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Internet => Interesting Websites => Topic started by: postie on March 03, 2011, 07:02:50 PM
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I see DSL Zone has been down for a couple of days I wonder if this is the final nail in the coffin now.No response from James again to clarify whats going on.
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Hey Postie. Had a good few chats with you on DSL Zone in the past. Haven't been on it for yonks though, James just seemed to give up on it.
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Hey up mate ;D Don't know whats going on with it now,if he has shut it down or not,shame as it used to be a good site.
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Yeah, shame when a good site goes to pot. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kitz and DSL Zone had a good rapport between them as well.
Wonder if izools will make the leap over here ?? That geezer does know his stuff. ???
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Izools site has closed I noticed.
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Hey up mate ;D Don't know whats going on with it now,if he has shut it down or not,shame as it used to be a good site.
Yes it did until James gave up on the site and failed to keep up with basic security updates, etc, resulting in me getting infected.
I've not visited for around 12 months because of this.
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Hi Mike,I suppose all good things come to an end.It wasn't the same when all you guys left either.
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Domain Tools tells the story .............
DslZone.co.uk is for sale
The owner of the domain you are researching has it listed for sale.
Buy DslZone.co.uk now >
IP Address:
208.73.214.9 Reverse-IP | Ping | DNS Lookup | Traceroute
ASN:
AS33626
IP Location:
- California - Los Angeles - Oversee.net
Domain Status:
Registered And Parked Or Redirected
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Domain Tools tells the story .............
DslZone.co.uk is for sale
The owner of the domain you are researching has it listed for sale.
Buy DslZone.co.uk now >
IP Address:
208.73.214.9 Reverse-IP | Ping | DNS Lookup | Traceroute
ASN:
AS33626
IP Location:
- California - Los Angeles - Oversee.net
Domain Status:
Registered And Parked Or Redirected
Different Domain mate this one is dslzoneuk.net, not DSLZone.co.uk
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Domain Tools tells the story .............
DslZone.co.uk is for sale
The owner of the domain you are researching has it listed for sale.
Buy DslZone.co.uk now >
IP Address:
208.73.214.9 Reverse-IP | Ping | DNS Lookup | Traceroute
ASN:
AS33626
IP Location:
- California - Los Angeles - Oversee.net
Domain Status:
Registered And Parked Or Redirected
Oops, that's what comes of posting too early in the morning, oddly that domain is No.1 on Google, I just clicked it and checked the record.
Different Domain mate this one is dslzoneuk.net, not DSLZone.co.uk
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Hey up mate ;D Don't know whats going on with it now,if he has shut it down or not,shame as it used to be a good site.
Yes it did until James gave up on the site and failed to keep up with basic security updates, etc, resulting in me getting infected.
I've not visited for around 12 months because of this.
Likewise.
Its a shame because it was a good site until the security issues.
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Oh well....a real shame that, some good peeps on there...and I'd almost upped my star rank too ;)
hope the rest of the good guys end up on here instead, be a shame to lose the knowledge-base :(
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Flamin 'ell, also lost about 3 years worth of speedtest history through my meteoric rise from <1meg to 6+ :no:
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Had a message back from James,
" Hi mate
Sorry. No, something happened to the server it was hosted on and it was affecting other sites on there so had to temporarily block access to it.
It will be back up shortly and I'll monitor it
James "
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Hi Mike,I suppose all good things come to an end.It wasn't the same when all you guys left either.
Thanks mate ;)
I missed you lot too !
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Had a message back from James,
" Hi mate
Sorry. No, something happened to the server it was hosted on and it was affecting other sites on there so had to temporarily block access to it.
It will be back up shortly and I'll monitor it
James "
Good news for you and I just hope James finds the time to maintain DSL Zone with security updates unlike before.
I know he's busy running ADSL24 :)
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UncleUB and GunJack.
I think you may have used different usernames over there as I don't recognise you, mind you, it could be my memory :D
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Wasn't there a Gunjack over there :-\
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Uncle UB doesn't ring a bell, but Gun Jack kinda does ??
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great minds eh Postie ?? ;D
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Oy you lot !! As far as I've seen there's only one GJ here, there, and some other forums about the place ;)
I'm me and I'm me everywhere :P
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p.s. I've bumped into izools over on MSE, wonder if he'll make it over here...
will message him and suggest it if I do so again :)
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Tell izools they was asking where he and jake have gone on dslbuddy.net
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I'll pop in and say hello after postie pointed me to here. It's been many moons since I visited DSLZone but I've seen most of you posting on other BB related boards.
