Re: Geocities.....

I've had a reply now from the person whose File Manager I inadvertently
entered and she told me that it has happened to her before and it turned
out to be ISP related. It has happened to her before on Tripod and the
idiot that got in there posted a heap of porn on her site :(

I'm now waiting to speak with my ISP to check it out further...hmmm it gets
more interesting by the minute :) 

Kym




At 01:25 AM 02/14/2000 -0600, Larry Bell wrote:
>Hi all.My first time writing to the group. I have had problems with
>geocities as well. Every once in awhile when I check up on my site I find a
>few of my pages missing some html codes or it wouldn't save my pages after I
>have added something to it.  Who knows!!!!!
>:)
>Larry
>ICQ#30978567
>Visit my Enya Page
>http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Bluffs/1604/midi.html
>My GuestBook
>http://neptune.guestworld.com/wgb/wgbsign.dbm?owner=enyasbook
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kym Jones" <kjones(at)adam.com.au>
>To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
>Sent: February 14, 2000 5:19 PM
>Subject: Geocities.....
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hi guys...
>>
>> Well, I have just had a most er..."interesting" experience.
>>
>> I signed into Geocities to upload a new site and it accepted my signon
>name
>> and password just fine, along with all the usual welcome stuff.
>>
>> I went into File Manager and proceeded to start the upload process but
>> nothing would upload...luckily!!
>> Scrolling back to the top of the screen, I find that I am in a total
>> strangers File Manager!!!!
>>
>> Unable to believe my eyeballs, I signed out and started again....the same
>> thing happened. I have tracked down the email address of the other person
>> and sent them a note. Interesting that they too are in Australia. Our
>names
>> and email addresses are nothing alike except that we both use the same
>ISP.
>>
>> Looks like the hacking of Yahoo over the last week or so may have had an
>> even greater effect than suspected. Who's getting into my File Manager now
>> ? ....I have no idea.  I have emailed them pointing out my particular
>> problem but I'm not holding my breath waiting for a reply.
>>
>> Moral of the story. If you have stuff on Yahoo/Geocities, be warned, that
>> your File Manager is probably wide open to anyone.
>>
>> Kym
>>
>>
>>
>>
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