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Did you just recently upload or update a virus or adware tool?
I'm even getting blocked by any thread (even on AZ) that has any Cuetable running on it.
try this link http://cuetable.com/C/ and and if ask you allow shockwave click yes, i got it working now
Fred,
The pool.bz website is the creator of the WEI table. I don't know what the story is with him anymore. It used to be that we could post WEI tables in forums such as here and onepocket.org. All the sudden about 6 months or so ago, he started blocking other sites from embedding the cuetable.
Basically he's trying to force anyone using the WEI table to only be able to use it on his site, is what I'm guessing. One could embed a table here for example, but you have to go to his site to see what the table actually looks like.
I'm not sure why he did all this, but he also won't answer emails or the like, to have him explain what's going on.
Over the past several years, onepocket.org has used the WEI table a lot, diagramming onepocket shots, and it was a great tool to use for that purpose. Many times he would work on the WEI table and it would get all messed up, but he would have nothing on his site saying what he was doing or why it was messed up. Just really got to be a burden using it, because out of nowhere, it could not work at all and he would not answer emails.
The WEI table was a great tool and I really wish he would allow us to use it. I understand people wanting traffic to his site, but c'mon.... nobody is going to go there to discuss WEI tables only. I wish he would make his intentions clear and let the forum admins work with him on what he's after.
Hopefully someone else will program something that works as well or better and is willing to work with the major pool forums to allow everyone to be happy.
He has account here, it's cuetable You can see his user account in the sticky about cuetables at the top of this page
It sounds like this guy is using the Bill Gates Windows operating system business model. Bill Gates would be proud.
There is no need really to have cuetable embedded,,,,,,I use it on my site without doing so. Here is how I do it,,,,,,not saying it's better or anything,,,,,,it just works and its not hard.
http://www.classifiedbilliards.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=3302
http://www.classifiedbilliards.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=3302
Careful -- cuetable.com and pool.bz flagged as hosting malware
Guys:
Be VERY CAREFUL with anything you click inside either the pool.bz or cuetable.com website.
Without getting into a long propeller-head discussion (information security is my day-job gig), suffice to say that both sites have been flagged by Google (e.g. the Chrome browser) as well as several anti-virus, anti-malware, and content management companies as having been successfully attacked to the point of hosting malware. (See screenshots below.)
The reason is that cuetable.com and pool.bz do not have sufficient content-management measures in place to prevent someone from uploading malware (which has already happened and been reported), as well as links or cross-site-scripting hacks that, again, propellerhead-speak suppressed, use *your* PC or Mac as a drone to send out spam or attack other sites. There were a couple very dangerous Trojan Horses found on cuetable.com/pool.bz -- ones of the class "rootkits." (Meaning, your PC or Mac is attacked and penetrated at the kernel level, which make disinfection or cleaning extremely difficult, if not impossible, and make your PC or Mac completely "remote controllable" as long as you're connected to the Internet.)
Don't click on any links inside any of the cuetable.com/pool.bz forums, as you have no guarantee of the site you're being redirected to. A lot of makes up "forum spam" is exactly this -- what's called "drive by" or phishing attacks. If you *have* to use the WEI table, be very cognizant and careful of what you click on!
The obvious warnings and precautions apply:
Be careful out there. Unfortunately, that also means heightened awareness with one of our most beloved tools, the WEI table!
-Sean <-- your friendly neighborhood white-hat and gray-hat information security specialist
P.S.: the below are *photos*, not actual "clickable" pages.
Guys:
Be VERY CAREFUL with anything you click inside either the pool.bz or cuetable.com website.
Without getting into a long propeller-head discussion (information security is my day-job gig), suffice to say that both sites have been flagged by Google (e.g. the Chrome browser) as well as several anti-virus, anti-malware, and content management companies as having been successfully attacked to the point of hosting malware. (See screenshots below.)