I finally deserted ADSL and went to cable in April last year. It's a different world with different problems and only one provider.
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Damn ..... dslbuddy !! I became a member when 'Snadge' first got the site up and running, but haven't been back for months. I must make the effort as Snadge is a great guy. :)
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Uncle UB doesn't ring a bell, but Gun Jack kinda does ??
I was under the name.........Ray-Von 8)
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Aha ..... I do indeed remember you sir. ;D
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Aha ..... I do indeed remember you sir. ;D
Sir :silly: 8)
Sir UB does have a nice ring to it. :D
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Hey ... go for it Sir UB. ;D <slowly backs away with head bowed icon> ;D
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I'll pop in and say hello after postie pointed me to here. It's been many moons since I visited DSLZone but I've seen most of you posting on other BB related boards.
I finally deserted ADSL and went to cable in April last year. It's a different world with different problems and only one provider.
Hi kwikbreaks.
Nice to see you again.
I'm curious as to what your problems on cable were !?
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Uncle UB doesn't ring a bell, but Gun Jack kinda does ??
I was under the name.........Ray-Von 8)
Now I remember you ;D
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Uncle UB doesn't ring a bell, but Gun Jack kinda does ??
I was under the name.........Ray-Von 8)
Now I remember you ;D
Ah I remember you as well now lol
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Dslzone is Back
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Hi
Is it secure?
Regards Jeff
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Hi
Is it secure?
Regards Jeff
Who knows? >:D
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Server is back but don't think James knows yet :-X
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Anymore junkies er...... sorry ex Dsl zoners here? :lol:
Wheres Widmerpool???????????? >:D
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Anymore junkies er...... sorry ex Dsl zoners here? :lol:
Wheres Widmerpool???????????? >:D
All present and correct sir!!
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postie, sent izools a message via MSE forum about him pitching up here or DSLBuddy.
Job done :)
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28 th Nov 2012,
the DSLzone forum went down finally ? about a week back . no reason given ,
but it had a lot of spam problems recently ,Milos@ admin was fighting a loosing battle alone ,
all contact with James has failed ,
so I guess it's RIP dslzone ,
anyway good to remember my Kitz log in, I took a chance on password LOL ,
I always wondered where you guys disappeared to,
I think I was a member of the zone from about 2007 , about the same time I registered on
TMNet forum USA , still there as the lone Brit and getting slagged off on every off topic post I make ,
it's a cruelty free form of bear baiting ,they are so easy to wind up :D,
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28 th Nov 2012,
the DSLzone forum went down finally ? about a week back . no reason given ,
but it had a lot of spam problems recently ,Milos@ admin was fighting a loosing battle alone ,
all contact with James has failed ,
so I guess it's RIP dslzone ,
I've just had a look and it's not only the forums, but the whole site appears to be offline. :-\
I can understand the problem with spammers, particularly since the bots can get around most captchas... Even recaptcha has been cracked, so it's a constant war trying to use a combination of various methods to try and keep them out. :(
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Shame DSL Zone has completely died. I started my 'career' on that site, before moving to Kitz. :o
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...but weve been here before havent we :-\ , when the site came alive last time he promised changes , updates and new stuff ... but nothing happened and now its gone down again, I just dont think he has the time to commit too it and neither will he pass the keys too someone else, shame as it was a good website.
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I can understand the problem with spammers, particularly since the bots can get around most captchas... Even recaptcha has been cracked, so it's a constant war trying to use a combination of various methods to try and keep them out. :(
Crikey I would have thought that those captchas, recaptchas, etc were difficult to crack and quite an effective anti-spam measure.
Surprising that !
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Shame DSL Zone has completely died. I started my 'career' on that site, before moving to Kitz. :o
Yes it's a shame but I moved on to other forums ages ago.
I hardly miss it now ;D
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...but weve been here before havent we :-\ , when the site came alive last time he promised changes , updates and new stuff ... but nothing happened and now its gone down again, I just dont think he has the time to commit too it and neither will he pass the keys too someone else, shame as it was a good website.
Yeah I would have persevered with the (annoying) password reset hassle if the changes and updates had come about if only to see what they looked like but alas it wasn't to be.
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...
For the past few days Ive been receiving porn/viagra type spam on the email account I used to sign up dslzone with.
Anyone else seeing the same?
