The Highlander Quill Club
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| Archive | |
|---|---|
| Name: | The Highlander Quill Club |
| Date(s): | 1998 (?) – 2009 |
| Archivist: | eng/sengel |
| Founder: | ? |
| Type: | fanfic, challenges |
| Fandom: | Highlander |
| URL: | |
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The Highlander Quill Club was a Highlander fiction archive. It hosted fiction by Maygra and Rory, was home of Chaos Chronicles[1] and hosted The Schmarlequin Contests.
Taken Down by a Virus Hack
In June 2009 the site was attacked by a hacker who took down all the content and infected the remaining pages with a virus. Those responsible informed that the site would be offline for cleaning, renovation and would soon be reinstated, but after the attack the site was closed.
In the olden days, anarchists were cute little mad monks with the obligatory black sphere and sizzling fuse. Ah, well, that was then and this is now:
- On 06/03/09, our ten year old site was hacked and hijacked by a nasty .htaccess plot out of Russia (and you thought the cold war was dead)
- On 06/05/09, all the site pages were infected with a redirect code which locked up non-protected browsers coming to the site.
- On 06/15/09, I took the site down and started figuring out what the @#$% had happened.
It's a large (600 + MB) site and will take a while to sort out and clean and reload, so be patient, please.
I am so very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused any visitors to this site, eng/sengel @
If such things interest you, here is a fairly clear description of this attack, which apparently is an equal opportunity assailant: The .htaccess exploit[2][3]
Fan Comments
[Janie Khodor]
I have to agree...I love MacGeorge, really the whole gang at the Highlander Quill Club. Not only are their stories great, but their webpage is downright awesome and the images are pure art.Luv, Janie (who is new.)[5]
[Moonbeam]
A fair-sized but very graphics-intensive archive of GEN, ADULT, and SLASH fiction. The graphics slow loading time, but it is rather easy to navigate once you're in. Major authors like Maygra de Rhema have their own pages, while all other minor authors can be found in the Library's Stacks. HLQC runs many writing challenges and awards, so the quality of the fiction is generally high.[6]
References
- ^ "Chaos Chronicles". 2001. Archived from the original on 2001-03-09.
- ^ "Seven Pillars relaunch". 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ^ "Unmasking the Antivirus 2009 .htaccess Exploit". Unmask Parasites. 2008-12-08. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20.
- ^ Helga Abendroth (1999-11-24). "POLL:The best HL fanfic author on the net". alt.tv.highlander.creative. Archived from the original on 2024-08-04.
- ^ Janie Khodor (1999-12-07). "POLL:The best HL fanfic author on the net". alt.tv.highlander.creative. Archived from the original on 2024-08-04.
- ^ Moonbeam (2005). "Fanfiction Quicklinks". Moonbeam's Fanfiction Predilections. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10.