Inflated guest numbers

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:15 pm

If nobody noticed there was a huge influx of "visitors" overnight and this morning that pushed our total online at once number very high as well as the number of users on today.

This was due to a web worm rolling around the net that actually came out about a week ago. Luckily we weren't affected because of the update I put in last month, but the worm kept trying to infect the site.

A fix has now been put in place so the false "guests" are now gone.

yo mama · Post by **yo mama** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:20 pm

Luckily we weren't affected because of the update I put in last month, but the worm kept trying to infect the site.

The site was down for a little bit last night.

Post by **staubio** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:30 pm

So now we can't get all excited about our "most concurrent user" numbers anymore, since it'll talk a long time to beat the inflated number.

What was the old record? Election day?

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:31 pm

probably that worm hitting the ISP too hard.

I've put in the necessary code to just turn it away so it shouldn't affect performance.

Slappy the Wang · Post by **Slappy the Wang** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:20 pm

Soylent Green and Leawood John called me in the middle of the freaking night to ask about this. Did they call you as well?