Protector Auto Ban

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

An IP was banned ealier today and I'm not sure why, other than to think one or two of these keywords forced it to:

postt22943.html&highlight=weblinks+hash

That is one example from the pages visited. Another highlight term was 'union'.

I removed the ban. It was a single IP, but banned twice.

Ideas?

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:51 pm

ZX, that happen on my website all the time. Protector was banning everyone. Maybe it had something to do with keyword searches. Although, members were being banned left & right for whatever reason, as I stated in the first post you wrote.

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Interesting... That needs to be checked.

Support Mod Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 245

Checked in next release Very Happy

AS it is now will it ban any code that contains UNION as that is the common term hacker uses ....

Also remember to enable Mail Admin then will you get a more specifik mail whit info Why the user is banned... Next release will also put that info on the banned page. Well next release have alot more feature and fixes Wink

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

The emails I got from protector had a Forums link with 'highlight=union', and it thought it was an attempt on admin.php. This is a bug.

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 195

Secondly I also noticed if you ban an AOL user anyone else on Aol also gets Auto Banned is there a fix for this .. becuase it is truly anoying to the members as well as the staff..

We banned an Aol user and anyone else coming in on AOL seems to be auto banned by protector it bans them and then it starts to ban anyone else on AOL ..

Weird ...

XtraX Rolling Eyes

Support Mod Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 245

Zhen-Xjell wrote:

The emails I got from protector had a Forums link with 'highlight=union', and it thought it was an attempt on admin.php. This is a bug.

As i said it's fixed in next release

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Thanks...

Lieutenant Joined: Aug 23, 2003 Posts: 195

Ok Mister but is there away to stop it from Auto Banning and Just let the user that is banned from not accessing the Site ...

XtraX

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Check includes/blocker.php and search on 'UNION'. I changed it from "or" to "&&" for the meantime.

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:23 am

You should look for something like "union(.{1,3})select" instead.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:53 am

Mister;

I imagine you are busy as ever with the new release. But I have an emergency and I would appreciate it if you could help me install Protector on my portal. I tried installing it but for some reason it just won't do. Can you or anyobne here please help?

Another question would be, a more or less when you think the next version will come out.

Thanks

PS. you can reach me at my e-mail x@zonaxbox.com

Sergeant Joined: Feb 04, 2004 Posts: 100

Hi, sorry if this is a lame question but from a complete innocent point of view, why are people trying to hack into nuke sites or any site for that matter? Is it mostly email harvesting or is it just to see if they can or for malicious reasons.

Thanks in advance

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:56 pm

bigtree wrote:

Hi, sorry if this is a lame question but from a complete innocent point of view, why are people trying to hack into nuke sites or any site for that matter? Is it mostly email harvesting or is it just to see if they can or for malicious reasons.

Thanks in advance

Most of the time they are just unwanted visitors. I think that if anyone were to hack a phpnuke site I would start on the server not the site...

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:11 pm

XtraX wrote:

Secondly I also noticed if you ban an AOL user anyone else on Aol also gets Auto Banned is there a fix for this .. becuase it is truly anoying to the members as well as the staff..

We banned an Aol user and anyone else coming in on AOL seems to be auto banned by protector it bans them and then it starts to ban anyone else on AOL ..

Weird ...

XtraX Rolling Eyes

At last a mod with some artificial intelligence!

AOL software is the worst pile of c**p ever to be foisted on the public. It goes far beyond anything Microsoft have ever done. It's intrusive, hard to get rid of, installs itself all over your pc, leaves remnants even if you uninstall it, and spies on your browsing habits. That's besides the amount of targetted ads they fling at you. Oh and did i mention they throttle back connections that use too much bandwidth for their liking? pretty much rules out reliable internet gaming. And they charge as much as regular ISP's. I wouldn't touch AOL with a barge-pole.

Let me know how you auto-banned AOL users, i think i might implement this on my site, lol.

Rolling Eyes