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Post by meesh on Jul 20, 2008 21:39:35 GMT -5
It appears that in my neglect of the board, some weird gibberish spam crap started showing up. We've deleted it all, and me and Amanda will be keeping an eye out for it from now on. If you see it show up again and we appear to be absent, just get ahold of us and we'll take care of it!
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Post by meesh on Aug 27, 2008 17:49:02 GMT -5
Cripe. I just did another massive de-spamification.
I did look into blocking "guests," but the only option is to close the board to everyone who isn't registered. Doing that blocks anyone who isn't registered from seeing the board at all... so I didn't think that was a good idea. Ugh. I guess we'll just keep deleting as things pop up.
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Post by amanda on Sept 3, 2008 19:48:16 GMT -5
I just deleted another round of spam. My vote is in for blocking guests, but promoting the board so more people come and register.
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karik
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Post by karik on Sept 4, 2008 12:34:52 GMT -5
That sounds like a good plan to me.
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Post by Dani on Sept 10, 2008 12:29:53 GMT -5
Most of that spam looks like malicious coding to forward and/or route through this board. I'd be careful you don't get jacked and keep on top of deleting if I were you...
Most spyware, viruses and malicious content route through and jack multiple pages so that they're harder to track down. It looks garbled because of the way it uploads and not having a coding program to read the code, but I'd worry about the board itself being jacked on the proboards server within the body text of the "gibberish" that was uploaded. That wouldn't be your problem to deal with but, still, you should keep the board clean and not let it be hijacked. Cause even if the server gets jacked that way, your boards won't be part of the trail.
I'm afraid the solution of having it be members only won't solve the spamming unless you have pretty stringent rules to keep the bots and jackers off...And then you'll alienate a lot of potential members who hate dealing with that. My suggestion is just check back often enough to delete the junk. And/or report the IPs to proboards management. The problem with that is usually they're routed through multiple IPs so it doesn't ACTUALLY fix anything. Only solution I ever found was regular cleanup, keeps the boards clean and you're less likely to get jacked if they know it'll be deleted within a certain amount of time.
Bonne chance!
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Post by Dani on Sept 10, 2008 23:44:23 GMT -5
It's also set to auto respond on active threads where people respond instead of at random. No living person would go to that much trouble. You'd set AI to do it. But not on autopilot -- automated AI would have an algorithm between the various threads which ones to hit. This one is specifically targeted for the threads that people most recently post to; probably under the mistaken assumption it's least likely to get cleaned up there.
I'd say you have a bot being used as a tool of a hacker based in Russia (based on the glyphs of the gibberish) who's trying to jack your forum as a routing use for malware/spyware.
You should keep on top of it and just clean it up immediately when it happens. Or give up the site and start fresh. Ultimately, those are the only real options.
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