Flash poses a security risk to GFY, change your sigs.
 

We recently became aware of a Flash exploit that allows, among other things, to steal a GFY user's cookie, load it on their computer and start posting as you, or worse, as a moderator and start deleting threads, banning people, etc.

We banned a flash parameter last week that we believed stopped this exploit. But after a malicious Flash demonstration last night, we have decided to not allow the em-bedding a flash in your posts or sigs. Even if our fix last week stopped the cookie exploit, a flash sig can launch pop-ups, and much more.

Last week, we notified many advertisers of this and asked them to quietly change their sigs to gifs, as we did not want to alert anyone who would potentially try to hack accounts.

GFY advertisers' banners are not effected.

You need to change your sigs to gifs or jpgs. Sorry for the hassle.

thank god!

Good news.

Thank fucking god. Those flash sigs that make noise are history!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! :thumbsup

That's terrible.

I guess my sig is gif. :thumbsup

No more sounds.

BIG SIG

lol, were you not sure what it was?

Well at leasts its quiet in here now. The sigs with noise were a trip.

I sale animated GIF sigs for $2000

Good move. Just like GFY was fucked by using a JavaScript to change the cookie's user login data... ya remember the time pimpdawg was yelled at for that? Good times... poor guy still doesn't have a freakin' clue what happened there. :1orglaugh

I might still have the code around here somewhere.

:ak47: haX0rs

no more people whispering in my ear...

:thumbsup


No more sounds while scrolling down a page is okay with me.

Thank you Lens! I'm sure everybody is happy! No more nosie too!

jDoG

Time to crank the music.....Dream Theater, anyone?

Excellent !!

I hope those flash banner on top go too.

bummer

woot

Exploit or not this should be done..It's getting to be a sad circus.

A PHP script can download other user's cookie info on your computer as well, ya know...

flash is the devil!

Great - sigs can stay on again. Far prefer to have them :)

Seriously THANK FUCKING GOD.

I cant think of a flash sig that i'll miss. :321GFY

So how do I unban the people that had audio ads in their sig? I don't see that option anywhere...

Time to enable the sigs again..

well not to be a dick but i think it was a stupid mistake to take out flash banners we fixed our banner like everyone asked i think you just don't like the idea of technology at it's best live streaming audio and video yeah flash can do shared objects but not true cookies and sorry lens flash to hack your board come on man think of another way to insult someone for their advances with technology:2 cents:


you wanna ban flash but there already ways around the <hahahahaha> command just delete the sigs that break a new set of rules that you can come up with cause it's your board

flash is lame, gifs rox0r.

Damn so no more "beep beep" or "fuck yeah" or "suck my dick bitch"

Its a sad sad day for GFY

I sale cheap animated GIF's... :1orglaugh

Thanks for the update Lens.
WG

:thumbsup

You can still get the noises when you mouse over on the top banner... :)

I for one will miss hearing my voice.

fuckers...
somebody got into my account and spammed Oprano and banned Amputate!

shiiiiiiiiittt!

The DEVIL I tell YA ! The Devil is Baaaaaaannnnnnneeeddddd from among US !

Good move board, even tho I had to chg my button, it was needing done. :thumbsup

I'd say "flash is evil" :Graucho

even though i just had a ton of flash banners made i'm cool with the old gif's :thumbsup

you might as well go work at wendys

:thumbsup