Tonight while browsing the boards I noticed that the avatar's for several members (including myself) seem to have been changed to one specific avatar (something about fire ants?). Did someone hack the site, or is this a cause of some form of virus? I tried to reset my avatar, but the same picture kept being put up as my new one. I have deleted my current avatar until it can be resolved.

Christina (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:51 am Tonight while browsing the boards I noticed that the avatar's for several members (including myself) seem to have been changed to one specific avatar (something about fire ants?). Did someone hack the site, or is this a cause of some form of virus? I tried to reset my avatar, but the same picture kept being put up as my new one. I have deleted my current avatar until it can be resolved.

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I was wondering if it's just me.

I have my browser set up properly, and all Im getting for avatars is that HUGE graphic. It's really making it hard to read the boards.

Fixed as to the large replacement image

Re-upload your avatar - everyone else will see it correctly

Please read below and contact me ASAP with your technical details so I can try to code a patch to address your situation.

It's actually a counter-measure against a board whose members were re-posting avatars of people on THIS site. Not only using our members images without their permission, but also using EA bandwidth.

For 99% of people all of the avatars would have displayed correctly (in other words only people affected like you would have seen the changed image, not all EA members) ... the avatar serving script was modified to see if the request was coming from *.eunuch.org before serving the picture. Evidently for some reason your technical configuration ... whether it's your ISP or browser was not passing that information along in the standard way and the script was flagging you.

To better help me, could you give me more specific information about your ISP and browser type and version????

Thanks,

B

Bboy, could it possibly be that options are set in the browser to NOT give 'refferrer' info? That would be my first thought ...

I know I used to run that way since in many cases I do NOT think the new page should know where I'm coming from.

These days, when I run into a situation where I don't wish referrer to be known, I copy the link URL and put it into a new virgin window.

Just a tought.

Tom

It certainly could be Tomas, although to be quite honest I didn't even know you could do that in ... say Internet Explorer.

I think I have it fixed ... let's keep an eye open.