A Brief Update: Stop Commenting

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 62 Comments

One of the personal sites that I also host on this web server (for my WoW guild) was hacked and its contents replaced with Russian viagra spam. Although this blog wasn’t affected, I’m going to be restoring the entire server from a backup prior to the attack to be safe, which means any comments made today will be lost. So, don’t make any.

On the other hand, comments made today will disappear, so go nuts! It’s like the old-school server backup wars in UO!

Edit: No rollback will be necessary. Carry on with the server war, though!

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  • Vetarnias

    Very well. I hearby announce that I am refraining from commenting on this blog.

  • Quain

    Those server wars were classic, I remember getting up at four one morning to tear down three houses in a crowded area to see if we could fit a tower there. The possibility that it would somehow save the removal of the houses but not the tower being set was terrifying.

  • sidereal

    Sounds like a SQL injection vulnerability.

    Unless you solve the vulnerability, it’s going to happen again when some bot randomly picks your IP address again.

  • http://www.brokentoys.org/ Scott Jennings

    Yeah, there are a few security holes that I’ll plug once the backup gets restored.

  • Bonedead

    Balls wiener balls balls. Butt. Balls dick butt. Wiener sandwich butt balls.

    /release

    edit– Dick wiener butt balls ass butt dick balls.

  • Vetarnias

    Getting hosted by Aventurine, Scott?

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    Of all the reasons I should stop commenting, that you’re about to restore a backup is one of the more benign ones.

  • http://www.bobsaget.com Beene

    What does this have to do with Shadowbane?

    fethers

  • Drey

    Restoring the server just to get rid of some spam proves this blog is carebear. ;)

  • http://rawrasaur.livejournal.com Rawrasaur

    Not sure if you saw it on the news yet, but Free Realms hit 2 million users. 12 days after they hit 1 million. Yeesh.

    –Rawr

  • Mordur

    My cats breath smells like cat food….

  • Vetarnias

    Beene :
    What does this have to do with Shadowbane?
    fethers

    Better still, what does Broken Toys have to do with Viagra?

    I mean, for anyone who isn’t Sigmund Freud?

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    Vetarnias :

    Beene :
    What does this have to do with Shadowbane?
    fethers

    Better still, what does Broken Toys have to do with Viagra?

    It probably gets some people up in the morning.

  • Njal

    fethers

    I am a mage.

  • Elrond Hubbard

    What Russian viagra spammers expect of you: To take your website hacking like a man!

  • Vetarnias

    And in preparation for this historic event, a YouTube video:

  • Vaxhacker

    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    DELETE FROM Users;
    COMMIT;

  • http://idempot.net/blog/ Matthew Weigel

    c’mon, vaxhacker, you don’t need a transaction for that! ;-)

  • War

    Scott Jennings :
    Yeah, there are a few security holes that I’ll plug once the backup gets restored.

    In Soviet Russia, security holes plug YOU!

  • Somedudepassingby

    Vetarnias :
    Better still, what does Broken Toys have to do with Viagra?

    Obviously, if your “toy” is “broken”, you need Viagra to get it working again.

  • Charles Ellis

    Oh man, I remember those server resets. At the time for some reason I didn’t realize what was actually going on, and being that it was so late and I would often find myself thinking about UO trying to sleep at night… it was a long time before I was sure if what I remembered happening was just a dream or not. All part of the mysterious wonder that comes with your first MMO experience I suppose.

  • http://viviannedraper.blogspot.com Vivianne Draper

    a comment is at steak!

  • Not Richard Garriott

    penis

  • Drakks

    Does this mean the post where I professed my undying man-crush to Lum, and told him about the shrine to him in my basement is NOT deleted?

  • Drey

    What, no rollback? Come on blues, what’s going on here, we were *promised* a rollback! Also, the hunter pets seeing through stealth bug still hasn’t been fixed and my warlock deserves a free talent respec because you changed a tooltip for one of his talents!

