Something funny going on.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:45 pm

Every time I take a peek at Talk Polwell today I get the following message, complete with entry bars for Username and Password:

"A username and password are being requested by http://img101.photolava.com. The site says: "Password Required""

Is anyone else seeing this ?

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:50 pm

Yes.

I'm doing a clean now to see if I can clear it.

Malware ant-Malware and then Spybot Search and Destroy.

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:51 pm

Yes, I was for a while. Not for a few minutes though.

No way I'm gonna click on that thing. Smells like a phishing lure to me.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:52 pm

Yeah. Gone now for me too.

Tom Ligon · Post by **Tom Ligon** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:03 pm

It's baaack.

CaptainBeowulf · Post by **CaptainBeowulf** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:07 pm

I was just browsing the forums, saw nothing odd, then I read this thread and it appeared... psychic spam!

Josh Cryer · Post by **Josh Cryer** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:30 am

It may have had something to do with someones avatar (assuming it's turned on, I haven't seen any avatars here at all). I see no references to that website in several phpBB code samples I took (that is served to my computer as HTML, I mean). If there was a spammer they may have linked that website. It looks like that website is notorious for singling that error on images hosted there (going by a cursory google search), so there's doubtless an image hosted on this site somewhere that triggered it.

In any case I recommend upgrading to phpBB3, as phpBB2 is no longer maintained, even if this was just a glitch.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:39 am

I just disabled an image link that Kiteman put up in the design forum. (you can see when by my post there).

Maybe that fixed it.

May I suggest any one wanting to put up images should get them hosted at a reputable site rather than hot linking them.

Josh Cryer · Post by **Josh Cryer** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:57 am

He was linking wikipedia which is reputable (for certain values of reputable; put it this way, they aren't going to hack you!). Most wiki images have thumbnails, however, and he could have used one of those. But yeah, I agree that using a large image is not very nice (which is one reason I didn't inline that Darwin Zero image in the AGW thread, many people seemed to have missed it unfortunately).

In any case, photolava seems to be a crappy site, so I'd suggest www.tinypic.com for others here.

I wish I saw the culprit though, I hate bugs like that which seem to magically go away.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:19 am

For me it only shows up when I open the "Investing in Solar Sector" topic in this forum. I suspect the picture in the ~5th posting that doesn't show up is demanding a sign-on.

By the way, I saw the dialog box before I posted the wiki-imag, so I doubt that was the issue.

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:37 am

Remeber, Nigerian bankers are not as generous as they claim.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:39 am

KitemanSA wrote:For me it only shows up when I open the "Investing in Solar Sector" topic in this forum. I suspect the picture in the ~5th posting that doesn't show up is demanding a sign-on.

By the way, I saw the dialog box before I posted the wiki-imag, so I doubt that was the issue.

I just deleted the img tag on that and it seems to be fixed.

Thanks!

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:02 pm

MSimon wrote: I just deleted the img tag on that and it seems to be fixed.

Thanks!

De nada. Just my attempt to make things better for the group.

MSimon · Post by **MSimon** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:48 am

KitemanSA wrote:
MSimon wrote: I just deleted the img tag on that and it seems to be fixed.

Thanks!
De nada. Just my attempt to make things better for the group. :)

Joe thanks you too. He was glad he didn't have to attend to it. He was busy anyway.