(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Suivant les news sur Announcements de puppy,
l'utilistaeur bear est peut-être un bot ou un mal-faisant...
précaution avec l'utilisateur bear.
il est intervenu sur la discussion "modifs forum" hier.

maddox

Je ne condamnerais pas le Bear comme bot juste encore. Subsistance vérifiant l'autre fil.

Ok Sir Duncan
I will wait for some news about the "bear" ,
btw "bear" is lower-case unless something has changed ?
but still, caution is the word !
strange X-mas present he/they sent to Puppy on the 25th of dec.

traduction, En attendant des news, l'utilisateur bear est en attente

maddox

I capitalized it because it is a name, but given that it is lower-case in his posts it could be lower-case as well.

Now that I read it in English, the article before his name does sound odd. I admit that I am not a good French speaker. In fact, my vocabulary is very poor without my French-English dictionary (which does nothing for my conjugation).

I agree that caution should be taken with anyone who seems suspicious.

no probs SirDuncan,
and thanks for your intervention
will keep an eye on bear...
your french is great, don't worry
thanks a lot & I'm off to bed

traduc
merci SirDuncan pour l'info à propos de "bear"
soyons vigilant à propos de "bear"
bonsoir
maddox

@SirDuncan
his post here is rather odd -and off the topic: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=15
to me this is really bot-like

That post seems to me to be just a confused person who can't recognize French when he sees it and didn't think to leave leave alone what he doesn't understand.

Some of his posts are definitely bot-like, but some are directly on topic and could not have been a bot as they demonstrated knowledge of the subject. One theory being discussed on the other thread is that it was a legitimate account that has been hacked and is being used by a bot. Given the odd mix of human and bot-like posting, this seems likely to me. Another theory is that it is a hacker who is using a bot on the account part of the time.

hi SirDuncan,
thanks for your reporting... there are many one time users who register
and never post... but I suppose john & the squad are researching this as a possibility
will stay carefull here
what happened to puppy . ca his s i t e affected ?
spaces between letters on purpose

thanks

maddox wrote:what happened to puppy . ca his s i t e affected ?

If it was affected (Caneri has stated that he was attacked, but I don't think he said whether the attacks were successful), it has been taken care of. I just surfed there and the only script running is google-analytics (Google's ad script, I believe, used for making the site money).

Les précautions sont toujours d'actualité..
phpBB et wordpress ont des failles.
Toutou semble être à l'abri, cela ne concerne que les progs forum et serveurs.

The post precautions are still current,
some forum progs have loop-holes that are used for attacks.

Puppy Toutou seem safe for the moment, keep our fingers crossed.

regards,
maddox