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False Google search is better than IPS, especially due to dorks.

I read that Germany uses DNS level blocking for domains. For Viz, I'm not sure which property they were trying to block but possibly Dragon Ball. Even an ISP I used to use would use first-line DNS to redirect some sites to the ISP's homepage, primarily file-sharing sites IIRC.

If you had any experience with enterprise level infosec, my statement would make perfect sense. To note that I (personally) have an understanding of the execution chain in theory but this is not confirmed. It would be foolish for me to provide that information as if it were valid, and an exploit exists, it could allow malign actors to take action against the site. If you had any experience in running a website, you would know that you never make public anything that could potentially allow someone to exploit the site. The site is sometimes redirecting to a new url now, a 98m4. User Agent may play a role, but changing the user agent in Palemoon (where I am typing from) to the one that Iron uses (where the redirect happens) doesn't cause the redirect to occur in Palemoon. I suspect that I know the reason for that, however since that information could be linked to an exploit, that won't be shared.

First find whether or not the errors being reported are actually the correct errors. A lot of times, Windows will show an error when a condition is blocked, but that doesn't necessarily mean the error text shown is accurate. For example, you can get a disk space error if a process that is attempting to write to disk gets interrupted or blocked because Windows doesn't actually run a secondary check on whether or not there is free space. All it knows is that it tried to write and could not, so it presumes there is no space. You could run into the same issue here. But since you are looking at Paged Pool Memory, you do have the ability to check to see whether or not this is actually exhausted and if so, what is using it. BUT for this you need to use Kernel Debugging with WinDbg. I can't find a download for the version that would work on XP using google! but the Windows Software Development Kit for Windows 7 would at least work. Then this would be a start: https://gemini.google.com/share/adaf5e6e2c36 But windbg is not an easy program to use, you'll end up having to do a lot of research before you can actually know what you are looking at. An LLM would be able to help, but of course they make mistakes in interpretation just like people do. yes/no. Some parts of the registry are compressed on disk, and on OS load, they are expanded into RAM. Then they only exist in RAM at that point. You can probably research which portions are like this, but you can get some hints when using regedit when you run across either parts that are read-only or parts that if you change them, do not survive a reboot.

There is more information about this issue that is not being shared for confidentiality reasons. There's no shade being directed with a statement like that. This isn't a client issue but if people do happen to find ways (like @NojusK did) or other specific software + versions, it is good to post that here. According to Xper, the issue doesn't seem to be with the server itself, rather likely with some other piece of infrastructure somewhere between the client and server. The issue remains, I've had to change browsers to visit the site.

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Stop fighting against people who are trying to provide information! The issue has been seen in Discord Preview, some search engine results, Some versions of Supremium and one version of Iron so far. Posting user agents that are affected are OK but I have a thought that it isn't user agent based. On my Iron install where the redirect happens, I have this user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Iron Safari/537.36 If I change my user agent in Chrome to that using the Network Conditions option in DevTools, the redirect doesn't occur. I verify that Chrome is using the Iron UA via whatsmyuseragent.com The thing in common is that all browsers are using an older Chromium engine. I do not think that it is a client issue per se.

Happens with Iron 109 on Win7, not Chrome 109 on Win7. Doesn't happen with Iron 135 on Win 10.

At least 3 people have the issue, including myself. It only happens on Iron (on win 7 but not Win 10), not Firefox or Chrome for me. I don't know what triggers it, I don't know how to intercept that.

Confirmed and reported

My primary system for general browsing is still on Windows 7, so that may not be correct. The three browsers I am running surely cannot be anywhere close to being modern by this point: Iron 109.0.5550.0 Chrome 109.0.5414.120 Firefox 115.32.0esr (this one actually does still update actually)

