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Security advice RE: [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] (not qb64.org)
FellippeHeitor:
We did manage to download a copy of the contents at some point, long before .net was down for good, but then Galleon came back and we thought we were safe again. But then it was all gone for good for real this time and all we're left with is whatever the spammers decided to put up online there. You shouldn't be trying to login there either, for the reasons outline above by Galleon himself.
davidshq:
I'm giving a Ruby program that allows one to download snapshots from The Wayback Machine a try. Looks like it is going to return almost 11k pages from the forums. Some of this will be from the current site, but most should be from earlier editions of the site.
Is there anything else I should pull down if the forums works out well?
FellippeHeitor:
We've been interested in preserving it for historical purposes. If code and attachments could be fetched, that'd be awesome - but given the way archive.org does its crawling, I have very low hopes.
davidshq:
Unfortunately, Fellippe, it looks like you are right. I was able to pull down some stuff from Internet Archive but not much.
One of the more curious things about the [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] site is that some links seem to work if you are referred by another site. So, if for example, you are referred to a [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] URL by Google, the page loads. But if you try to reload the same page directly at another time it won't load.
Anyone else able to verify this behavior?
If so, we could probably set our HTTP headers to manually refer to Google so it looks like we are coming from Google when we aren't and be able to crawl the pages...
If this is the case, it seems like perhaps the idea is to continue getting traffic from sites like Google but prevent individuals from actually using the site in any normal fashion.
bplus:
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Yes you come late to the party :)
Richard has all kinds of copies of stuff, he started flooding forum with posts:
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2670.0
See page 4 early June of Discussion Board look for long string of numbers in topics. If there is something particular you need, he might help.
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