Members getting bad ping after using yabb? :/

[ErWiNnEr]

I just got back from my holiday, then i readed the following post at the forum that I host:

Guys,

After some testing by both Hansup and myself it seems that there is some nasty stuff at work on this site.

I have found my ping goes upto 180ish after being on this site, and doesnt stop until I either reboot or get a new ip address...

Hansup tried some stuff yesterday and it looks like his HD was attacked pretty badly.

Until we can confirm this is safe i think we should return to posting on the original site.

Sorry  

So I scanned all the files on my webspace with norton antivirus 2003, all clean, i have no idea what it can be  

On the same webspace is a forum with more then 130 users registered, and no one haves that problem (not a yabbse forum) so it aint the webspace.

So I think that it is something in yabb, does anyone know what the problem is?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Erwin

btw this is the link to the forum http://def.motorsportfotos.co.uk/yabb/index.php , it is in 'Maintenance Mode' atm.

[A.M.A.]

Strange    did you check the posts! They may contain some flashes that cause the problem..


cheer

[Ben_S]

Cant think of anything that would cause this, though I did once have a random avatar script that got broke when the host upgraded to php 4.3.1 and got stuck in a big loop just spewing out random crap to those that viewed it - only discovered the problem when I noticed that my avatar had used about 30gig of transfer in 2 days.

I suppose an issue like that could saturate a dial up users connection and result it slow pings.

Dont think theres anything YSE could do to cause such problems though.

[[Unknown]]

Considering the name of your forum, maybe they just weren't sober .

No... there's no way a forum or website could really take bandwidth and keep it unless you SPECIFICALLY put mailicious javascript code into your template.

It might just be IE.  What happens if they go to google.com first, and then check their ping?  Are they running any programs?  Have they tried tools like Ad Aware? <www.lavasoftusa.com>

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[ErWiNnEr]

Thanks for the replies,

Strange    did you check the posts! They may contain some flashes that cause the problem..

Umm do you mean files that are attached to posts? I have that option enabled, but only these files are allowed: jpg,gif,dm_60 . So it is not possible to upload any virusses/trojans  

Cant think of anything that would cause this, though I did once have a random avatar script that got broke when the host upgraded to php 4.3.1 and got stuck in a big loop just spewing out random crap to those that viewed it - only discovered the problem when I noticed that my avatar had used about 30gig of transfer in 2 days.

I suppose an issue like that could saturate a dial up users connection and result it slow pings.

Dont think theres anything YSE could do to cause such problems though.

2 members are saying that they are having troubles. they both have broadband (dsl/cable).

One thinks that his HD crashed because of this issue and the other one thinks that his ping raises up to +400 at game servers  .

Considering the name of your forum, maybe they just weren't sober .

No... there's no way a forum or website could really take bandwidth and keep it unless you SPECIFICALLY put mailicious javascript code into your template.

It might just be IE.  What happens if they go to google.com first, and then check their ping?  Are they running any programs?  Have they tried tools like Ad Aware? <www.lavasoftusa.com>

I still use the standard template, and I dont have any mods installed yet, I will give them the link to the Ad Aware site and let them scan their pc's.

Thanks again for the replies, if someone got other ideas, please drop them here.

I turned the maintenance mode off again so have a look.

I will post it here when the problem is solved including why they got a bad ping. (I dont notice any troubles with it by the way)

Cheers Erwin

[ErWiNnEr]

any1?

[Ben_S]

There is honestly no way YSE could do such a thing, are they running some form of P2P app and getting people downloading from them saturating their upstream, that would cause such an effect.

When it happens again, can you get them to do a few before and after traceroutes to various sites, eg yabbse.org google.com and prehaps get the results on netstat -a then prehaps we can narrow the issue down?