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Old 03-08-2002, 06:44 PM
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Default Hacking my board?

I've noticed sevral times today when my forums have about 15 guests (unusual), plus the IPs for all of them are 216.239.46.* where * is any given number. When I view who's online each of these guests is viewing a member profile. Is this indicative of somebody trying to hack vb?

If so, how can I go about banning that range of IPs?

ps. I've to upgrade to 2.2.3... planning to do it this weekend, hopefully.
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Old 03-09-2002, 01:30 AM
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Sounds suspicous ...

You can go into the admin panel and theres a link for banning options, just enter the ip address minus the * and that should ban those users.... alternately you can temp turn off guest viewing privledges for the board.
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Old 03-09-2002, 01:37 AM
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Minus the .*, okay, thanks. Yes, it seems extremely suspicious to me, aswell
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Old 03-09-2002, 01:48 AM
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This was also happening on my forums the day before yesterday. It was the strangest thing! I already don't allow unregistered guests from viewing the member list so I wasn't too concerned about it. It did appear that a bot was attempting to rummage through the members files though!
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Old 03-09-2002, 01:55 AM
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Right, that's what I was thinking, too. I'm going to hold off on the banning of the IP until I notice it again but damn if it ain't pecuiliar.
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Old 03-09-2002, 04:36 AM
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Maybe it's a search bot?
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Old 03-09-2002, 04:53 AM
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Originally posted by FireFly
Maybe it's a search bot?
At first I thought that too, except it only went after member.php. Nothing else was looked at.
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Old 03-09-2002, 08:30 AM
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even though i dont think its happened to my board, i think ill ban it just incase.
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I saw elsewhere that google bots got stuck in member profiles. It could be that.
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Good insight, Mark. I noticed that my google rankings had changed as of the "attack"... for the better
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