Back up and running
 

Everyonewho tried to access the CF or a number of other AFU forums between the evening of May 18th and the evening of May 19th know that there was a technicalerror with the forum itself. The forum underwent emergency maintenance and is now back online due to the hasty workof the AFU Tech staff. [/align]It is unclear what caused the error, but AFU is probably working hard to prevent it happening again.[/align]

RE: Back up and running
 

i wonder if someone "hacked" it brent lol

RE: Back up and running
 

Who knows?;). Patrick didn't even know what the deal was.

RE: Back up and running
 

I tried twice yesterday to get on and gave up. Glad its back up, now I have something to do.:D

RE: Back up and running
 

There was what looked like somesort of hack injection. An advertisement was reloading itself so quickly that I was here for about 30 seconds and it filled up around 250mb worth of internet explorer cache. I don't remember the exact name of the domain is was downloading the script from but these are getting fairly common around the net. I had to deal with something similiar at work.

To be exact I think it may be what is called an "SQL Injection". To further educate yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxiYaflV-g

RE: Back up and running
 

wow shows how much i know about the internet lmao, well deffinatly makes me wonder now.

RE: Back up and running
 

Thanks markofthebeast. I'll have to clear my cache. No telling how much it has slowed my computer down. I run Avant now. IE and Opera mess up too bad and I don't like Firefox. Avant has a more expanded cache than IE.
Jeremy probably hit the nail on the head with his hacker speculation ;)

RE: Back up and running
 

Yep markofthebeast is right, it was a form of injection. I think the layman term is script injection. I knew as soon as I saw it that we would be down for a while until it got all cleaned up.

RE: Back up and running
 

I consider the CF lucky to be up this quick. Many of the AFU forums are still down. Must have been an extremely malicious cyberattack against AFU.

RE: Back up and running
 

Yeah, sounds like something Brett would do............[sm=bustedsign.gif] lol