Author Topic: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?  (Read 9141 times)

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Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« on: April 30, 2016, 02:38:43 PM »
Hi there are problems,
there is a new side with the name carcassonnecentral
the side starts not with the usual www.
it starts with the ww2.

and with my other PC - the ww2. stole the www.carcassonnecentral.com
that means I have no choice to come to our game page.

At this PC - the cache is not updated - so I am here online at CarcC -
but I don't know how long.

I have send an email to Gantry. - see here: http://carcassonne-forum.de/viewtopic.php?f=153&p=41235#p41234

At CarcF - you can post your problems and say hello there.
CarcassonneCentral Forum:
http://carcassonne-forum.de/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=100
We have a forums section at CarcF for the English speaking world and
also it is no problem to post there elsewhere in the forum in English.

Here is the link to the topic CarcC-News: http://carcassonne-forum.de/viewforum.php?f=153

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2687.0
« Last Edit: April 30, 2016, 02:46:57 PM by kettlefish »

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2016, 02:47:23 PM »
I checked the DNS and the site here, patches are up to date. I'm not seeing the same issue.
It could be that your own browser is compromised.
If you type in www.carcassonnecentral.com by hand on the address bar (NOT the search bar) does it correctly go to our site? What if you try it in a different web browser?

The more information I have, the easier it will be to diagnose.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2016, 02:51:38 PM »
I tested Google chrome and Morzilla - in both I tipped the www.carcassonnecentral.com manual - and each time the browsers automatically changed it into ww2.carcassonnecentral.com

Gantry at my links also Whaleyland and Decar have the same problems. So it is not only my problem.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2016, 02:56:11 PM »
Gantry the chatroom is working - perhaps you can open the chatroom - there the members can tell you their problems.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2016, 03:04:04 PM »
Gantry - should I make a screenshot from my other PC and upload it?

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2016, 03:15:06 PM »
Hi kettlefish,
scan your computer for viruses 8)!!!

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2016, 03:20:39 PM »
carols - I have a program - my PC is save.
But I am not the only one who has problems:
Whaleyland lives in NZ and Decar lives in the UK - both not in Germany - and they have also problems now.

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here is a picture from my screenshot which I have done at the other PC:

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2016, 03:30:32 PM »
I confirmed: the domain is still under my control, as well as the DNS is still correct. This leaves only 2 likely options that I can think of:

1. A virus or malware can change your browser so that it redirects legitimate pages to fake ad pages. If you type in the browser address bar (not the search bar): ww2.carcassonnecentral.com do you see that same page, or does it give you a 404 - not found error?  If you are infected it will show you that page, if you are not infected it will give you the 404 error. That subdomain does not exist in my DNS table, thus it will produce a 404 error.
2. Your internet provider's DNS service is suspect. If you know how, change your ethernet card's IPv4 DNS entries from auto to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which belong to google. Then try the address again, it should work normally and not be directed.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2016, 03:33:04 PM »
carols has a good suggestion, you should also scan your computers for malware anyhow with more than one product. Some good free ones are MalwareBytes Antimalware Free and SuperAntispyware, and a bunch of other free online scans from Kaspersky, Avast, Trend Micro Housecall, etc.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2016, 03:35:04 PM »
2. Your internet provider's DNS service is suspect. If you know how, change your ethernet card's IPv4 DNS entries from auto to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which belong to google. Then try the address again, it should work normally and not be directed.

You could of course google this, but this might help. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#windows Making it sound like you need to change the ethernet card makes it unnecessarily scary. It can be done via the standard windows interface (say I writing this on a linux machine).

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2016, 03:38:45 PM »
2. Your internet provider's DNS service is suspect. If you know how, change your ethernet card's IPv4 DNS entries from auto to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which belong to google. Then try the address again, it should work normally and not be directed.

You could of course google this, but this might help. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#windows Making it sound like you need to change the ethernet card makes it unnecessarily scary. It can be done via the standard windows interface (say I writing this on a linux machine).

Ah nice tutorial! thanks!

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2016, 03:49:59 PM »
I can only confirm, that the ww2 URL isn't working for me (Error 404). This really might be an individual problem of your computer, Kettlefish.
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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2016, 04:02:05 PM »
I had the same problem about an hour ago. I was directed to the page that kettlefish showed in the previous post, ww2. The page I was on didn't have the same ads but the rest of it was identical.

I took a deep gulp and panicked that Carc Central was lost. I was looking for contact emails I might have around while refreshing the page. Suddenly, and only after a few minutes, for me all the links (direct and from notifications) all seem to work fine now.

Thank goodness!  :D
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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2016, 05:20:25 PM »
I had the same issue. Page went to some random landing page that said "this domain expired in January 2017"

Same ww2 address as well.

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Re: Attention - CarcassonneCentral webside name is stolen?
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2016, 06:45:24 PM »
The issue appears to have resolved itself now. I was directly straight to the proper website as of 1:45 NZST.


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