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Otsikko: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: DollBaby - maaliskuu 10, 2008, 06:24:07 IP
We get visitors on our site with this indicated in the Who's Oline page.
What does this mean?
"Nothing, or Nothing you can see."

http://www.meowworld.com/forum/index.php?action=forum

We have been hacked in the past and try to keep a close watch on bots and proxies.

Thanks for the best forums software in the world.  ;D
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: CmptrWz - maaliskuu 10, 2008, 06:25:23 IP
Either you don't have access to what they are looking at (doubtful, if you are an admin) or they are doing something that does not generate a proper Who's Online string.
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: vbgamer45 - maaliskuu 10, 2008, 08:34:18 IP
That means that a certain action=customaction usually from a modification is not defined for the who's online page which causes that default text to appear.
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: DollBaby - maaliskuu 11, 2008, 11:04:34 IP
Thanks ;D
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: SA™ - maaliskuu 14, 2008, 06:37:53 IP
there is a trick for this in the tips and trick board its called show unknown action to admin or somthing like that
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: NickC - maaliskuu 15, 2008, 08:36:27 AP
Having looked at my logs to see what is happening, I think this is Russian spammers trying to hack sites to insert advertising pages. My forum is constantly being hit by them, but so far they haven't succeeded.

There is a feature about this practice on Planitax:

http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk/03092007/nec-group-website-hacked-by-russian-spammers/ (http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk/03092007/nec-group-website-hacked-by-russian-spammers/)
Otsikko: Re: Nothing, or Nothing you can see.
Kirjoitti: metallica48423 - maaliskuu 15, 2008, 11:31:47 IP
SMF is generally not susceptible to RFI attacks such as this, since we go to great lengths to ensure the integrity of the data passed to the files is secure and proper