AX84 comming to an end, TAG needs fixing real bad

[cbass]

I've been enjoying the political threads over there on MEF. Moonbat central
Lots of electronics knowledge for sure. A hippy athiest and a communist helped a devout hillbilly fix a SS amp

[Leo_Gnardo]

Lots of heavyweights at MEF for sure.

If there weren't enough already, the mighty Kevin O'Connor just showed up last week at MEF, pitching in a dozen posts a day more or less. London Power, power scaling, lots of expensive books on "how to do it just like me", he's the world's foremost expert. Why MEF has all of a sudden attracted his attention is beyond my understanding, but there he is. Anyone who wants can pitch him a question, or a shaving cream pie. Plenty of both already flying. Stop in and watch the Battle of the Titans, bring your own popcorn.

[dorrisant]

http://music-electronics-forum.com/users/3223/

[Bob S]

Superiority Complex comes to mind whenever I've been on MEF.
Lot of smart people.
And a lot of huge egos.

[Gainzilla]

Hey guys,

I haven't seen the red screen in about two weeks. Wondering if it with the latest iOS update though,as the timing lines up. Not sure why that would make a difference unless they relaxed security. Lol

In any case, it's been really nice using the site unencumbered by warnings over the last couple weeks. Can anyone confirm this or are we still seeing the red in the desktop browser?

Cheers!

[R.G.]

It's still there, as of this visit.

It ain't going to get fixed. The fellow who has the keys to the fixing has decided, either by directly or by default, not to fix it, or he does not have the ability to fix it.

In either case, the site is on autopilot. The plane is still flying, has some unknown amount of fuel in the tanks, but is just flying on its last heading, no matter where that is. At some point, it will fly into a mountain or the top of a big thunderstorm, or just run out of fuel. The pilot is not touching the controls.

The passengers are starting to ask questions.

[dorrisant]

Hey guys,

I haven't seen the red screen in about two weeks.

It is still there... using Chrome w/Windows 7

On another note... where did all of the signatures go? It is still there when you go to the page that allows profile editing but doesn't show up otherwise.

[jelle]

Its because TAG is being fixed.

Guess where the trouble was.... not on TAG.

[sluckey]

Chrome still shows the red warning screen on my computer. I know how to defeat the warning screen in Chrome but I'm not gonna start that discussion again. The only time I use Chrome is to check this site to see if it's been taken off the bad list.

I normally use IE11 with no warnings.

[lord preset]

In noticed that I am not getting browser warnings in Chrome or IOS Safari anymore. THis is good, but you still get a malware warning when trying to connect to TAG via a Google search. Not sure how one scenario could be fixed but not the other but I'll take that as progress even if newcomers to TAG are still getting scared off.

[JazzGuitarGimp]

Its because TAG is being fixed.

I hope you're right, but not holding me breath.... 😐

[martin manning]

I'm getting in with no warning after checking "warn when visiting a fraudulent website" in Safari. This has happened before, and then the warnings returned. Fingers crossed...

[Gainzilla]

Apologies for the silly question, but who owns TAG? Assuming someone had admin level access, couldn't the site be migrated to a new host on a fresh phpBB install? I might be willing/able to assist.

[jelle]

Allynmey is the owner.

[R.G.]

A quick scan back on the several pages of discussion about the warning will show that sometimes it disappears for a day or so, or to certain browsers, or to certain other mysterious conditions. I'm still getting red screens today. No big surprise.

To quickly repeat some of my earlier posts: there was a bout of malware on the server that hosts TAG, back in early 2015. We have been told this was fixed, and that TAG itself didn't have malware. No one is known to get malware from TAG - yet.

Google provides searches by automatically scanning all of the web it can, and running the results through an indexing engine. It also notes when sites or servers host malware, and publishes a list of sites that it has found that have what it thinks is malware.

It is easy to get off this list. You clean the site, then ask Google to rescan the site. They do, and if the site is clean, it's off the list within 24 hours. Happened to me on my personal site. I cleaned it up, asked for a rescan, and was removed from the list within a day of when I asked for the scan.

Google is doing this as a public service to protect YOU by giving the white hats on the net some warning of where badness is found. Google is NOT being autocratic or overbearing. It's trying to help. This is NOT something that evil overlord Google is doing to control the universe.

What's going on is that Allynmey is aware of the problem, and has been aware of it for over a year. He either does not care, doesn't want to fix it (or bother to fix it), or can't fix it for one reason or another. There have been mysterious comments about lost keys to the database from the first owner and that preventing an upgrade to the phpbb level, and that somehow tied into why a google rescan can't be done. There may be some logic there, but I can't see it.

My personal conclusion is the airplane-on-autopilot scenario. Either nobody is in the cockpit, or the controls are locked out, or something similar. It's holding course until it runs out of fuel or otherwise crashes from external trouble.

The problem with the warning being there and continuing to use the site is that people get trained to ignore malware warnings and if this site or some other site displays the warning, people get to automatically ignoring the warnings and run a high risk of getting infected. And possibly with something like ransom ware, which holds all the data on YOUR COMPUTER encrypted until you pay several hundred bucks. You get trained to ignore warnings. Bad juju indeed. It's not a benign situation.

Apologies for the silly question, but who owns TAG? Assuming someone had admin level access, couldn't the site be migrated to a new host on a fresh phpBB install? I might be willing/able to assist.

Many of us have volunteered time, money and other resources. No reply from Allynmey, even to the administrators that keep the cabin running and passengers in order while the plane flies on. Moderators/administrators that participate on the forum do not have the passwords to change the innermost parts of the server and copy it to new hosts, update, etc. That's apparently only Allynmey, and he has not responded to requests and offers of help.

And the plane flies on.