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PHP Scripts Error Lead to Wink Down


This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

Wink is a People Search Engine that makes it easier to find people across the Web by providing search of over 200 Million profiles across social networks and on-line communities.

I like it very much, and posted ‘Wink Is Great But Have a Bug ‘ yesterday, now, wink.com cannot be opened. I tested it and found that the web server is not down but there’s some errors in their PHP script, so wink may be hacked by someone.

Visitting wink.com you will readding an error message, but if you refreshing browser, you will finding out that there are many error messages in wink’s PHP scripts. The error are included:

/data/web/live/webapp/web/model/FeedStore.php
/data/web/live/webapp/web/model/MxUser.php
/data/web/live/webapp/web/model/MxConnect.php

The error message is ‘Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted’, that PHP is running out of memory. Apparently wink’s scripts consume too much memory. Google the error message you will readding more about it.

UPDATE: There is no error in the other members, I loggin wink in my user account will be displayed the error message, but I registered another username and login, it’s OK. Maybe my friends too much to work?


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