The site's been down since late last night and over at Whirlpool people are saying the site was hacked thru the banner ads.

Anyone confirm this? Sucks having one less forum to visit.

Yeah down for me as well.

qgl is still up!

it got haxed yesterday
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1330492
http://ocau.blogspot.com/

I got an email from them saying they thought their servers had been compromised and told me to visit ocau forums & change my password just in case.

edit: that whirlpool thread said a bunch of people got redirected to some site that infects your computer with s***, add that to my other computer weirdness I've been scanning like crazy lately and I find it rather hilarious that a bunch of antivirus/antimalware programs detect "cogslan.dll" from cogs/the arena as a backdoor trojan. I'm pretty sure it's not a trojan because even if I delete cogs & reinstall it it still picks it up unless whoever wrote cogs put a virus in it.

NAAAAAAAAAATS!!!!

last edited by whoop at 23:20:09 28/Nov/09

yeah what whoop said, but that was before this latest e-drama.

I guess I should actually change my password when it get's back online

I'm more worried about them getting my email address than my ocau password. I'm definitely ignoring every email I get from this point onwards to that email account since it's probably going to be a virus.

. I'm pretty sure it's not a trojan because even if I delete cogs & reinstall it it still picks it up unless whoever wrote cogs put a virus in it.

It's not; the AVG guys told me they'd actually safe-listed it a couple weeks ago. Regardless, cogslan.dll has been removed from the latest version of COGS so it's not an issue any more.

this happened a week ago - google flash banner ad virii are the new black so it's not really too surprising...

that must be an interesting thing to deal with eh. how do you tell the hand that feeds you that you have to pull their ads until they clean up their act?

so pretty much any site with ads is going to be able to infect PC's?

how do you tell the hand that feeds you that you have to pull their ads until they clean up their act?

You don't tell them, you just pull their ads and then inform authorities about their malicious ways?

"hurry the f*** up and fix it before I sue you for punitive damages"

What's up with OCAU?

Don't you mean, "What's down with OCAU?" LOL

I'm enjoying reading the whirlpool forums about it all. So many people with an opinion with no clue yet it's not stopping them from sharing it. I do enjoy a chuckle when I see someone say they are safe cause they surf on a Mac.

^^ I saw that post too and then another guy on a mac said he got infected by it as well just a few posts later. haw haw haw

I'm safe though because I browse the net through lynx

I just wonder if Agg had an IDS/IPS setup for security. Be nice to look at the event stream for any attacks that hit it. Although with the Gumblar worm, your website would get compromised when your desktop PC goes to the dodgy site and steals FTP credentials. No real breach to the web server, worm owner just logs in as you and uploads new html/php/asp with links to his malware to infect more people. No IDS will see that as suspicious but tripwire and other file system monitoring should see the change.

Good thing about these worm and malware authors. They are terrible at compromising websites, leave so many tracks behind and most of their backdoors stick out like dogs balls. On your desktop they can usually install all their crap pretty quietly and have it hide pretty damned well.

Mind you I would imagine that given ocau user base that there would be many an individual capable of a counter attack. Which could be amusing.

I really hope that agg gets his arse into high gear and gets it up and running again. Because if I have to read another page of geekzone or worse still overclockers.co.nz or atomic then I may commit bloody murder

last edited by HerbalLizard at 09:39:26 30/Nov/09

Just don't f***ing buy anything from there or you may end up losing $1700

SO I'VE HEARD

Dirty nigerian tv scammers

Yeah I tried to change my password but I can't log back in after I reset it. Thankfully I rarely ever use the email address I register with them so...

f*** me... it's still down


man I hope Agg doesn't end up pulling a Gooseman

I am starting to have withdrawals *twitch

It'll be back, I am sure it's too much of a cash cow for him to chuck it in

chucking it in would be so much more...



hope he pulls through this

I am starting to have withdrawals *twitch

I was waiting for replies to a question too :(.

Wondering if anyone has raided 2 SSD's and can tell me the performance over time. Supposedly the trim command isn't used in raided scenarios.

man I was trying to buy an exercise bike in the classifieds

im also in withdrawl...

o well, next OCD

Supposedly the trim command isn't used in raided scenarios.