No, this makes things difficult for a server admin. Another site I admin on can often see bot swarms at levels that exhaust server resources (database specifically) and will make the site slow. So I've had to pull the access.log a couple of times and run it through an analyzer tool to find out just how these bots appear. The "good" ones, bots operated by legitimate (although some people may disagree) corporations, have user agents or other identifying information that they send along with their HTTP GET requests. These are bots like search engine spiders and AIs. The Western world bots from Microsoft, Amazon, XAI, etc are all identifyable and more importantly do not tend to bombard sites likely because a lot of information is already cached in datacenters. The corporate bots from SEA have user agents but tend to send way too many requests. The issue is tied between the SEA AI bots and the "unknown" variety that can be determined to be from an AI or LLM setup *somewhere* but they send no information along to the web server. So when 6,000 bots decide to hit the server at some point, 5% are legit western origin, 45% are legit eastern origin and the rest are the unidentified. Of course, many of the unidentified are not actual mysteries, but you can't determine that just from the logs. You'd have to research IP addresses, ports, GET strings, etc and it can be figured out. But this takes an incredible amount of time to not only research, keep up to date and set block/control lists on the server that using a go-between that already has most of this information tracked is very compelling. Especially since Cloudflare has a free option that many sites can use, this is likely why you end up seeing it used so much. All Cloudflare is, basically a software firewall that sits between a website and the user. Cloudflare shows different things to different browsers, browser settings (js enabled or not, etc) and based on perceived country or region of origin. There is also likely a difference between their free and paid version. I personally have not see any sort of captcha from Cloudflare in a long time, I only get a checkbox to prove I'm human.

I don't understand gambling much either. Just for fun I put your question into Gemini and this is an excerpt of what it responded.

Cloudflare is legit and MANY websites are forced to use it to deal with the huge issue of bots these days. The alternative is to dig through access logs and maintain a block list manually.

Process Explorer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer It is portable also. Manually using taskkill https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill

Reputation count doesn't mean anything, it is just a button to click if you want. The only times such a system actually works is when positive rep is tied to something meaningful, like a question/answer system or feedback on sales. Topic views being 0 is certainly a bug. That has never been a setting for any version of IPS or any other forum software I've ever used.

Forums are social media. Topic for this already exists:

Archives are third party sites, we have no control over them. GDPR only applies to EU citizens where GDPR is enacted in their home country. It doesn't apply to citizens of US or non-GDPR countries. The request has to be written in a certain way, according to the law, which I've read (as well as that dumb EU Copyright Directive). It has been done now so there is no reason to keep this thread open.

Responded with PM. Note that a request for account deletion specifically to remove attribution for privacy purposes is moot at this point. The site is archived to bejesus and back, so even if an action is taken to remove attribution, that information will still exist on other websites. Re laws and this forum, we are bound by the laws where the server is physically located and no others.

I'm not certain, but for some reason I believe that the Views is only increased when a registered member (aka not a guest) visits a thread. I may be wrong about that, I don't have another Invision forum to compare against. I know that on SMF, anyone (including guest) counts towards views.

Make sure you don't mean ReadyBoost. That was something introduced with Vista that let you use external (USB) drives for page file, but it never seemed to work very well.

Ref: https://msfn.org/board/forum/35-windows-20002003nt4/ There can be found (currently) multiple topics with replies but 0 views.

I'm down to one active computer using Windows 7, the one I am posting from. I do all of my daily driving with it and every site I need to use still works. My old Win7 is still connected but it stays off most of the time. That computer was the one that used to be my daily up until the end of June and was the one that I had posted about in the Uptime and HD Reliability threads.

Yes they are.

IMO the internet got 'bad' once 'normal' people found it. But I think that is more nostalgia for the most part. As for when that happened, I'd say (at least in the US) that happened once Classmates came around. Everyone who was in high school or college went onto there to keep touch afterwards. That site got stepped on by Facebook which was originally designed for college students, but became so popular that old people joined it to keep in touch with those who were on it. For the current generation that is moving into the world, Facebook is seen as a site for old people which is a quote I've heard from multiple people of the younger generations, an insight I am afforded since I 'moonlight' at an arcade. This is only my perspective on things, but normal/old people from 20 years ago were basically computer illiterate, and astonishingly, people of that same stereotype in the current day are still mostly computer illiterate despite having grown up in with computers in a fully connected world. Combine that with the mentality that corporations have of treating adults (employees) like children and you end up with web technologies designed to protect the computer illiterate but in a fashion doesn't feel like the correct way to do it. I find it amusing that the link to this article on the Guardian brings me to a page where half of it is covered by a blue privacy/cookie notification. But overall I think that there are certainly many good points about how the internet has evolved and it is actually better in many ways now than it used to be. It is certainly more useful, something I didn't really grasp because I never had a mobile phone that was new enough to do anything cool until just recently. I think it will get better and we will figure out how to evolve it to deal with the current issues it has. There are more eyes on it now than ever before and that means more ideas of how to do things will occur. But that doesn't mean that there won't be some new dumb trend that everyone adopts that we'll have to deal with. We may end up looking back and laugh about how we were all bent out of shape about captchas and cookie banners in the face of whatever annoying thing we'll be having to deal with.