moneymarketing wrote on 29
th Oct, 2019 at 3:54pm:
This is looking like a DDOS attack to me. The number of hits on the referral contest has actually dropped yet I can only click on one or two pages when I can log in. This is a new problem that could wreck the site potential (It always seems to be something with these sites
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Maybe you could talk to him SS as to whether or not it is a DDOS. I wouldn't know what questions to ask
One thing I've also noticed is that I can't access any of the pages where programs are posted. I wonder if this has to do with the potential exploit you were talking about a while back?
Well.. if it was a DDoS attack it would prevent any access to the site.. not just some pages.
So, there must be something wrong with the banner pages.. and what's more wrong is that we're allowed to enter anything in the banner fields..
By anything I mean links, images.. but also javascript code which can do a lot of things to ruin a site.. or even code disguised as images and executed when attempting to load the image.
They could even inject btc mining scripts.. though antivirus messages would pop up instantly, plus we would notice the overall increase in our system load, so it's most likely not that..
What could also break a site's loading time is images that are no longer accessible.. but that would allow the page to load and just let the images appear broken, so it's also not that.
Something else that causes infinite loading times is forgetting to break a loop.. that's a programming issue in case they recently changed something in the site's code and accidentally created this bug.. I kind of doubt that too.. it's not the kind of site that gets updated often..
So, my best shot would be that somebody injected something through the banner fields..