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19th January 2018
The new server has a great virus-scanning feature, which blocks any downloads should the file contain any kind of possible dodgyness.

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Unfortunately, the virus scanner is also popping up with false-positives on practically every single one of my 2009 games.
Quite why that is, I'm not sure, but that's a heck of a lot of games!

I spent a while, yesterday, double and triple checking all the games with a bunch of different virus scanners, and they seemed perfectly fine, so I had to faff about with the server to get it to ignore all the games.
Bit of a pain, as the scanner made me click each and every game individually, before then clicking "It's safe!" and eventually getting the things back to normal.

All is safe!!
*phew*

If you do get any false-positives from any of my games, be sure to let me know what games, and what virus scanner you're running, and I'll set about figuring out why that might be.

Meanwhile

Additional server stuff, as I realised the online scoreboards were completely broke, and had to faff about with servevr settings to get that working again, the way it's supposed to.
Basically, the "Mod Security" was blocking access to the script as it thought that the complex scoreboard request was a hacking attempt!

*tut*
This new server really doesn't like all my 1980's coding methods!!

I then had to double-up the hack prevention on the scripts themselves, to be extra sure that things were safe.
New hosts, KloudHost, were fairly happy that things were nice and stable.

Hopefully they are.. and all will run smoothly from here onwards!
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