Bloody spammers

Pegasus

Administrator
Staff member
Hi Folks,

Looks like we have a spammer messing about with the forum.

Will get onto 'Q' first thing to sort it - apologies.....Pegasus
 

EwanCameron

New member
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Love a fried spam sandwich with chilli sauce lived on them when I was 16

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Pegasus

Administrator
Staff member
EwanCameron said:
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Love a fried spam sandwich with chilli sauce lived on them when I was 16

:LOL: :LOL:

Sadly 'Q' is out of the office today - don't blame him, sun is shining - he'll hopefully fix the forum tomorrow - bloody spammers or whoever they are  :mad:

Thanks for your patience folks  (y)
 

royfellows

Well-known member
Opening the site does nothing so I doubt that the DNS has been hacked. I have seen this happen elsewhere, the spam pages open when you click an internal hyperlink. Unsure how they do this as its not my field. Hope that the site isn't hacked.
 

Roger W

Well-known member
Haven't noticed any problem myself - I obviously haven't clicked on the offending link.

I have to admit I misread the title of the thread at first (I know  - old age and all that!) and thought someone was objecting to the need for a Derbyshire key somewhere.    :-[
 

royfellows

Well-known member
I get it on all internal links using Chrome, spam page opens as a new tab as well as the link target page. And its only the links on the home page.
 

royfellows

Well-known member
I have just been playing about with it and am getting virus download sites as well the phoney Windows messages that are really off the web.

 

enki_ck

New member
Hm, do you use StopForumSpam to filter out the new members durring the registration process. I'm a mod on a largish forum (+5k active members and way over million posts) and we haven't had a single spammer get threw in ages thanks to it. We also use a captcha to filter out spambots and it works great.
 

bograt

Active member
enki_ck said:
Hm, do you use StopForumSpam to filter out the new members durring the registration process. I'm a mod on a largish forum (+5k active members and way over million posts) and we haven't had a single spammer get threw in ages thanks to it. We also use a captcha to filter out spambots and it works great.


Call me old fashioned, but I would expect a mod on a forum that size to be better at spelling----- :-\
 

EwanCameron

New member
Sorry I seem to be on the wrong forum this must be

Grammar & Spelling Police UK Forum  [emoji23][emoji1303]


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enki_ck

New member
Hehe, well English isn't my first language, not even my second, and I am/was on my phone so no spelling checker to correct me. ;)

It's an international forum though so better to have mods from all over the globe to keep an eye on it.

But point taken, I'll take a better look before I hit post next time. :D
 

Pegasus

Administrator
Staff member
bograt said:
enki_ck said:
Hm, do you use StopForumSpam to filter out the new members durring the registration process. I'm a mod on a largish forum (+5k active members and way over million posts) and we haven't had a single spammer get threw in ages thanks to it. We also use a captcha to filter out spambots and it works great.


Call me old fashioned, but I would expect a mod on a forum that size to be better at spelling----- :-\

Bograt!  :spank:  ;)
 

EwanCameron

New member
[emoji23] I'm no lefty tree hugger and the world has gone PC mad but I see a hint of casual bigotry towards the uneducated and people that lack in grammar

Good job people don't take a fence (you see what I did there) [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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Q

Administrator
Staff member
I've just disabled the Flickr plugin on the homepage (again). Seems to have fixed things for me - anyone else still having problems??

Thanks,
Q
 
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