what happened to all the columns by John Deakin's?

EAA... What can I tell you?
I even quit posting.
 
Tom-D said:
EAA... What can I tell you?
I even quit posting.
Click to expand...
Tom- I don't see the connection between EAA and the location of the articles. It seems they simply moved them within Avweb.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Tom- I don't see the connection between EAA and the location of the articles. It seems they simply moved them within Avweb.
Click to expand...
Avweb did a complete server change a couple of years back; my articles got moved and it took me a while to find them.

Ron Wanttaja
 
wanttaja said:
Avweb did a complete server change a couple of years back; my articles got moved and it took me a while to find them.

Ron Wanttaja
Click to expand...
I'm still confused; Avweb is associated with EAA?
 
JScarry said:
Try this link https://www.avweb.com/topics/features/avweb-classics/pelicans-perch/
Click to expand...

wanttaja said:
Avweb did a complete server change a couple of years back; my articles got moved and it took me a while to find them.

Ron Wanttaja
Click to expand...
Avweb suffered a malware attack that brought the site down, prompting the server upgrade. It took them months to get popular content like the Deakin's articles back up, but some of their older directory pages still have broken links.
 
Last edited:
NordicDave said:
Avweb suffered a malware attack that brought the site down, prompting the server upgrade. It took them months to get popular content like the Deakins articles back up, but some of their older directory pages still have broken links.
Click to expand...

Highly unlikely it was malware.

There aren’t enough words for how dumb that is.

Upgrading a server’s CMS because it was finally hacked, is 1990’s level garbage IT work.
 
NordicDave said:
Avweb suffered a malware attack that brought the site down, prompting the server upgrade. It took them months to get popular content like the Deakins articles back up, but some of their older directory pages still have broken links.
Click to expand...
Deakin, not Deakins.
 
denverpilot said:
Highly unlikely it was malware.

There aren’t enough words for how dumb that is.

Upgrading a server’s CMS because it was finally hacked, is 1990’s level garbage IT work.
Click to expand...

BTW, I spoke to Avweb directly about this; and the direct cause of their outage was malware, as their web implementation was not current with software security releases.
 
NordicDave said:
BTW, I spoke to Avweb directly about this; and the direct cause of their outage was malware, as their web implementation was not current with software security releases.
Click to expand...

It’s a definition problem. Malware isn’t the correct term for having a remotely exploitable crappy website. Malware is something you get on a user PC.

If your website is running on something that can catch malware, you’ve got bigger problems.

Like, get a real server OS, for starters.. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top