Sometimes You Just Hate Being Right
Apr 2nd, 2008 by pyra
If I may quote myself from Dec 17th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=98600#98600
I also say again — what if the wiki was the one serving up the trojaned ads. People here would be pissed because they were the primary target. If the wiki infected 100,000 people, would everyone still be complaining about a 3rd party site? I can guarantee this thread would have a totally different tone.
From Dec 14th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=97522#97522
I’m wondering if the responses would be different if the posters on this board were the primary targets. While there are a good number of people who have a lot of experience, many (most?) of the people who post here don’t even have 1 lvl 75 job yet. The BG forums were crying for blood because the sites they visit were attacked.
What if the wiki were the primary target and half the people who use it were infected? I’d bet that the posters here would be screaming for blood. According to the stats, that’s about 200,000 people who could have had their accounts stolen (which is btwn 25 and 40% of the entire player base). Its very easy to take the high-and-mighty stance when neither you nor anyone you know had their account stolen.
From Dec 12th 2007
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?p=96895#96895
You’ll find that people have very short memories, and while everyone is in paranoid mode right now, in a couple weeks the virus scanners will be turned off because it slows down the computer.
Then get ready for round 2.
I wish I wasn’t right.
From Apr 1st 2008 (not April Fools Joke)
http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewtopic.php?t=10476
Ganiman Says:
This afternoon the FFXIclopedia forums were infected with a Real Player exploit (the same exploit other FFXI sites were infected with a few weeks ago). The exploit has been removed from the forums with the help of the FFXIclopedia admins and the Wikia admins.
I’ll go back to my corner now and hide while my “Just in case” virus scan finishes. It takes me around 3 hours to do a full scan, even though it runs every night at about 4am. I’m starting to get tired of all of the virus scares. There are many other things I’d rather do in my spare time than run every scan I’ve got just to be sure.
Since the next attack vector will probably be out of date blog and forum software — everyone who hosts their own should do their best to keep everything up to date. If you do not feel like you can handle updating your own software and plugins, please use one of the many free (or pay) hosts. WordPress, Blogspot, LiveJournal, etc are all good, free, places to host your blog. Or, DreamHost (a web host, and the one I use) has an option with WordPress to let them handle maintaining the files.
-pyra