Members online visiting the forum

[jalsina]

I am observing since yesterday in "Who is Online" at the bottom of the main intro page, of about 160 RWA users online when it is usually below 20. Nearly all those 160 are guests.
What is it going on? Are those bots camping in RWA? Or is it dangerous for RWA?

[buzz456]

I'm certainly not sure what the interest is but at this point there has been no hostile or other action.

[august1929]

Multiple views of Member details, FAQs ,Searching forums, User control panel and Index page - all at 5:34 to 5:38 p.m. and still going...

Rod

[mindenjohn]

Showing I'm on my own here.

[AmericanSteam]

I lurk time to time.

[mindenjohn]

Now its showing American Steam and I as the only ones aboard.

[buzz456]

Look at the guests. I wiped them off two or three times and they just return in a few minutes.

[Chacal]

Bots

[buzz456]

Any idea for eliminating them?

[AmericanSteam]

Are they signed in or signed in and invisible?

[Chacal]

Any idea for eliminating them?

John Connor

[buzz456]

Are they signed in or signed in and invisible?

Signed in as guests.

[jalsina]

Any idea for eliminating them?

John Connor

Try Kyle Reese as well.

[buzz456]

Thanks I'll ask them,:(

[Tomtom]

Some user has gotten a poorly written DDOS virus and not know it. They also may have screwed with it in an attempt fix it, resulting corruption. By leaving a file open and then going to RWA it probably copied to the virus. The IP does not matter because the virus will mask that. The fact that you terminate the guest user and it immediately reconnects pretty much proves this. OR - your server has some serious crapola going on (which I doubt).