By Staff Site Issues and Feedback

[Wrecker4923]

@Jack

Minor issue: In the editor, when I press Ctrl+K in Firefox to open the link editor, focus doesn’t move to the first input field in the dialog (the cursor remains in the editor box).

 

[Victor M]

@Jack
Is the kid with the water melon and the other fella earning you advertising dollars ? I scrolled thru all 10 pages of 'new posts' and 70% of it are XYZ calculators and Me Too VLC media players. Some of the interesting threads are scrolled off those 10 pages.

 

[SHvFl]

@Jack Any chance we can get the old font combination as an option and no bolds.

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

@Sampei.Nihira I think your observation about the Reddit requests may have been on the right track.

I did a few additional checks on the "What's New" page because I was still seeing the uBlock Origin counter increasing over time.

Using Edge DevTools, I noticed repeated requests to:

Reddit - The heart of the internet

embed.reddit.com

which are being blocked as ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT. The error count continues to increase while the page remains open.

I also checked Edge's Task Manager and noticed that the page is loading an embed.reddit.com subframe.

In my case, CPU usage remains very low, so I'm not seeing any major performance impact, but I thought the screenshots might be useful in case they help explain why some of us are still seeing the counter rise on the "What's New" page.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
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It's too bad I didn't have more time—other than the 5 seconds I spent on my post—to look into it more thoroughly.
In any case, it was definitely a privacy issue.
A list of privacy filters with a blocking rule.
That's 100% certain.

 

[SHvFl]

@Jack Does Recently browsing respect the Privacy option to not show my online status and current activity? Because I can see mine but maybe it is because it is me. Makes no sense but better ask.

 

[SeriousHoax]

@Jack Does Recently browsing respect the Privacy option to not show my online status and current activity? Because I can see mine but maybe it is because it is me. Makes no sense but better ask.

I think it works as intended. Check this without logging in/in browser's private mode, and you will not see yourself or me.

Current visitors

malwaretips.com

 

[SeriousHoax]

So we are back? MT was down for a while. What happened @Jack? Site update related or something else?
Edit: Never mind. Found the reason:

By Staff Thread 'Scheduled maintenance: server RAM replacement'

Yesterday at 10:10 AM

MalwareTips will be offline for about 30–60 minutes. During that time the forum will not be available.

Why: our diagnostics found one of the server’s DDR5 memory modules is faulty. It is flipping bits at random (memtester reported repeated errors, all on the same memory channel). This has caused occasional errors in cached data. We checked the disks and databases and they are intact. Backups are verified and stored offsite. To fix the problem properly, the datacenter will power down the server and replace the faulty RAM.

After the swap we will re-run our memory and data integrity...

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[harlan4096]

By Staff Thread 'Scheduled maintenance: server RAM replacement'

Yesterday at 10:10 AM

MalwareTips will be offline for about 30–60 minutes. During that time the forum will not be available.

Why: our diagnostics found one of the server’s DDR5 memory modules is faulty. It is flipping bits at random (memtester reported repeated errors, all on the same memory channel). This has caused occasional errors in cached data. We checked the disks and databases and they are intact. Backups are verified and stored offsite. To fix the problem properly, the datacenter will power down the server and replace the faulty RAM.

After the swap we will re-run our memory and data integrity...

• Jack
• Replies: 10
• Forum: Announcements

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