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moshkito
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Posted: November 03 2022 at 07:40 |
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Try to get the current situations fixed correctly, including getting a https website update for better security. I have been at this for 30 plus years, and this site has something that most don't ... a FORUM. The other sites have resolved their time to do "podcasts" and so many of them are ridiculous and just an ego driven bunch of garbage, and does not meet any kind of "progressive" definition whatsoever. There are a lot of great folks here, and I do NOT have their personal email to ensure that we can continue communicating, but if this continues, it will start killing off folks that like to post here and enjoy the community at large. This site, has the best, and most informative of materials and (above all!!!!!!) THE HISTORY of so much of its work, and I do not wish to see it wasted. It's similar to my dad's library of Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish Literature, over 30K books, many of them not INDEXED anywhere (as of 1980's) and in the end ... it's all wasted, and no one cares in Lisbon (most of it was taken there and supposedly a memorial added with the library ... no doubt throwing away anything that wasn't "Portuguese". In the end, the sad thing is ... the history of the creativity and the work ... and somehow, it is difficult to not see it getting lost and above all ... forgotten, because you and I know the Internet has a very small "time" element for anything, not to mention songs! Please ... M@X ... we need this fixed correctly and the browsers stop talking about misdirects ... and if M@X is short of funds to do this right, let us know ... I can cough up a few dollars, but I cannot use PayPal, which for me has not been secure at all. BTW ... the reply function is busted still ...
Edited by moshkito - November 03 2022 at 08:03 |
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chopper
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Hmm, what's wrong with the reply function?
Edited by chopper - November 04 2022 at 05:56 |
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Nogbad_The_Bad
Forum & Site Admin Group RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20738 |
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Don't know.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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wiz_d_kidd
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 13 2018 Location: EllicottCityMD Status: Offline Points: 1420 |
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It's pretty clear M@X has turned his back on maintaining this website. The misdirects and retries are likely tied to a cross-site scripting hack that occurred back in July/Aug, and that I've posted extensively on in other PA threads. Here's a band aid fix that worked for me: 1) Install NoScript, a free extension/add-on for your browser. (I use it in Firefox). 2) Open NoScript and add the websites: "https://new2sportnews.com", and "https://advertising-cdn.com". 3) Mark them both as "Untrusted". This will disable any attempts to access those sites or run scripts there. You should see all the intrusion attempts, redirects, and retries disappear, while keeping PA accessible and usable in the usual fashion.
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moshkito
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Hi, It's working right now as you can see. However, what it was doing quite a few times was superimposing all kinds of characters and the area meant for a reply blocked/closed off. Sadly, I'm not a code knowledgeable person enough to specify more ... and hopefully this helps.
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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tigerfeet
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Here is a link to free SSL/TLS which would do wonders for this site.
https://letsencrypt.org/about/
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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams.
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M@X
Forum & Site Admin Group Co-founder, Admin & Webmaster Joined: January 29 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4028 |
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I am looking into this issue now.
I can't use the site and forums with CHROME ;-( |
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M@X
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I think I fixed this.
Posting this from Google Chrome, please report here if more related issues occurs. I will watch this thread for a while. Tx
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moshkito
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Hi, Thanks so much ... and now, in Chrome, it even specifies "Secure", which should help along the way. You are appreciated ... so you know ... and hopefully we can continue, and get better! A bit soon, but Happy Holidays!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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wiz_d_kidd
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Yay M@X!! Thank you! While we've got your attention, please look into why many pages on PA are executing a Java script at
https://new2sportnews.com. The script is highly obfuscated, and appears to invoke another script on https://advertising-cdn.com, which is down now, but when it was active, it attempted an intrusion on my PC. A cross-site scripting hack? |
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Atavachron
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Thanks brother -
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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M@X
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I think I managed to remove the unwanted script from new2sportnews.com , let me know
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wiz_d_kidd
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Hi Max, it looks like you've got the ones on the "Forums" and "FAQS" pages, but the "Prog Rock Guide" page still has over 20 of those script references -- at the end of each sub-genre description. That's all I've found so far (by searching the page source code for "sport"). Hopefully you can fix it so that future infections can't occur. Thank you, sincerely, for resolving this issue! Mark
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“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to ‘put down.'” – Bob Newhart
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M@X
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I cleaned up the PROG ROCK GUIDES of this script, thanks.
However I don't find the ones on the forums (FAQ,...) ? can you spot them for me if you can ? Please
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wiz_d_kidd
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Whatever you removed earlier seems to have cleaned up the Forums and FAQS pages. I no longer see them there. Just to be sure, I went to the internet Way Back Machine, and they had recorded the Forum page yesterday. That page still had the script, where "dropDownCalendar" is invoked... "<div id="dropDownCalendar" class="dropDownCalendar"><span id="showCalendar"></span></div><div align="center" style="margin:5px;"><br/><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221111112133js_/https://new2sportnews.com/progarchives.js"></script></div> <div align="center" style="margin:5px auto;text-align:center" id="topad"> <!-- ads here --> </div>" |
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“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to ‘put down.'” – Bob Newhart
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wiz_d_kidd
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The infection on the FAQ page was two places. One was identical to the Forum page (i.e. associated with the dropDownCalendar), and the other place was farther down... <span style="font-size:10px"><br/><br/>Edited by Andy Webb - April 08 2015 at 00:02</span> </div> <!-- End Member Post --> </td> </tr> <tr class="postSeparatorTableRow"> <td colspan="2" align="right"><a href="#top"><img src="/web/20221111112157im_/https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_images/back_to_top.png" alt="Back to Top" title="Back to Top"/></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="msgEvenTableSide"> <span class="msgSideProfile">Sponsored Links</span> </td> <td class="msgEvenTableRow" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><br/><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221111112157js_/https://new2sportnews.com/progarchives.js"></script> <br/><br/> </td> </tr> <tr class="postSeparatorTableRow"> <td colspan="2" align="right"><a href="#top"><img src="/web/20221111112157im_/https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_images/back_to_top.png" alt="Back to Top" title="Back to Top"/></a></td> </tr> </table> |
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wiz_d_kidd
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I don't understand how the perpetrator chose these odd locations.
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M@X
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^ Weird indeed.
Some of the malicious code was in the copyright check for the free forum software , I think WebWiz were infected . |
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wiz_d_kidd
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Yes, this version WebWiz is getting pretty old. Maybe they've improved their security in the last 8 years. Sounds like it's time for an update.
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“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to ‘put down.'” – Bob Newhart
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Sean Trane
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Hi M@X Posting from Firefox has become weird and unpleasant (Scripts & co) since you dabbled to accomodate the google users. |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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