ok here goes,been on scoobynet for 2years never had this problem before,last night i was browsing the boards for over an hour or so,then left for a while to return later on,to find when i clicked my shortcut in favorites i ended up at puff the magic wagons home page?.But the address was still for the BBS?i have cleared my history trails in AOL and in internet options,tried not using a shortcut ie type in the address manually,still comes up reinstalled AOL software still came up showing the bbs adress but PTMW home page wierd or what spoke to AOL online help they were unsure what i ment,so left it over night tried it the morning still the same,dinner time still the same,and tonight i just typed in

 

robert i had exactly the same prob last night about 11.30pm click on the bbs option and it just reloads the home page again so i don't think it's your computer as i use a g4 cube from apple with virgin as my isp.
weird or what!

 

Robert

I have had exactly the same problem this evening!
Don't know what the problem is but am using Freeserve not AOL, so can't see that reformating will cure the problem.
I'm sure that one of the more technicaly minded guys on this site will be able to point us in the right ditection.

Phil

 

Ah the infamous "Puff"

This happenned to someone else a few days ago.

Old Puff was very quiet........ but I think he knew something

Wait a while and he will surely post an answer.

 

Guys I was in chat at the time and SDB was in the middle of trying to sort the BBS out as there was a denial of service attack. He did shut the bbs down for a time.

He had it up and running quite quickly again.


Andy

 

Guys, Puffs site is hosted by Simon, and this may of been caused by the hacker (not confirmed. Puff was not hacking scoobynet! however someone was and is being traced.

Believe me, its frightening what you can trace on the net!

Ron

 

As Ronnie says - it is very frightening what you can find out on the web. I think there was a similar incident a few months ago. It is possible to redirect html pages without intervention from the user - if you know what you're doing and this does sound like what has happened. I'm sure Simon will explain once he got it fixed.

On a separate note, for your own protection, get yourself a personal firewall, especially if you frequent chat rooms - you'll be amazed at the amount of crap flying around on the Internet. Goto

 

Ronnie's hit the nail on the head

It used to happen rarely if the bbs was slow in reloading or under a lot of pressure &

 

Yes big green puff for me last night also 11pm,Working again ok now
Nice piccy puff!!!!!!

 

yeah mine seems ok as well now my browser has recovered it had my head in bits last night likr nice pic of the car from car artz,but once i had seen it 20 times it did wear off a tad,thanks fellas