For some reason I (and other users) have found a bunch of losers still attempting to exploit a flaw in IndexU that hasn’t existed in at least two years.
You will notice users trying to exploit this flaw by visiting the power_search.php URL as follows
/power_search.php?pflag=search&title=VGOFmPcTvgSzKlBHGU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The URL is extremely long, and for users of 5.4x and Deluxe nothing happens. But I noticed recently something IS happening.
What’s happening is that IndexU is throwing back a 404 not found page. This is all fine and good, but on one site I have hundreds of these submissions daily which sucks up bandwidth like crazy.
Disabling power_search.php doesn’t help, because IndexU still returns the 404 error. You need to do the following
