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Title: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Amila on July 14, 2014, 02:08:59 am
Below u will see a picture of a guest .. moving a topic.. hmm how I logged out of my account to see if there are mod tools there are None
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: CreateAForum on July 14, 2014, 02:11:48 am
Not really happening unless you let guests have that permission.
It can be a bot or if you just logged out.
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Amila on July 14, 2014, 02:13:48 am
Its not my ip adress
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: CreateAForum on July 14, 2014, 02:20:31 am
Yeah could be a bot
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Amila on July 14, 2014, 02:22:03 am
Ok thank you one more question, whats a bot
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Royston on July 14, 2014, 02:53:53 am
 a bot is an automated application used to perform simple and repetitive tasks that would be time-consuming, mundane or impossible for a human to perform.
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Amila on July 14, 2014, 02:56:24 am
U really had to goohle that
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Andrew on July 15, 2014, 07:54:48 pm
Amila- before asking questions here, it is best to do the following in this order:

- Do a search on the forum
- Do a Google search

To answer your question, a "bot" in this case would be more like a "spider". Spiders crawl your website going to random URLs. Rest assured that if they do not have permission to do the action it says they are doing that it isn't really happening.

A good example would be the spider going to boardname.createaforum.com?action=logout
Leads to "Logging out of the forum" in the Who's Online list.

In this case, the spider went to http://ebey.createaforum.com/index.php?action=movetopic;topic=221 which leads to that message in the Who's Online list.

Royston- you did a Google search for a bot, but that is the not correct kind of bot that browses websites.
Title: Re: Hacker, hacking ??? ...... whats going on
Post by: Amila on July 15, 2014, 07:56:41 pm
Thank you for your train of tought but createaforum already answered my question