Why this action has been blocked?

Worker Joined: Aug 02, 2004 Posts: 165

Why this action has been blocked? Query string seems to be clean:

Query String: name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=16769&highlight=msiexec

Quote:

Created By: NukeSentinel(tm) 2.6.01
Date & Time: 2008-11-17 16:22:55 EET GMT +0200
Blocked IP: _removed_
User ID: _removed_ (12345)
Reason: Abuse-Filter
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Referer: on site
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; MEGAUPLOAD 1.0; MEGAUPLOAD 2.0)
HTTP Host: _removed_
Script Name: /modules.php
Query String: name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=16769&highlight=msiexec
Get String: name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=16769&highlight=msiexec
Post String: Not Available
Forwarded For: none
Client IP: none
Remote Address: _removed_
Remote Port: 1453
Request Method: GET
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Who-Is for IP
Unable to query WhoIs information for _removed_.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:47 am

Because of "exec" I think. U
Btw:Users with such names are also blocked.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:55 am

Susann wrote:

Because of "exec" I think. U
Btw:Users with such names are also blocked.

What is behind of this reason? It's search/highlight function, so it should not cause blocking - or am I missing now something?

msiexec.exe belongs to the Windows Installer Component and is used to install new programs that use Windows Installer package files (MSI). This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:08 am

Well check this post and you will find exact the same behavior:

ravenphpscripts.com/posts14208-highlight-exec.html

Exec is a shell script.
Search on Google. I quess you will find some interesting info.

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:29 am

If you look at line 295 of the current NS program /includes/nukesentinel.php you will see the culprit. A lot of these filters are written with a pretty broad brush and sometimes result in false positives. It appears from the code that the word "exec" in a query string will be filtered unless it is part of the string "execu". You could add an exception for "msiexec" easily enough I suppose though it would be overwritten by the next NS upgrade.