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Exl I hate penis like vegetables.

Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Location: North of the fries, east of the wieners, west of the tea
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject: Latest STO Update - Another DDoS attack |
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Right now STO (SkullTag Online) has gotten a forced update, containing code to do another Denial of Service attack on the ZDaemon masterserver. Please REMOVE this upgrade from your computer as soon as possible. Everybody with this upgrade installed and (unknowingly) attacking the masterserver will be IP banned until further notice.
To clarify; this is not an attack by SkullTag, but rather by SkullTag Online. Please do NOT retaliate in any form whatsoever.
If you experience problems creating new accounts or otherwise logging in to the masterserver this is most likely the cause of the attack. Once again if you have the update installed please remove it.
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Edit: STO has been found not to be the cause of this, as you can read further down in Carnevil's reply to this topic.
Last edited by Exl on Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:18 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Da_maniaC Now with new lemon fresh scent!

Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1337
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Just to make things clear...
Who 'forced' this so called update?
Was it codeimp again? |
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Nestea Spamming!

Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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CheapAlert Spamming!

Joined: 28 Apr 2004
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Why hasn't carnevil ditched STO already?
codeimp should be forbidden and banned from everywhere, i'm switching to wadauthor/slade and that's not my loss |
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Admiral-Shakal Spamming!

Joined: 22 Aug 2004
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Forgive me for being naive but how do we know if we even have it? I dont recall downloading anything and I cant log on. If we do have it where can I locate it to delete it? |
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joshsmith Spamming!

Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Location: Africa
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:00 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I don't even have ST installed and I can't get in. |
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[n00b]Adereth Spamming!

Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Location: Oh god, what year is this?!
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Admiral-Shakal wrote: | | ...I cant log on. |
Carnevil took down STO to stop the nastiness. |
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joshsmith Spamming!

Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Location: Africa
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| My post was for ZDaemon, haha. Obviously I can't get in ST if I don't have it. |
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Admiral-Shakal Spamming!

Joined: 22 Aug 2004
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:08 am Post subject: |
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ya I was talking about zdaemon  |
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excelblue Spamming!

Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... forced updates. Sounds like software that you should never use. Seems like Windows to me.
I seriously wonder though, will Codeimp get removed from the ST dev team? |
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Baphomet has entered the game!
Joined: 19 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:01 am Post subject: |
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I don't think he was ever apart of the ST dev team, infact,
I belive ST doesn't have a dev team at all. I belive Codeimp is making "successful"
attempts through Skulltag Online is because STO
is based off of DC, which he is familiar with. |
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DoomGuy666 Spamming!

Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Location: Clan: UniDooM www.unidoom.org
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn, not once but twice. |
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MikeJones Dominating!

Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Location: Louisiana
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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hehe he needs basketball, football, or sex
curse u codeimp!!! |
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Fred512 Spamming!

Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Location: for Aiur lolz Posts: Eleventy
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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i say to hell with him and db  |
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joshsmith Spamming!

Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Location: Africa
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excelblue Spamming!

Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| joshsmith wrote: | | Well, as most probably know, you can use IDE to browse and join Zdaemon servers. |
It still queries the master just like zlauncher. Since the attack brings down the master than zlauncher, IDE wouldn't work either. |
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joshsmith Spamming!

Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Location: Africa
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Works for me. I can't even log in to ZDaemon, but I can play games with IDE. |
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Punaxe Spamming!

Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Location: the Netherlands Clan: [dp]
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| and, IDE keeps the server list from the last time it was fetched. |
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Carnevil has entered the game!

Joined: 11 Oct 2005
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Well, after a thorough investigation, Raider, Jippy, and I have concluded that this attack did NOT originate from Skulltag Online. The proof of this is that there are IPs involved in the attack of people who have NEVER EVEN DOWNLOADED STO... including RAIDER! (and it's safe to say Raider is not flooding the ZDaemon master server!) We believe that someone out there has found a way to trick the ZDaemon master server into thinking that incoming transmissions are originating from somewhere other than the real IP. After all, many IPs that had been flooding the master server had either never used STO, not used STO recently, or it was confirmed that they had no such "flood program" running.
Moreover, the rumor that this all started after users were forced to update STO is FALSE. The one user I know of (PFL) whose STO client downloaded an update, did so because his client was out of date; NOT because someone did something malicious with STO! Users downloading updates because their clients were out of date and the start of these attacks are pure coincidence.
Anyway, as Mark Twain said, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes". What's important is that we've gotten to the bottom of this, and that the truth is now out there.
If you have information on what was done, or who was doing this, please contact me or Raider immediately. We want to know who's been doing this, and we want it stopped.
(Oh yeah, and STO is back up and happily running ) |
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bond Dominating!

Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Location: Russia
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Well, at least there are positive moments in this sad story. Carnevil talk at ZDaemon forum, Raider - at Skulltag one, which is very good - I never could understand why these two comminities are so hostile to each other.
And ZDaemon itself become better covered from malicious attacks |
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