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Offline lemonoman

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Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« on: November 20, 2007, 11:30:53 PM »
I guess we have no jurisdiction in China, but I thought I'd point out (for curiosity's sake) that lots of ChemicalForums posts have been swiped and uploaded onto Chinese servers, onto pages that have malicious code on them.

For example, if you google my username:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=lemonoman&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

Don't click the links...they've got malicious code!

Just throwing this out there.  Have a good day. haha

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Re: Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2007, 02:55:10 AM »
These links simply don't work now - they display either 404 or "No web site is configured at this address."
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Re: Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2007, 01:25:34 AM »
How odd.
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Re: Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2007, 01:57:44 PM »
I dont know for sure but what they probably were used for was browser hijacking. Sending cross-site and mysql injection requests to different websites.

We were getting hundreds of pages of these in the error logs every week. Most are stopped now at the server level using mod-rewrite. Now they dont even make a call to the index.php file. Saving much bandwidth and cpu usage.

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Re: Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2008, 01:40:31 PM »
out of curiosity, would "malicious codes" affect mac users?
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Re: Stolen ChemicalForums Content
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2008, 03:35:21 PM »
out of curiosity, would "malicious codes" affect mac users?

Most likely not, as these things are mainly addressed at Windows/IE users.
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