  • Vetarnias

    I want my posts duplicated nonetheless prior to an individual rollback, but only after I’ve handed the originals to a friend for safekeeping.

  • Andy O.

    @Rawrasaur I’ve been tinkering around in that game, for FREE, actually I have 3 FREE accounts that I AM NOT PAYING FOR!

    The game is fun as balls though, just playing the mini-games alone is fun as all get out.

    wait, no rollback? ignore the balls bit. I don’t think balls or “bits” have any place in a game like Free Realms. mwhaha.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    I did have a suspicion, “maybe Lum is doing this just to fool the monkeys into crapping their cage for the humorous amusement value of watching them having to endure what’s really going on inside of their little digestion tracts.”

    Which was awesome, so I played along with that gamble. ;)

    Of course, if that was never his intention, that is a popular enough game with fickle fate for me to still have an agency to blame.

  • Jeremy McNitt

    I think that’d be more than funny when he posts that he was able to restore just the parts affected, and that the comments here will remain for all the interwebs to see for years to come.

  • Gx1080

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.

    A single player game with a lot of minigames is catering to the lowest denominator in videogames.

    No wonder that it sells.

    Oh and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.

  • Gx1080

    I liked the Crafting and Diplomacy minigames in Vanguard, but i wasnt going to pay 15 buck a month for that. And i didnt like that all the races were: EverQuest copys and furrys.

  • sinij

    BRING BACK PRECASTING BIOTCHES! FETHERS!

  • sinij

    I also wanted to add that Lum hanging to his anti-PvP views in not alike abstinence sex education. PvP is in human nature that you simply cannot deny, your best bet is to prepare for it to best of your ability or it all ends up in tears.

    http://www.goat.cx/

  • Freakazoid

    i fill my socks with mustard and throw them out the window

  • Ajediday

    I was going to go on and on about how WoW is evil and causing these kind of things to happen. Instead I will whine about some other game and how the end game, while full of good ideas is missing one thing that makes it that could make it great: FUN! It just isn’t fun. I like lemons, I like limes, I like to rhyme most days. Mean while on another server farm, the golden key on how to merge things seems to have been lost (attacked by the layoff monster?) and people suffer and have to listen about other plans that will most likely cause more problems. If 12 million people do a stupid thing, is it still stupid?

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    UO servers coming down? Let’s all do the time warp!

  • Rackir

    Man,

    I remember those Daily downtime Fun Fests!!

    I also remember the One day the daily backup/downtime DIDNT happen!!

    Ah the weeks feeding a beggar to lose being red…
    Fun times !!

  • http://www.battlevortex.com William Purvis

    Taxi your way to victory!

  • http://lost-war.org Mist

    Darkfall = penis, and the only people who like penis are gays (except, of course, for straight females [who, of course, do not exist on the internet.])

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    If nothing else, it’s the closest we’ll get to Whamadoodles Online until desperate talentless hacks looking to be provocative decide to create a furry nazi version. (And it’ll sell like hotcakes and destroy its creators.)

  • Elbows

    GO FUCK YOURSELF FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

  • raevhen

    I like beans

  • Elrond Hubbard

    Once again, Lum is breaking his promises to the Broken Toys community. This is a slap in the face to all your loyal users that just want to read about Darkfall. You are literally Adolph Hitler.

  • Glen

    How do I comment?

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    History repeats.

  • Raad

    SINIJ LIESK TO STIEK IT IN BIG ANUS OLOLOLOLOL

  • Dr. Octagon

    I don’t actually want to see goatse today, so I won’t find a link to paste here. But I’ll be lazy and say, everyone type ‘goatse’ into google lol! Oh I love being nasty!

  • Lee Quillen

    IBTL!~

  • http://www.bobsaget.com Beene

    I think someone has dropped their glass of water on the floor.

  • Mox

    This was clearly a trap to see who’d draw ASCII cocks all over his blog.

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