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Topic: This makes me nervous...

Posted By: ramone_johnny
Subject: This makes me nervous...
Date Posted: 11 January 2006 at 12:16pm

Im not sure what this means exactly - but within the admin console under forum statistics, occasionally I see this..

There are currently 4 Active Users on-line, 3 Guest(s) and 1 Member(s)

Username	Logged In	Last Active	Active	OS	Browser
ramone_johnny	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:38	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 05:02	24 Minutes	Windows XP	Microsoft IE 6
Guest 1	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	0 Minutes	Unknown	Unknown
Guest 2	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	0 Minutes	Unknown	Unknown
Guest 3	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 04:59	0 Minutes	Unknown	Unknown

This data is based on users active over the past ten minutes

I mean, guests 1 through 3 had been online and showing for over 15 minutes with the information "Unknown" displayed.

Are these just hung or invalid session variables or is someone trying to "back door" my site?

Please anyone?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 January 2006 at 12:43pm

I wouldn't worry to much about it, it just means that in the version you are using I haven't placed any code into the browser/OS detection function to indentify the browser, or search engine bot that is currently on your forum.

Version 8 should fix this as it identifieds more bots, like the Google Adsense bot which will come to your site if you have google ads, that in the present, 7.96 or below, versions will show as 'Unkonwn'.

Version 8 not only will indentify more browsers, OS's and serach bots, but will also show their location within your forum. See the active users page at the bottom of the forum index on this site, to see this in action.

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Posted By: jeffdaro
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:47pm

On a related topic...why do you show this info only to Admin's? Any reason not so share it with users?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:32pm

Users can view this data.

Click on the 'active users' link in the forum statistics part of the main forum index page.

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