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Nodtveidt · Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 830 Location: Quebradillas, PR

I got it too, which is hilarious considering I run FreeBSD and am completely immune to Windows viruses. Smile

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BadMrBox · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 87

I got it aswell.
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Pete · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:51 am Post subject:

It appears like every user on the forum got it.

I have banned this IP and deleted the account. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.

I installed an Anti-Spam suite for this forum a while ago and up to this point, it had been nearly flawless at blocking spambots. Only human spammers were able to post anything. I'm hoping, at the very least, that this was a human spammer and not a bot.

burger2227 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 878 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Well, shouldn't EK's link be removed too?

Only a jerk would post it in the forum!

Ted
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Pete · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject:

What is EK's link?

burger2227 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 878 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I really don't know actually, but I am not clicking it because normally it turns into a personal assault from anonymous buttheads trying to protect me! I NEED PROTECTED FROM THEM usually.

Last week, I tried to update some drivers for a sound attachment gadjet and now it keeps popping up! So I uninstalled the CRAP and now I get a DLL NOT FOUND ERROR. Welcome to Regedit if you can find me...

MAKE ME REINSTALL XP AGAIN! MAKE ME UPDATE ALL OF THE WINDOWS UPDATES! The solutions are WORSE than the problems anymore. Everybody is a crook or a thief as far as the web goes! I BEEN THERE!
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Deleter · Joined: 07 May 2005 Posts: 119

got a new one from BestForumAdmin or something like that...deleted it before really looking at it...

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edit wow I haven't posted here in a while...my avatar is like 4 years old

Neo · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 93 Location: The Netherlands

Yeah, first ForumAdmin, and now BestForumAdmin. Sigh, stupid spam.

And I thought that for the first time ever someone was actually honestly contacting me Sad

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Mentat · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 406 Location: NC, US

Aw, I didn't get the message. I feel so left out. Sad

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Nodtveidt · Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 830 Location: Quebradillas, PR

Yep, I just got one from BestForumAdmin. Pete, you need more admins here to take care of this stuff or this forum's going to spammer hell. Sad

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ThemePark · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 17

And now one from ModeratorTeam. Sad

coma8coma1 · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 94 Location: Maryland, USA

This crap is keepings the mods busy on a few other forums I frequent. Rolling Eyes

I'm not sure what all's being done to combat it.

SCC · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 12

Dunno if this ties into the problem or not, but i just got an email saying i had a private message and when i checked there was nothing there...which i thought was weird anyway since i haven't used this account for almost 3 years. Question

burger2227 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 878 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I removed a new imbicile who apparently waited a while and then mass messaged spam to all members.

Once they are tossed, the message diasappears too.

Ted
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coma8coma1 · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 94 Location: Maryland, USA

how about a QB specific question that only a programmer would know that has to be verified before a new account can be created? Something that a determined person could google if they needed to, but hard enough to discourage malicious behavior?

burger2227 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 878 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

This board is old, but perhaps forcing users to enter a group of random letters to join could keep the SPAM BOTS out.

I have no idea how they can message everybody yet!

Ted
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Seb McClouth · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject:

how about a bot who's programmed to find out every possible function (limited or unlimited) a forum has? The programmers are getting smarter and the programs (or bots if you prefere) are getting bigger... so who knows...
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