The reason is that cuetable.com and pool.bz do not have sufficient content-management measures in place to prevent someone from uploading malware (which has already happened and been reported), as well as links or cross-site-scripting hacks that, again, propellerhead-speak suppressed, use *your* PC or Mac as a drone to send out spam or attack other sites. There were a couple very dangerous Trojan Horses found on cuetable.com/pool.bz -- ones of the class "rootkits." (Meaning, your PC or Mac is attacked and penetrated at the kernel level, which make disinfection or cleaning extremely difficult, if not impossible, and make your PC or Mac completely "remote controllable" as long as you're connected to the Internet.)
Don't click on any links inside any of the cuetable.com/pool.bz forums, as you have no guarantee of the site you're being redirected to. A lot of makes up "forum spam" is exactly this -- what's called "drive by" or phishing attacks. If you *have* to use the WEI table, be very cognizant and careful of what you click on!
The obvious warnings and precautions apply:
- Make absolutely sure your anti-virus is up-to-date. In fact, you should invoke your AV's "update" feature manually, just to make sure it's so. (Don't rely upon the "auto-update" feature -- that is one of the first things that malware will turn off, or insert code that makes it "look like" it's updating successfully.)
- Install an anti-malware specialist, like Malwarebytes
- If you are responsible for a corporate environment, you should investigate comprehensive content management, like WebSense, N2H2, etc. -- many of these hook directly into firewalls such as the Cisco ASA.
- Again, on the topic of managing corporate networks, you might want to investigate a specialized threat management solution, such as EMC's NetWitness, or better yet, FireEye.
Be careful out there. Unfortunately, that also means heightened awareness with one of our most beloved tools, the WEI table!
-Sean <-- your friendly neighborhood white-hat and gray-hat information security specialist
P.S.: the below are *photos*, not actual "clickable" pages.
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Yes, but your just designing the table and taking a screenshot of it and posting that. That's what a person has to do now but that's not the way it's supposed to work. That completely negates the whole purpose of the tool. Not sure if you ever saw it work the way it was intended to but that's like designing a website and taking screenshots of each page and making that your website.
That's all the wei table is good for now...is taking screenshots of it.
Thanks Sean, wasn't aware his sites had been flagged for malware. He upgraded to vbulletin 4 which was a complete redesign of vbulletin to a fullfledged CMS. Turned it into a school zone from a interstate as far as speed. 
I guess I should say... I call the cuetable the Wei table. I guess the Wei has been defunct for years now. I think I just ended up calling it that
Calired...I don't have this as certain, but Wei Chao and I talked about the Wei Table several years ago, and what a great tool it was. Like all software designers, Wei was looking for a way to make a little money (not a lot), to sustain his other site, which was originally called "Library". I don't know if he deliberately shut down the function or not...but it would seem reasonable to charge a small fee (maybe .10 or .25) to post a Wei Table, with full user options, in a post here, on OnePocket.org, or anywhere outside of his site. Perhaps there could be some kind of subscription, kind of like those of us who support AzB by becoming paid members. To me that's still a win-win proposition.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Is this why I get this error?
Director Player Error This application requires an Xtra (Animated GIF...) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Extras are in the Xtras folder(s).
I uninstalled & reinstalled flash player following their directions. When I click on a diagram here on AZ or 1P.org I get the above error. When I go to poolbz I get the unsafe message but it will load the wei table there.
Does anyone else get the same error? The only thing displayed is a big red X
Rod
Director Player Error This application requires an Xtra (Animated GIF...) that either does not exist or failed to initialize properly. Please make sure the appropriate Extras are in the Xtras folder(s).
I uninstalled & reinstalled flash player following their directions. When I click on a diagram here on AZ or 1P.org I get the above error. When I go to poolbz I get the unsafe message but it will load the wei table there.
Does anyone else get the same error? The only thing displayed is a big red X
Rod
We used to call it the Wei Table when he first came up with it.
Anyhoos, I pinged Wei to tell him that there's an issue. Surely if he was paying attention he would have done something by now as he's all about internet media development.
Maybe the AZers in NYC have already talked to him at this point.
It will forever be WEI for mei.
The NYC has been very quiet about it...yes. :scratchhead:
Message sent and received. He's checking into it.
Can you ask him to explain what his plans are for the tool? Will we be able to embed them in the forums like we used to or what exactly is the story now with the whole situation. There's a lot of people curious about it and we've never seen a official response.
Thanks much.
Thanks much.
