Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Dude. It's a fucking DNS problem like I already said. Here's what Jules said a couple of hours ago:
It's nothing uncommon.
is gearslutz down for anyone else?
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Dude. It's a fucking DNS problem like I already said. Here's what Jules said a couple of hours ago:
It's nothing uncommon.
FarBeyondMetal
Member
Somebody parked the porn BS on gearslutz most likely because they forgot to renew their domain name. Has nothing to do with a virus, so you my friend do not know what you are talking about 
FUCK I WAS TOO LATE BOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCK I WAS TOO LATE BOOOOOOOOOOO
SocialNumb
Damn Christians!
Checked my machine (just incase) and I'm clean. Yay.jpg Still see porn though.
I also checked the other 4 machines, one of which has a clean install. Still porn.
I also checked the other 4 machines, one of which has a clean install. Still porn.
Mutant
I hate that supercow !
If it is a DNS problem and from the symptoms it looks like it is - entering the IP number of the site server instead of the domain name should give you the site without any problems.
Mutant
I hate that supercow !
SocialNumb
Damn Christians!
amarshism
Member
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Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Again, you can change your DNS server if yours hasn't been updated yet. Here's how you do it on a Mac:
http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_mac.shtml
http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_mac.shtml
Raise your hand if you wanted to smack Guitarguru throughout this entire thread as he kept insisting the entire world has a virus, even after Gearslutz themselves admitted to the problem being on their end.
jipchen
ForesterStudio
Wisheraser
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Uros
Sonic Incision
Hi Ultimate Metal peeps!
Sorry for being off-line on Thurs 1st March!
What happened?
Gearslutz changed web hosts back in June 2011 and the migration went well. During this migration an error was made when the nameservers were configured. One of the nameservers was misspelled and under normal circumstances this would have not caused any issues other than slightly less resilience in the DNS infrastructure.
On 1 March 2012 a hacker noticed this domain exploit and registered the misspelled domain name. They used this domain typo to redirect approximately 1/3rd of visitors to a "branded" web page that makes money off page clicks. Our web host corrected the misspelling as soon as it was identified at 7am GMT.
Why was this not resolved sooner?
The hacker used a domain name with a time to live (TTL) of one day. This TTL means that any forum users who were redirects to this branded web page would have it cached for 24 hours.
Was I hacked?
The aim of this hack was to make money from the hyper link clicks rather than compromise end users PCs and Macs. But to be on the safe side the techs at our server company scanned the web page - and confirmed no viruses or snide scripts. Your computer is clean!
Will this happen again?
No. The changes we've made are permanent and will stop this from happening again. We will also be moving our domain registration to our web hosting provider so any future updates will be handled automatically to prevent any further typos.
The end result was a typo over a year old caused the site to be inaccessible for 1/3rd of its visitors and boring wait until the DNS propagated.
Sorry for the interruption in service!
if you are still getting the bogus site here is a link that tells you how to flush your DNS http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-flush-dns.html
Thanks
Jules
GS Admin
Sorry for being off-line on Thurs 1st March!
What happened?
Gearslutz changed web hosts back in June 2011 and the migration went well. During this migration an error was made when the nameservers were configured. One of the nameservers was misspelled and under normal circumstances this would have not caused any issues other than slightly less resilience in the DNS infrastructure.
On 1 March 2012 a hacker noticed this domain exploit and registered the misspelled domain name. They used this domain typo to redirect approximately 1/3rd of visitors to a "branded" web page that makes money off page clicks. Our web host corrected the misspelling as soon as it was identified at 7am GMT.
Why was this not resolved sooner?
The hacker used a domain name with a time to live (TTL) of one day. This TTL means that any forum users who were redirects to this branded web page would have it cached for 24 hours.
Was I hacked?
The aim of this hack was to make money from the hyper link clicks rather than compromise end users PCs and Macs. But to be on the safe side the techs at our server company scanned the web page - and confirmed no viruses or snide scripts. Your computer is clean!
Will this happen again?
No. The changes we've made are permanent and will stop this from happening again. We will also be moving our domain registration to our web hosting provider so any future updates will be handled automatically to prevent any further typos.
The end result was a typo over a year old caused the site to be inaccessible for 1/3rd of its visitors and boring wait until the DNS propagated.
Sorry for the interruption in service!
if you are still getting the bogus site here is a link that tells you how to flush your DNS http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-flush-dns.html
Thanks
Jules
GS Admin
