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Cannot open the Movies & Television forum. Repeated attempts only open a full-page ad for New York Life.

EDIT: Strange. Immediately after posting the above, now I can view the forum.
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And as if by magic, all the annoying Ads have disappeared. On my home computer, on my work laptop, and my phone. And I have done nothing to them.

So all these posts about it being user error, you don't know how to configure your browser, you should use Internet Explorer 3.0? I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so.
 
Well AK framework is much better. The steroid effect on the adverts has definitely abated. Thanks to the admins.

EDIT: Side note; I would be very careful with advert blocking software (especially add-ons to browsers) for spyware. I mean most adverts are spyware (IP, computer OS / model, personal info is scraped) data.......the fix could be worse than the solution.
 
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Thought everything was fixed, all looked good— Then spent time with a post, and was not able to succed with the post and low and behold, Blue up and down arrows at the lower right then a lower grey box once again …

So sad, guess I will give it another month before my return …

Be well, my best to all,

My sincere guess it is an ad thing seeing as this is being taken care of by “ ad professionals”

Ho hum, I’m outta here again…
Celadon

Back just to say it took me logging out, and logging in again to post the above.

What about reverting to the prevoius trouble free version …
I sure hate to give up on my fave place…

Sorry Grumpy and Ms … sucks to deal with this misfortune
 
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Same blue up down arrows w/ this edit to previous post..
Not sticking around for the other errors …
 
Hi Celadon, sorry about the trouble. Audiokarma was hit with a massive DDoS attack over the weekend, and our team had to put some aggressive security measures in place to protect the site. Those measures are what caused the issues you were seeing, the blue arrows, grey boxes, and difficulty posting. The good news is the attack has been blocked and those protections have been turned off. The site should be back to normal now.
 
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Hi Celadon, sorry about the trouble. Audiokarma was hit with a massive DDoS attack over the weekend.
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Is there a way that you can tell where the denial of service attacks are coming from? Is there a software tracker for the origin of the IP addresses?

I know how frustrating this situation is. Even Blizzard Entertainment, which has dealt with DDoS for over 25 years, gets stumped somtimes.

Thanks for all the effort! :thumbsup:
 
Short answer: Yes, there are ways to identify where DDoS attacks originate, but it's complicated because attackers deliberately obscure their origins.

Most modern DDoS attacks use botnets. Thousands of compromised devices (computers, IoT devices, etc.) spread across the globe. So the IPs you see aren't really the "attacker", they're victims whose machines were hijacked. You might see traffic coming from 50 countries simultaneously. The actual person orchestrating the attack is hidden behind all of that.
 
Advally said:
Short answer: Yes, there are ways to identify where DDoS attacks originate, but it's complicated because attackers deliberately obscure their origins.

Most modern DDoS attacks use botnets. Thousands of compromised devices (computers, IoT devices, etc.) spread across the globe. So the IPs you see aren't really the "attacker", they're victims whose machines were hijacked. You might see traffic coming from 50 countries simultaneously. The actual person orchestrating the attack is hidden behind all of that.
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So clever! Too bad that "smarts" couldn't be put to better use.

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@Advally
Thanks for the heads up, still blue up/ down arrows @ Lower right corner but seems much better than the last time I was here, appreciate the help— as this is the best audio forum bar none; and sure would miss it…

Keep up the good work, and if it’s just those silly arrows and not affecting anything further, I can live with that. The grey interfering bar at lower seems to be gone!

My best,
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