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General => General Forum Comments => Topic started by: george on November 24, 2005, 01:50:11 pm

Title: Attention webmaster
Post by: george on November 24, 2005, 01:50:11 pm

Some members of this site report problems connecting.

See http://www.canadiancoin.com/cgi-bin/discussion/message.asp?_id=103711&_st=0 for details.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Attention webmaster
Post by: rscoins on November 25, 2005, 09:42:54 am

I was one of them, all I got from Friday, November 19 until November 25 was a 404 error message. As you can see, it appears to be resolved. I understand that others have had (or are having) this problem.

Rick

Title: Re: Attention webmaster
Post by: admin on November 26, 2005, 11:32:02 am

Yes, well... my fault.

We have a "persistant pest" who has a script running against the site that tries to hack in every 3-5 minutes. I turned on some new security features to block it and as a result, ended up blocking some users too.

I'm trying to learn more about what this guy is doing, and how I can block him, but it's going to take some time, as I'm not really security "savy". Any internet security gurus out there?

For now, just make sure your passwords are good (6 or more characters, mixture of upper and lower case, use at least one number and one "special character" like !, %, & etc.