editor Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Some of you may have noticed that I've been a little irritable in my posts to the forum lately. That's because there's something bothering me.The web site is under attack. For the last month or so some new Windows spambot virus has been pounding the web site and forum trying to crack the security. The attacks are coming from what I assume are zombie Windows machines out of China and India with a few in the 'States, including New Jersey.To date it hasn't had an affect on the usefulness of the site, but it has cost me $160 in the last two weeks in bandwidth overuse charges. That's more than this site brings in in two months, so it's out of my pocket.I'm not asking you to do anything since there's not much you can do. I just thought you should know the situation in case the site gives in and suddenly goes down.Thanks for your understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 That sucks, Wayne.Did you get my email? Got an error message when I tried to access the second page of the "View Last Click" section. Seems to be stable again - for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 8, 2005 Author Share Posted September 8, 2005 That sucks, Wayne.Did you get my email? Got an error message when I tried to access the second page of the "View Last Click" section. Seems to be stable again - for the time being.Yeah, I got the message. I'm hoping it was a temporary glitch. The company that hosts the web site (Pair Networks in Pittsburgh) are tweaking the external firewalls to help filter out the worst of the attackers.If anyone sees any problems e-mail me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeebus Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Is HAIF a "random" target? or are has it be pre-selected to be continually attacked by the same machines until they crack it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjb434 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 I caught one error message yesterday, but that's all I've noticed. Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 8, 2005 Author Share Posted September 8, 2005 Is HAIF a "random" target? or are has it be pre-selected to be continually attacked by the same machines until they crack it?It appears that we were selected randomly. I've seen discussions from other web site owners that they, too, are being attacked by the same Windows bot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Man, I hate that sort of stuff. Can't people find better things to do with their skills?I hope all goes well and nothing happens to the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Any new word on this. I hope that the attacks have ceased.Also just wondering did you change the flood control time to 10 seconds rather than 20 sec. Just curious.EDIT: Just as an interesting point. After we went through some what of a slump around a month ago we have alot of users on now.68 guests, 31 members 2 anonymous members ---todayand just 4 days ago we had our most ever 165. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 The attacks have not ceased, but I'm fairly confident things will hold up for now. It won't collapse the web site right now, but it is costing money, so I still have to find a permanent solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torvald Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 The attacks have not ceased, but I'm fairly confident things will hold up for now. It won't collapse the web site right now, but it is costing money, so I still have to find a permanent solution.sorry to revamp an old topic but i am curious if you are still combating things like this regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 It's not so much the malicious attacks anymore as it is spammers trying to exploit weaknesses to spread their slime. But the people at Invision Power Services (the forum software authors) and Pair Networks (the host) have been very good about staying ahead of them. I used to block all computers from China and India from reaching HAIF. But then I went to China and couldn't get on, so I dropped those blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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