Hack Attack

[+x_xenolith_x]

Why am I seeing this message

[+arisoft]

Have you tried to see the error log? It may contain more accurate information than any guess I could give. My first guess is that you are behind some broken proxy system.

[+DerDiedler]

If you are suspecting a Hack Attack, klicking a link might be the most stupid idea you can possibly have

[+Team Microdot]

Which website are you trying to access?

 

Which web browser are you using?

 

Have you tried accessing the same website using a different web browser?

 

[+Viajero Perdido]

Why are you not giving us basic info like the web address?

 

Why do you expect us to perform miracles?

 

I've never seen Groundspeak and nginx used in the same sentence before.

[+Max and 99]

3 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said:

Why are you not giving us basic info like the web address?

 

Why do you expect us to perform miracles?

 

I've never seen Groundspeak and nginx used in the same sentence before.

Nor Faithfully Yours.

[+arisoft]

5 hours ago, DerDiedler said:

If you are suspecting a Hack Attack, klicking a link might be the most stupid idea you can possibly have

 

In this case it may be the only way to get the answer to the question.

 

My second guess it that OP is using some VPN system which is using a proxy and the proxy is broken or the service is blocked by geocaching.com.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

Re-read Viajero & Max's comments above.

 

STAY AWAY FROM THIS - It's not even a real Windows message.

 

DON'T try to solve it.

 

Arisoft - there's NO circumstance under which clicking that link is OK on the internet.

[+not2b]

Don't panic.  nginx is a proxy server.  If the OP is getting this message at work, the company's sysadmins might be running it.   It's probably safe to ask them if they are.

 

[+arisoft]

11 minutes ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

Arisoft - there's NO circumstance under which clicking that link is OK on the internet.

 

I am sure that the link gives the reason why the page is not loading. What makes you suspect something else? If you are affraid of clicking links you should disconnect your computer from the Internet.

 

 

 

[+Team Microdot]

13 minutes ago, arisoft said:

 

I am sure that the link gives the reason why the page is not loading. What makes you suspect something else? If you are affraid of clicking links you should disconnect your computer from the Internet.

 

 

Spoken like a person with devices probably crawling with malware.

[+arisoft]

32 minutes ago, Team Microdot said:

Spoken like a person with devices probably crawling with malware.

 

I am using outdated operating system and web browser and absolutely no antivirus program. But I do not see messages from nginx so they must be safe.

Edited November 5, 2018 by arisoft

[+Team Microdot]

10 minutes ago, arisoft said:

 

I am using outdated operating system and web browser and absolutely no antivirus program. But I do not see messages from nginx so they must be safe.

 

I rest my case.

[+The A-Team]

5 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

Arisoft - there's NO circumstance under which clicking that link is OK on the internet.

As a blanket statement, no, that's not correct. There could be many circumstances where clicking that link could be useless at worst, and could actually provide some useful information at best. Without knowing where this message is coming from or inspecting the target of that hyperlink, there's no way to pass judgement on whether it could be harmful or not. Most likely, it's harmless and just wouldn't give any information that would be useful to anyone other than the person running the web server.

 

Anyway, AFAIK, HQ doesn't use nginx on their web servers (they seem to use IIS in Windows), so this must be coming from some other site.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

5 hours ago, The A-Team said:

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Anyway, AFAIK, HQ doesn't use nginx on their web servers (they seem to use IIS in Windows), so this must be coming from some other site. 

 

And therefore...

[+arisoft]

3 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

And therefore...

 

And therefore you have to click the link to see where it is coming from.

[+DerDiedler]

I love threads like this where the initiator just disapears after his problem was placed. No further reactions, no answeres to queries, no report about the actual state or further actions taken.

Have he clickt the link? what happened?

Ok, one excuse would be he clicked the link and his machine got smoked

[+Team Microdot]

18 minutes ago, arisoft said:

3 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

And therefore...

 

And therefore you have to click the link to see where it is coming from.

 

Actually you don't.

 

You can just hover your mouse pointer over it and your web browser will display the destination.

 

 

[+Team Microdot]

3 minutes ago, DerDiedler said:

I love threads like this where the initiator just disapears after his problem was placed. No further reactions, no answeres to queries, no report about the actual state or further actions taken.

Have he clickt the link? what happened?

Ok, one excuse would be he clicked the link and his machine got smoked

 

Yeah - me too - it's a joke.

 

 

[+NYPaddleCacher]

17 hours ago, not2b said:

Don't panic.  nginx is a proxy server.  If the OP is getting this message at work, the company's sysadmins might be running it.   It's probably safe to ask them if they are.

 

 

Nginx is a web server,  often used as a load balancer or reverse proxy.   It is used in a standard configuration for Ruby on Rails applications (directing requests to Puma, an application server).   Since GS uses load balancing, it's entirely possible that it's using nginx as a load balancer to several machines running windows IIS

 

[+Team Microdot]

1 minute ago, NYPaddleCacher said:

 

Nginx is a web server,  often used as a load balancer or reverse proxy.   It is used in a standard configuration for Ruby on Rails applications (directing requests to Puma, an application server).   Since GS uses load balancing, it's entirely possible that it's using nginx as a load balancer to several machines running windows IIS

 

 

It's also entirely possible the OP has nothing to do with GS and we're all wasting our time trying to second-guess the OP who is long gone and could no longer care a fig.

 

[+NYPaddleCacher]

13 minutes ago, Team Microdot said:

 

It's also entirely possible the OP has nothing to do with GS and we're all wasting our time trying to second-guess the OP who is long gone and could no longer care a fig.

 

 

Yes,  that's entirely possible.  I was just offering an explanation of nginx (from someone that has used it) which provides a plausible explanation for why someone might see a reference to it that has nothing to do with hacking