Its a specific email address and not used elsewhere, that address can only have been disclosed via the dslzone server.
Has it been hacked (again)! ::)
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Crikey I would have thought that those captchas, recaptchas, etc were difficult to crack and quite an effective anti-spam measure.
Surprising that !
Unfortunately not since re-captcha was cracked.
I have to use several different layers of defence. The captcha is only 1 of about 6 layers in use on these forums - and its probably the least effective. Theres still one or two manual spammers that get through, but you cant really do much about those, but touch wood they are very rare compared to the large amount that are caught by one of the other means.
The war for automated bots is constantly ongoing on both sides :(
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Further to the above, thought you might like a sneak peak of an indication of spammers that could have got through this forum if I relied on just the captcha.
All the following have tried to register in the past few hours and actually got through a captcha test, but then gone on to be caught by one of the other methods I use. So yep spamming of forums is big business :(
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...
For the past few days Ive been receiving porn/viagra type spam on the email account I used to sign up dslzone with.
Anyone else seeing the same?
Its a specific email address and not used elsewhere, that address can only have been disclosed via the dslzone server.
Has it been hacked (again)! ::)
It wouldn't surprise me as security is not kept up to date or never used to be.
I used my o2 email address to register with DSL Zone and now you come to mention it I have been having a lot more viagra spam lately :(
Fortunately it goes straight into my junk email folder but even so it's a nuisance.
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Further to the above, thought you might like a sneak peak of an indication of spammers that could have got through this forum if I relied on just the captcha.
All the following have tried to register in the past few hours and actually got through a captcha test, but then gone on to be caught by one of the other methods I use. So yep spamming of forums is big business :(
Now I see what you mean by how ineffective captcha is.
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...
For the past few days Ive been receiving porn/viagra type spam on the email account I used to sign up dslzone with.
Anyone else seeing the same?
Its a specific email address and not used elsewhere, that address can only have been disclosed via the dslzone server.
Has it been hacked (again)! ::)
I just had 2 more spam emails through - one from Cicily Stumpo and the other from Linocln Higonnet.
Do these (alias) names keep coming up in your spam ?
As I'm curious, I just noticed that the destination email address is nothing like mine apart from it beginning with the same letter as mine and ending in @o2.co.uk
How does this work?
I went into properties and I checked thoroughly and there was no mention of my proper email address.
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Neither of those names particulary ring a bell, but atm Im on a mobile device which is only set up for my personal email. There were a couple that I binned last night, TBH I didnt really look at them other than to delete them, but iirc one was for lubricants (unfortunately not the liquid type :drink:) and the other was something like the girl looking for a male with a clicky linky type of thing, I didnt look at the name.
As regards the destination, your email address was possibly in the bcc field, it should however be visible if you view the full email headers.
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As regards the destination, your email address was possibly in the bcc field, it should however be visible if you view the full email headers.
I don't know how to do that in Windows Mail.
I just used Properties, not to worry :)
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>> atm Im on a mobile device
Now on the PC, todays dslzone spam is back to viagra type of thing - example:-
"Get your erectile dysfunction tablets in generic or name brand at our drugstore." sender was hcxilxb@morelux.info
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According to Milo (Milos1000) James is having server problems and hopes to get it back online...
For the past few days Ive been receiving porn/viagra type spam on the email account I used to sign up dslzone with.
Anyone else seeing the same?
Its a specific email address and not used elsewhere, that address can only have been disclosed via the dslzone server.
Has it been hacked (again)! ::)
The past month or two when it last went down, thats when I changed my address. I just knew it was going to go down.
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Just to mention DSLzone UK is back up again ??? (18th Feb 2013 ) :o
must admit never had any spam linked to the zone , :no: ,
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Crikey I would have thought that those captchas, recaptchas, etc were difficult to crack and quite an effective anti-spam measure.
Surprising that !
Unfortunately not since re-captcha was cracked.
I have to use several different layers of defence. The captcha is only 1 of about 6 layers in use on these forums - and its probably the least effective. Theres still one or two manual spammers that get through, but you cant really do much about those, but touch wood they are very rare compared to the large amount that are caught by one of the other means.
The war for automated bots is constantly ongoing on both sides :(
captcha in my view is aweful.
bots get by it, like yourself I see its effectiveness is minimal.
But at worst it stops humans completely, I have had sites where I failed captchas 20 times in a row so give up, at best it annoys the human but they get by it.
Sadly captcha is spread like a plague so many sites use it.