the index page, I suspect that something is still wrong somewhere. From this point forward, please post something here if you see any more error messages that come up when you successfully access the forum. Be sure to mention what browser you're using. If you're blocked from visiting the forum, that's another story. Sites like Google and Websense have us labeled as evil and even if the problem is fixed, it may be a while until these external sites recognize that and stop blocking us.

G-Fafif May 15 2012 12:09 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

To reiterate, no problems on Firefox, "malware" notice on Safari.

Ceetar May 15 2012 12:12 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

apparently http://buschurracing.com/ is hosted in the same place. not exciting though. Google says it hasn't visited since yesterday, so maybe next time it hits it it'll be clean now. I get the malware warning, but just the generic one, not the "content from" i was getting b efore and the text looks normal now.

Ceetar May 15 2012 01:07 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

nope, big text again and malware from: xycujqm.ns02.biz

metirish May 15 2012 01:39 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Looks like I got a virus on my work PC.... Not good.

Edgy MD May 15 2012 01:47 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Looks like we got some new skin here.

Benjamin Grimm May 15 2012 01:49 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

I'm checking to see if changing the style sheet gets rid of the problem. The large text on the board index page makes me think that the styles may have been hacked. I do have a backup version of "Caribbean" that I can restore if necessary. If the problem goes away with this new look, then that will confirm that the style sheet was the issue.

Ceetar May 15 2012 01:51 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm checking to see if changing the style sheet gets rid of the problem. The large text on the board index page makes me think that the styles may have been hacked. I do have a backup version of "Caribbean" that I can restore if necessary. If the problem goes away with this new look, then that will confirm that the style sheet was the issue. nope, same error, same referenced url as the last time.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 15 2012 01:52 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Safari asks me not to get on. If I ignore, it repeats warning with every load. Phone is only place I can get on without a warning. I have new pc at home, I don't wanna risk fucking it up so soon. Ps, I like the blue and white here.

Ceetar May 15 2012 02:00 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

could it be the rss feed?

G-Fafif May 15 2012 02:08 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Stylish! But still a problem on Safari as noted. Thanks for the hard work on this, admins.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 15 2012 02:23 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Still a problem on Safari... and ALSO a problem on Firefox.

batmagadanleadoff May 15 2012 08:02 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Is it safe?

G-Fafif May 15 2012 09:13 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Knowing not everybody can get on makes me feel like I'm reading the strike edition of the Daily News in 1990-91: Not quite right. Though not nearly as much wire service copy.

Benjamin Grimm May 16 2012 12:44 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Is it safe? Yes! This morning I requested that Websense do a fresh scan of the site, and this afternoon at around 1:30 they got back to me saying that the forum is free of badness. If you're blocked at work it may take a little while for your employer to get the update. (It took about an hour for my company to lift the blockade.) The other company which had been giving "blocked" messages was Google. Their review is still pending, but I expect that we'll get an all clear from them too. Summary: The forum is safe. You may still be blocked for another few hours or longer but that is only because it may take a little while for the news to spread. But if you can get here, you can hang out without fear.

sharpie May 16 2012 12:48 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Google still hating.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 16 2012 01:11 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

not hating now

sharpie May 16 2012 01:17 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Still hating for me.

G-Fafif May 16 2012 01:19 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

And she's back on Safari! (How she got in my pajamas, I'll never know.)

Benjamin Grimm May 16 2012 02:22 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Google has discovered harmful code on your site and will display a warning to users when they attempt to visit your pages. Status of the latest badware review for this site: A review for this site has finished. The site was found clean. The badware warnings from web search are being removed. Please note that it can take some time for this change to propagate.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 16 2012 03:06 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

All clear here. I would high-five you guys, but, well...

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 16 2012 03:09 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Yeah, it was probably the naked guy high-fiving Ronald McDonald.

Mets – Willets Point May 16 2012 03:20 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Yay! I'm back in!

dinosaur jesus May 16 2012 05:21 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Back, and glad to be. Before Google started telling me not to come here, I was getting bounced to some site in the Coco Islands.

Valadius May 16 2012 08:26 PM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

All clear at home.

metirish May 17 2012 06:46 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Glad to be back, thanks to all those here who worked diligently to fix this.

MFS62 May 17 2012 07:38 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

It now worketh just fine from home. Many thanks for your efforts. Later

Ashie62 May 18 2012 03:06 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Thanks to all who worked on this!

metirish May 21 2012 11:48 AM Re: Possible Outages in Your Area

Blocked at work again, I think IT have flagged this place.