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#1

Post by matthewcallis » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:06 PM UTC

#2

Post by jff » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:19 PM UTC

Am I doing something wrong? http://debian.org, theregister.co.uk, and slashdot.org were all "malware".

#3

Post by binspace » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:21 PM UTC

#4

Post by matthewcallis » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:25 PM UTC

No you weren't doing anything wrong, I was updating the malware database and how it checks for malware.

#5

Post by ashishbharthi » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:30 PM UTC

please pardon my ignorance but how exactly this is different from tinyurl.com or bit.ly?

#6

Post by bentruyman » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:30 PM UTC

"Error: MYSQL related..."

#7

Post by bentruyman » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:36 PM UTC

Make sure you're escaping user input. I got a revealing MySQL error before and found that I _could_ have injected some nasty strings.

Teehee.

#8

Post by Raphael » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:39 PM UTC

ashishbharthi wrote: post #5

please pardon my ignorance but how exactly this is different from tinyurl.com or bit.ly?

Harder to type.

#9

Post by fishercs » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:46 PM UTC

seiken densetsu 3.. the sequel to secret of mana for the SNES.. god that was a great game !

#10

Post by matthewcallis » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 9:58 PM UTC

I didn't think it'd get so many URls, it's getting hammered.

Great for testing, might even make it to the kanji: http://séó.com/何