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Alright, some one registered the name Antionline.com, and every time some one trys to connect to this site (Or at least me) without addind /index.php on the end, they get this users Profile....It might just be me, but it's really weird...and irritating.....
- Noia
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The address to this users profile, or as I see www.antionline.com,
http://www.antionline.com/member.php...&userid=135511
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I was just about to post this Noia weird huh i thought the profiles were .org domains
They are, I guess some part of AO's scripting auto-looks for Usernames and Re-directs you...or something....I dono...this is too complex for me...
I get the same problem here. Its annoying, but im sure AO will fix it soon.
I just posted a question regaurding the same thing ooops sorry about that :confused: but i didnt see yours until mine was posted LOL sorry about that
It's alrite :) as long as I wont have to stare at an Empty Profile for much longer.
That is weird... I didnt see that this morning, so it must be recent...
Somebody might have registered the name on purpose to mess things up. This is strange indeed!
JP will fix it soon :)
albn
It looks like someone is playing games again, another ID just registered with the nic of Antionline4444.
One of the Mod's will get to the bottom of this shortly.
it's rather stupid really....theres another user about taking the piss outa JP again....ugh.....it's all old news, and not scary....y can't they just get over it??
looks like AO is a neon blue light for Skidiot-fly's.....they are drawn here, and are zapped soon after.
oh well...life goes on
- Noia
I have a sneaking suspicion on who it might be, but only JP can know that for sure.
albn
Well it would seem about every two or three months one of the old Banned dickheads has to show up and start throwing **** around.
Lol.....oh well, I have to admit, it's a rather clever way of disrupting AO, either it was done by fluke or some one sat down and figured this out, either way..it'a buggin' me....
Theres always some fool thinking it's cool to slag some one else off like that, well...it's not...all you do is cause grief for no reason...well.....you cause grief in the fact that I have to Neg you...which is soooo much effort ;) oh well...I have work to do...l8r
- Noia
Hey guys,
At least I know its not just me... Cool now I don't have to report this bug, I hate reporting bugs, I would rather squash em!
Guys,
I know most of you know it but for the ones that don't (and while JP resolves this problem) just paste this link - http://www.antionline.com/index.php - in your favorites or use it as your browser home page.
Just a question, if this user gets banned the problem will continue because the account will still be active, am i right???
Bye,
DKRR
I am pretty sure JP can delete the user and patch the forum scripts where usernames like that are not allowed anymore.Quote:
Just a question, If this user gets banned the problem will continue because the account will still be active, am i right???
For some reason I remember hearing, either in the forums or in AO IRC, someone proposing the idea that if you registered www as a username then you would get www.antionline.org as a members page... Obviously this is not what happens, because interestingly enough http://www.antionline.org redirects you to the correct AO home page... (not to mention that the username in question is clearly antionline.com).
Perhaps someone tried to register www and failed and tried antionline.com instead... If you want a weird URL try http://antionline.com.antionline.org same as www.antionline.com right now...
Pretty soon that user profile is going to be the most looked at one in AO... its been viewed 425 times already...
Well, it is an interesting problem anyway. Eventhough it is vexing, it definately shows that even if you try your hardest, someone will either intentionally or accidentally figure out a way to annoy the hell out of you...
Well, as interesting as this is..., I have other things I should be attending.
Ciao,
Dhej
Well, I think this is a typical attempt of getting attention on the mundane level. I don't think a nick like that is accidental (IMO). Anyways, should this be an actual attack of sorts - an old article sums up why these kind of attacks are expected and humorous.
John Vranesevich doesn't worry about being enemy No. 1 of the hacker community. He embraces it.
Quote:
"It's my job to catch them, so it's like a cocaine dealer and a cop,"
IF you want, you can read the fairly old article hereQuote:
"It's not surprising that they wouldn't like me or what I'm doing,"
I believe it's just a domain fluke and not an attack. The reason i think so is because this site is so complicated i don't see how JP even got it all put together in the first place, and there is bound to be a glitch now and then. If it were really someone messing around i think they'd be posting or something, taking credit for sneaking in the side door, something like that anyway. I have a couple of fairly complicated websites, but Antionline is amazing to me how many features JP and his crew have created, how they all connect like spiderwebs, and how they all work so well (well, most of the time anyway).
Anyway, if it is an attack of some kind, i imagine JP's blood pressure clicked up a couple of notches, he got a big grin on his face and went in to examine the event.
Maybe he will let us know whether it was a glitch or an event, when it's all fixed.
Just recieved a neg, with this:
I am no peon. It is YOU ("exploiter") who is the peon! Pissant!Quote:
Roll Calls Galore
Today 06:44 PM The board is exploitable... I made the Antionline.com account and I flooded the board. Go run and spread the news my little peon!!!
Edit: Of course, that doesn't mean its an attack. Could quite easily be someone trying to claim credit for a bug. Wouldn't be the first, or the last, time that happens.
mobius quick question for you, did the Antipoint have a green box or a white one? green indicates older member younger member means white/grey
personally, i find it very odd t hat just using that name skips the index.php right on, except for it checks ok i get it nm. Thats so annoying, find that loser and ban the hell out of him/her. not that itll do any good, but meh o well.
Hmmm, still no sign of change here.....has JP been notified or is he unable to do something coz of legal or moral reasons.....or.....is he working on it now? I'm just wondering really...
Oh well.....as some one said in a thread bout the same subject, though I closed the window, so I can't quote fully but, the profile is acting like a hit-counter :)any way, theres no need to tell people how to get here, coz either they will find their own way in to be able to read this, or they will come in after it's been fixed and then the info will be useless so I see no need to tell ppl how to get in, well, atleast not in the forum. :D
- Noia
I noticed JP was online 5 or 10 minutes ago and was viewing a user profile. Hopefully he is currently checking into it and will have it cleaned up shortly.
Cheers:
OK, there we go, it's all seems to working again....sweet.....Tanx JP, Nice work :)
- Noia
Greetings All:
Sorry it took me a while to see this. I've been swamped lately.
The main index.php page handles both the antionline.com site, and the antionline.org redirects. Obviously, someone registered the antionline.com account, and it caused the script to redirect to what should have been "self", but ended up redirecting to the profile.
I don't believe that this was at all intentional (it was a VERY obscure thing in custom code, so I don't see anyone coming up with it on purpose, especially since no one has access to the code). I think it's simply the random result of having over a quarter of a million accounts registered in the last year, until the single one that exposed the bug was found.
Problem has since been fixed. Thanks all.....