02-23-2002, 02:28 PM
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Truth about Kiwi and McHost
Many of you will have read about the problems Splash Host was having, almost every day for 4 weeks we had a server that would crash. Eventually by setting up resource limiting I was able to stop the servers crashing completely, i could then see that it was a cgi script that was causing the problems. I examined the script to find out that it was a fork bomb designed to crash the server. I then searched through the logs to find the ip number of the person who had ran the script. This happened many times and i was able to see that it was from the same or a very similar ip number each time.These ip numbers traced to BC, Canada. In the log files i could also see that this person had been referred to sites on the server from here so i asked Chicken to check for users using that ip number. Chicken found that Kiwi had posted using these ip numbers on the same days someone had ran a fork bomb on my server from that ip.
I will let you make up your own mind about Marc and his company, but it is pretty obvious this has been done to ruin my business so customers will go with them instead of me.
Last edited by Alan - Vox; 02-23-2002 at 03:12 PM.
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02-23-2002, 02:34 PM
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Are you serious? Did Marc set up an account with you under a different name or something?
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02-23-2002, 02:36 PM
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No what i think alan is saying is that Marc caused the hacking problems on Alans machine
Thats what i think he saying
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02-23-2002, 02:36 PM
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Im serious, he used demo accounts.
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02-23-2002, 02:36 PM
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The infamous....
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02-23-2002, 02:39 PM
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Damn - if this is true... that's really dirty.
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02-23-2002, 02:39 PM
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SUe him for the suffer damages you had in the past
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02-23-2002, 02:41 PM
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I have all the logs and evidence to confirm it.
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02-23-2002, 02:42 PM
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man, thats pretty sad that someone would stoop to that level
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02-23-2002, 02:44 PM
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McHost = Blacklisted
Stay away from them everybody
This is just tooooo lowwwwww
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02-23-2002, 02:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by SplashHost.com
I have all the logs and evidence to confirm it.
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My suggestion take a legal action against MCHost becuase you have all evidence so you will win real easy.
Just my 2 cents
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02-23-2002, 02:47 PM
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Wow. Ever since the discovery audit I wondered, but never expected it would be as big as this. How terribly sad, business must really be bad for MChost for them to go so low.
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02-23-2002, 02:47 PM
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Real sad..I'm surprised he hasn't replied yet - though..it would be a bit hard to come up with an excuse for that one 
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02-23-2002, 02:51 PM
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Marc, if this is the truth. I have to admit it is pretty dirty. He has enough to show that Kiwi did do it. Yes, I noticed when the server crashed it said "I'm leaving Spalsh Host and Going to MCHost" customers would post. He literally knew that if he crashed the Splash Host servers people would run to MCHost for service. No wonder MCHost is so big.
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02-23-2002, 02:52 PM
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