Hello folks, Pinion_Blue - forum moderator of www.qcf.ca here (you may remember our radio show interviewing Mike a couple months ago)
anyway, to business
Recently it came to my attention that a bot by the name of "FuntKlakow" is registering to hundreds of thousands of phpBB based forum systems and is preparing a massive attack on the system. Any forum with the bot will be affected by the attack, which threatens to completely erase server backup data and shut down each forum it infects. All Mods and Administrators please search your system for this bot or anyone you may think is a bot and delete them immediately, then patch your system. Its set to trigger at the next announcement of a critical flaw in the phpBB system, so hurry and check your forums as quickly as possible.
Oh and just so you know, this isnt one of those crazy bulletins you get everywhere. I wrote it myself, because i encountered the bot on my forums.
Being a fan and a friend of the site, i thought i would let you all know what was going on and what you can do to stop it.
Thanks for the newws cheif. Discoballs, you finally have a job to do on this forum.
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Mar 19, 2006 - 10:09 AM
Wasman Lemur
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i half suspect that Discoballs is in fact this bot..
Mar 19, 2006 - 11:05 AM
cartwright Global Mod
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he's just a love machine.
Mar 19, 2006 - 11:41 AM
Team_180B Global Mod
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How the hell do we know if a user is a bot? This looks like a job for...
...Ribosome.
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Mar 19, 2006 - 01:23 PM
Wasman Lemur
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may i ask, who the hell is ribosome? Whats he gonna do, manufacture some protien for us?
Mar 19, 2006 - 03:40 PM
Team_180B Global Mod
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He's the Admin who is never here.
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Mar 19, 2006 - 05:58 PM
cartwright Global Mod
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i'm guessing we'll know the its the bot because it will be named "FuntKlakow"?
Mar 20, 2006 - 02:47 AM
Team_180B Global Mod
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If he's dumb enough to register everywhere under the same name he's not a 1337 h4x0r.
i jus put up 1337 fir3w4ll!!!!!11oneone
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Mar 20, 2006 - 03:37 AM
nish Global Mod
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oh my god... its a MASSIVE ATTACK.
Somebody get Ribosome.
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Mar 20, 2006 - 06:36 AM
MikeParker Site Admin
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Hey Punchy-
Thanks for the heads up- nice work!
I sent it off to Ribosome, he's working on updating the script and doing any patching, I did a search for "FuntKlakow" and there isn't anybody, but I also disallowed that name from being created, hopefully that will do enough to block this. Plus I just backed up the forum and site databases just in case....
Thanks everybody for looking out for CU!
Mar 20, 2006 - 07:30 AM
Team_180B Global Mod
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thx mike and kramer, u r teh UBER ADMIN!!!111
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Mar 20, 2006 - 02:09 PM
Punchy701 Newbie
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i try, i try.
...told ya id be a good mod (just kidding....ive got enough on my plate as is. You try doing three to four radio shows, moderating a forum, writing a third book and proofreading the two before it and working on a feature film.....im tired pretty much all the time.....its kinda like when chicks with big boobs do push ups....its hard)
Mar 20, 2006 - 06:32 PM
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Punchy701 wrote:
...told ya id be a good mod (just kidding....ive got enough on my plate as is. You try doing three to four radio shows, moderating a forum, writing a third book and proofreading the two before it and working on a feature film.....im tired pretty much all the time.....its kinda like when chicks with big boobs do push ups....its hard)
No one offered...now leave this place.
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Mar 20, 2006 - 07:39 PM
Punchy701 Newbie
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it was a joke mofo....lol
oh and deleting the user didnt help us
take a look at www.qcf.ca (current time of link would be 12:39:42 PM Central Time)
yeah....we got nuked
so.....yeah its a real good thing to back up your systems
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(just kidding....ive got enough on my plate as is. You try doing three to four radio shows, moderating a forum, writing a third book and proofreading the two before it and working on a feature film.....im tired pretty much all the time.....its kinda like when chicks with big boobs do push ups....its hard)