New Cwmbran CC Web Site

LizW1985

New member
Looks good, two of my friends are looking for a local club I'll suggest they check out your site  :)
 

ttxela

New member
Sorry chaps, I get the following message when clicking on the link;

High Risk Website Blocked




Location: cwmbran-caving-club.dnsd.info





Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.

Return to the page you were previously viewing.
 

TheBitterEnd

Well-known member
It's could just be becuase the site is being hosted behind a dynamic DNS - i.e. the server is probably at someone's home and becuase it does not have a static IP the DNS needs to update everytime the IP address changes.
 

graham

New member
Netcraft doesn't report any problems with the site; the risk rating is as low as you'd get with any new site. It doesn't seem to be hosted domestically, but not knowing the company name reported, I wouldn't know for sure.

The problem I had with it is that the survey index 'seems' to be showing onward links to individual surveys, but none of them work. For me, anyway.
 

Alkapton

Member
This is hosted on a home pc but it seems to have a static ip.

Nothing wrong with server.  very secure - running on linux:)

Unless you are a member you should not be able to see a link to cave surveys cause they are in the members area.
 

Alkapton

Member
AH I See what is happening ah um, ah this is an Adobe cock up, indexing wont work on web server.  I need to remove the links.
 

graham

New member
Alkapton said:
This is hosted on a home pc but it seems to have a static ip.

It'll be static right up to the moment you reboot your router. Then it'll change. 'Seems' doesn't enter into it 'cos most ISPs will charge you for a static address.
 

Alkapton

Member
I only say seems like static ip because the pc is not mine and I dont know the small print.  The pc and router in question used to be turned off every night till I put web site on pc, router has always had same ip even if left off for a week.

It is not common but some providers do ascribe static ip addresses - only reason to use dynamic is if you have more subscribers than addresses!!!
 

Alkapton

Member
The only reason why the site could get flagged as being doggy is that I use a second server for large files to improve download speed.

At present the only files hosted on the external server are for the flash animation on the default home page.

The site I'm using is well known for injecting adds and crap into html (and php) pages they host.
What I have done is safe because they cannot inject adds and crap into files on the main server.  All they do is inject stuff into a dummy index.html on their server which is not used by my site.

If this really is an issue for some users  I'll dump the external server, so please do report any problems of this nature.
 

Les W

Active member
Just a point on the members log in.
It says BCA Insurance number. Its only semantics but BCA doesn't sell insurance (it can't as it would need to be regulated by the FSA) so the number is actually the BCA membership number (the insurance is a membership benefit  (y) )
And as an after thought, insurance is spelt wrong  :tease:

Site looks good though, is this the one that needed 10 gig?
If so where is all the large stuff?
 

graham

New member
Les W said:
Site looks good though, is this the one that needed 10 gig?
If so where is all the large stuff?

10 gig? that's a lot. The UBSS site is currently up to 6.7 gig & I've been uploading quantities of quite big files (mainly pdf) to that for a long time now.
 

Alkapton

Member
I think at moment there is about 6G, mostly it hides in the members area.  But yes this is that site.  If you want to know whats there you will have to join the club ;-)
 

ttxela

New member
ttxela said:
zomjon said:
You've got a dodgy computer Alex, I got straight on.

A definite possibility!

It's strange - I spend quite a bit of time on t'internet and don't get this message anywhere else. Had a clear out this morning and reset everything and still get the same message  :unsure:
 

Alkapton

Member
ttxela - what are you using that blocks access to the site?  I have just looked at a couple on online url checker - they give mixed results.

I don't even like googles url checking - too nanny, too many false positives.  I do all virus, crapware checking client side.  Server side virus etc checking only makes sense if you are mail server and this server ain't one of those.

In a few hours I'll put flash animation back on main server to see if that makes a difference but I doubt it will.

php scripts are scripts that run on the web server that generate the html that you will actually download.

A html file cannot be a virus because there is no web browser that will let you run one.  The actual php is something you will never see - the server won't let you.

A virus could hide in an image file for instance.  But what fool executes an image file?
Normally a bad web host will inject crap into html page - including those generated by ie. php, so you get pop up adds etc.

The host I wanted to use for this site was one such.  I had a week of everything ok then pop ups started and then I'd become a soft porn site.  So site moved to its present home except I wanted the speed of the bad server and its unlimited web space for my larger files.  So I thought f%^k them, they mess with me so I'll mess with them.  Re-activated my account and uploaded just the flash files to test.  For a week all ok - then I lost access to the flash - they had blocked the site.  Turned out that was because I had no index.html or index.php there for them to corrupt, so I uploaded an index.html that is simply a re-direct to the real site and more than two months later all is well.

So you got full story, yes a really dogey site is involved but in this instance it does not take piss out of me - I take piss out of it - with no risk to my client pc's.
 

ttxela

New member
I'm using a works laptop with Sophos.

It seems to be Sophos thats blocking your site. I am no IT expert but generally this seems to work well, I have no problems with my usual web activity.

 

langcliffe

Well-known member
Alkapton said:
The host I wanted to use for this site was one such.  I had a week of everything ok then pop ups started and then I'd become a soft pr0n site.

Maybe it's enough for Sophos to see  that some of the files are hosted on the dodgy server.
 
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