HELP!! SUSPICIOUS GUEST ACTIVITY!

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Forum URL: warriorsseasons.proboards50.com

I am an administrator on this site, and it is my main hobby. It is a Roleplay site, and one of the BEST PLOTS I have seen in my life...

- It dissapeared today. Without a trace.

The guests have been being suspicious for a few days -- they stay online for long periods of time, and recently a few of our members have gotten viruses - but, the viruses are ALL THE SAME. I myself found a Trojan horse this morning. It's gone, but I think something is happening with guests. Our site is an extremely literate one, and a few members have gotten into fights and been deleted, therefore triggering hate for our website. We fear that it may be one of our ex-members, and most of all, we are /scared/ of guests.

God help our site - We are all freakin scared!!!

[Tylr]

wolven said:

Forum URL: warriorsseasons.proboards50.com

I am an administrator on this site, and it is my main hobby. It is a Roleplay site, and one of the BEST PLOTS I have seen in my life...

- It dissapeared today. Without a trace.

The guests have been being suspicious for a few days -- they stay online for long periods of time, and recently a few of our members have gotten viruses - but, the viruses are ALL THE SAME. I myself found a Trojan horse this morning. It's gone, but I think something is happening with guests. Our site is an extremely literate one, and a few members have gotten into fights and been deleted, therefore triggering hate for our website. We fear that it may be one of our ex-members, and most of all, we are /scared/ of guests.

God help our site - We are all freakin scared!!!

Calm down a bit, have you checked to see if the guests are googlebots? It would be impossible to transmit a virus through ProBoards.

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-sighs- Yeah, we've checked. They are all not googlebots, googlebots are there, like, all the time, aren't they? Right after the latest Proboards version was released, there was always the "Googlebot" name instead of an IP. Then they stopped appearing.

[Ms PiXie]

wolven said:

Forum URL: warriorsseasons.proboards50.com

I am an administrator on this site, and it is my main hobby. It is a Roleplay site, and one of the BEST PLOTS I have seen in my life...

- It dissapeared today. Without a trace.

The guests have been being suspicious for a few days -- they stay online for long periods of time, and recently a few of our members have gotten viruses - but, the viruses are ALL THE SAME. I myself found a Trojan horse this morning. It's gone, but I think something is happening with guests. Our site is an extremely literate one, and a few members have gotten into fights and been deleted, therefore triggering hate for our website. We fear that it may be one of our ex-members, and most of all, we are /scared/ of guests.

God help our site - We are all freakin scared!!!

just Relax Here are some Helpful safety tips click here
..and as stated before more then likely the guest are more then likey Googlebots.

[Ms PiXie]

wolven said:

-sighs- Yeah, we've checked. They are all not googlebots, googlebots are there, like, all the time, aren't they? Right after the latest Proboards version was released, there was always the "Googlebot" name instead of an IP. Then they stopped appearing.

thats because the proboards admin removed the googlebot names, they are still there.

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Yes, but IPs are THERE.

[frufru]

wolven said:

Yes, but IPs are THERE.

does the IP start with 66.249. something?

The admins made the bot hide a long time ago. Google has gotten more IPs for its bots lately.

[Tylr]

wolven said:

Yes, but IPs are THERE.

Did you trace them?

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Looked at them, looked if they were members and nothing came up. Not what you would call a "computer whiz" - Trace?

[Tylr]

wolven said:

Looked at them, looked if they were members and nothing came up. Not what you would call a "computer whiz" - Trace?

Either use a site or go Start > Run > tracert {Guest IP} and see what turns up.

[frufru]

wolven said:

Looked at them, looked if they were members and nothing came up. Not what you would call a "computer whiz" - Trace?

www.dnsstuff.com/

paste the IP in "WHOIS Lookup", 3rd one in 1st column

[Akiko]

frufru said:

wolven said:

Yes, but IPs are THERE.

does the IP start with 66.249. something?

Yes. I posted this on another thread, which someone can delete. I apologize for not looking this up first. =_=
Do you have any info on this?

[Snakeair]

akiko said:

frufru said:

does the IP start with 66.249. something?

Yes. I posted this on another thread, which someone can delete. I apologize for not looking this up first. =_=
Do you have any info on this?

That's just one of the googlebot's IP's. You can read up on googlebot's at this link. www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html

They are harmless and only collect information for the google search engine. Google bots are not humans and will not join/post on your forum.

[Akiko]

Ah, I see, thanks. ^^ We had no idea they weren't listed as Googlebots anymore. xD