Guests

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:32 am

Is this normal?
Usually I don't look at the number of guests, except this week. It's been around 3 guests...

Post by **mahlemiut** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:37 am

I'd take a guess at a lot more spambots than usual.

The TJT · Post by **The TJT** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:48 am

Fear the robotroids.

"Lionel"

tar · Post by **tar** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:14 am

mahlemiut wrote:take a guess

i guess we have 71 guests.
rather boring guests

the tjt wrote:Is this normal?

where is seymour ?

Post by **seymour** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:31 am

tar wrote:where is seymour ?

Hiding!

I mean... busy. Yeah, that's it.

I did check some of the IPs that were showing up as Guests the other day, a few of them looked to be coming from Google. But I didn't feel like checking 50+ of them.

Has anything worse-than-usual been happening lately because of it? Or just lots of IPs being here. There were some somewhat exploit recent issues with phpBB, which was another reason I upgraded these forums. Maybe they're just automatically checking whatever phpBB powered boards they can find for something to exploit.

dskys · Post by **dskys** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:10 am

There was a virus doing the rounds last week or so that attacked phpBB's - is that what you were referring to? Apparently, it puts something in place of the usual board front-end or something... Dunno

Post by **seymour** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:28 am

dskys wrote:There was a virus doing the rounds last week or so that attacked phpBB's - is that what you were referring to? Apparently, it puts something in place of the usual board front-end or something... Dunno

Yeah, it was something like that. Dreamhost sent out an announcement about it, but I never read it in much detail. Since this forum should have been fine.