About 25 times already I have come to this website and been screamed at by an annoying voice that comes out of the speaker saying, “Congratulations! You Won!” On the screen is a flashing neon message declaring “YOU ARE THE 100,000th VISITOR. CLICK HERE FOR YOUR REWARD”
I had no intention of being in Las Vegas (which is Spanish for “Lost Keester”). I am only a low power radio man with 100mW and a 10-footer.
How many others have been the 100,000th Visitor? What did you win?
NO SCRIPT
Already No Script App for Firefox is installed and never again will I be the 100,000th Visitor. Never before had I heard of No Script App, and so much appreciate being told about it.
I say we put RFB on a paid retainer. The only question is whether part15.us can afford it.
No BS
I learned about the no script plug in’s for browsers from one of the show hosts of a program my station airs during an episode where he was informing listeners about his site with a link that went to a credible web site at one point, but then suddenly out of nowhere, the actual direction of where that link took you ended up being a very BAD destination.
Bad as in the site that the link took you to still had the credible look and back links and information etc, but it was a created duplicate of the original good site with a touch of special spicing.
A hidden script that disguised itself as a simple request for statistic purposes parked a rootkit into unprotected computers, meant to sit there and wait for the user to hit another web site elsewhere that was also a duplicate fake, which would again park another piece of the whole onto the system, and so on and so on..eventually depositing a variety of things into your computer such as key loggers, screen readers and administration level access to your computer, making all that so called protected info available to the infohackers who created the whole mess.
Just have to be very careful and aware of things. Even if it seems ridiculous or not possible, does not mean so.
In adding, the no script plug in’s are configurable so you can have a safe list of sites and reject all the other BS.
RFB
Now Wondering
You’ve got me wondering if I’m getting the real part15.us website. This is where I kept being the 100,000th Visitor, and I also frequently get a warning pop-up from Avast saying “Malicious Malware has been blocked,” and the site I get that on is right here.
How can I verify this is the real part15.us?
Verify
“How can I verify this is the real part15.us?”
Don’t have an answer for that because all the basic checks one could do to attempt validating a site or domain doesn’t tell you if its “BAMF’ed” or not.
BAMF: A term used by early network developers in universities meaning to “re-direct” to a false destination.
But the additional problem is that threats are not always the fault of the site or site owners or hosts. It can be from something on the site unknown to even the owners and hosts, such as an advertising banner or link or java script or php code or a ton of other stuff that sneaks its way in into normal “good” content traffic.
It’s the Wild West Web, always keep that in mind.
RFB
Bit Thief
This is a good place to bring up a Java script that showed up on my shoutcast stream which was not a radio listener, and in private e-mail RFB said that the type of intrusion was showing up “all over the web,” and advised writing a ban script to block the i.p. it was coming from.
I actually got three visits from the same i.p. number, only it didn’t always trace to the same location. Two times it was from Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, but one time it was from Israel.
I did some more back tracking and found that the type intrusion is a type of open source script that can be found on the internet called “Bit Thief.” I’m not real certain what it does, but I think it steals computing time on thousands of computers all over the web so that their activities cannot actually be traced to an originating location.
Wild west for sure.
More Hands/PC’s Make Less Work
Ya that is a spin off concept from the now defunct “At Home SETI” stuff. That program basically spread the workload of monitoring frequencies being scanned by radio telescopes of SETI across a mass of computers. The program demonstrated that its possible to execute a function that would require a heaping amount of CPU warp power and turn it into tiny collections of Borg like extensions, reducing the workload but increasing efficiency of the function.
Worked beautifully too.
But this other crap, is not seeking out new life and new civilizations.
RFB
Having Trouble
The No Script App is not allowing me to update my own website. I can log into it, but before I get to the section I need to work with I get an infinite loop where it keeps loading again and again.
Insert swear word here.
Specify Your Intentions
Sounds like you have to configure the no script plug in to allow whatever it is you have on your website to pass through.
Sounds to me like its doing its job. 🙂
It could be the code for an embedded player or if your site has any java code you know is to be safe, the plug in is simply protecting you from any potential threats.
Simply visit your own website and when the no script fires up, you can bring up its menu from the bottom and select the safe code or embedded things as ok. Should be fine after that.
RFB
No-Script
I highly advise you install a no script app for your browser.
Every time those pop up’s show themselves, you are wide open to viruses and trojans.
And sometimes when you click to close those pop ups or click on the banners to satisfy the curiosity, you did nothing more than just send out your IP address and ISP provider info and location and potentially have rootkits parked onto your system, sleepers so to speak, to come and ruin your day down the road when you least expect it.
It is the oldest trick in the book. Do not be surprised later on that suddenly out of the blue, another pop up window shows itself saying “your system is infected!! Click here now to fix it!”, which that too is fake.
Marketing scams take place in all shapes and sizes..and in all forms of electronic media.
Be aware of what site your on, what is on that site and where the links take you. It is easy to create a wolf in sheep clothing.
RFB
Got Through
Your instructions worked much better than the EAN Test. I updated my website and am back to normal living.
By the way, the thing has a big Whitelist of sites that are allowed to execute scripts. Many of those sites I don’t use nor know anything about. Should I trust the fact the Mozilla knows best?
Instinct
“Should I trust the fact the Mozilla knows best?”
Is it a fact that Mozilla knows best? I sometimes put my instincts first as to what would know best for me.
I doubt Mozilla has any intent on causing headache, but even IE after 16 years still has update after update to find and close all those incredible amount of security holes that just seem to always be there all the time.
RFB