Correct and someone on ocau posted a f***ing link too :-(

:(


still down

What i dont get is why someone would allow their site to be down for so long? Even if the forums are haxored, fine. Removed ads from the website template anda at least get the website back up. f*** even a better updated news page then the current 'its down' page would be fine.

my guess: they have nfi how the were hacked and they don't want to get re-pwned again.

Its back

aaaah..

/me throws away the methadone

man I was trying to buy an exercise bike in the classifieds

hah

And Agg offers up no details on what happened or what was done, just the same old bulls*** smokescreen 'were in a better position now'. Sigh. Really thought he would have let people know what he did etc so that we might all learn from this.

hopefully this means you will be f***ing off back to ocau now?

Neg old timer. Sticking around to watch your shiney bald head try and sound amusing some more.

e-fight!

And Agg offers up no details on what happened or what was done, just the same old bulls*** smokescreen 'were in a better position now'. Sigh. Really thought he would have let people know what he did etc so that we might all learn from this.

it's almost like he's running a free service and he doesn't feel like he owes people an explanation

Ahh, the ole false sense of entitlement people these days so much know & love!

i heard a rumour that agg is a pedo and he got busted for using ocau as a front for distributing child porn. he's now in prison, but his twin brother is turning to get the site back up for the true ocau fans. explains the 'were in a better position now' comment.

it's almost like he's running a free service and he doesn't feel like he owes people an explanation

Yeah... just like the free service you Ausgamers guys run... on wait thats right you get kickbacks left right and center in terms of software, hardware and sponsorship to whatever you want. Thats hardly consider 'no profit' to me.

its still a free service you retard.

again with the bumbling and babbling

Yeah... just like the free service you Ausgamers guys run... on wait thats right you get kickbacks left right and center in terms of software, hardware and sponsorship to whatever you want. Thats hardly consider 'no profit' to me.

haha

funny, funny stuff

plz ban him

yeah i think the obvious point you retards perposly didnt acknowldge is that while these amazinly caring giving people run a 'free' website its obvious they get things in return and benefit it in ways that while it might not have been self motivated at the start, most certainly is now.

yeah i think the obvious point you retards perposly didnt acknowldge is that while these amazinly caring giving people run a 'free' website its obvious they get things in return and benefit it in ways that while it might not have been self motivated at the start, most certainly is now.

what's that got to do with anything? It doesn't change the fact that it's a free service and you're not entitled to any information that OCAU doesn't feel like handing out.

so does that mean you hate the yellow pages, free to air tv, southern star paper and any other service that offers something for free and gets money for it?

software, hardware and sponsorship to whatever you want

hahah, cheap computer parts and discount games

the ultimate temptation, how could anyone resist the siren call?

i hate ausgamers too, they should just do it for no reason at all except to offer a free service for people who are entitled to everything for nothing instead of trying to create and run a service that pays its own way.

last edited by ara at 00:48:17 11/Dec/09

ahhh lol

*puts on tin foil hat*

The bastards what a f***ing cheek offering a free service and s***, how f***ing dare they its criminal utterly criminal that they don't explain themselves while sitting on mountains of phat sponsor loot and driving hummers.

Hey retard its FREE AS IN BEER

Yeah... just like the free service you Ausgamers guys run... on wait thats right you get kickbacks left right and center in terms of software, hardware and sponsorship to whatever you want. Thats hardly consider 'no profit' to me.

It should be noted for the record that the only "kickbacks" we get are things to review,99.999% of which are games . We buy all our own hardware, OS software, etc. Pretty much every cent goes into running and expanding it.

I wouldn't mind if Ausgamers is receiving hookers and blow as kickbacks so long as the comedy contained within this thread keeps on coming. :D

i would pay to read a hooker's review of a game.

I would pay to read a hookers review of trog

Midget hookers or Disabled Hookers?

I would voltuneer to review the hookers and blow

I really don't care if ausgamers went for profit assuming they could keep up their current standards. But the truth is i think they'd feel like the quality would go down if they did go for profit. At least quality to the audience.

Though i don't really know what they think.