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The spam sure has been heavy today, I've deleted a good 40 or 50 posts and threads in all forums since midnight

Should have time to keep cleaning tomorrow and xmas, but not frequently, so I'll do my best.

Your not wrong, i dont know how many times ive jumped on to see a link for brittany spears sucking

These losers obviously have nothing better to do

Most are automated spambots. Out of the 20 or so that have signed up in the last two days it appears only a few have actually posted so far but it would be wise to clean them all out.

I run a private 4wd and camping forum and we've had to set it to Admin activation of new accounts to stop the spambots.

Sadly I can't delete them, only Oliver can

Can you ban them? If so, make sure you ban the IP addresses as well. That can slow them down a fair bit.

Sorry, but I can't do anything to users or change the setup of forums, all I can do is delete, edit, move, sticky and lock

NTRabbit wrote:Sorry, but I can't do anything to users or change the setup of forums, all I can do is delete, edit, move, sticky and lock

Mate, you need to get Oliver to give you more functionality to stop these things. You might wake up tomorrow and find a couple of hundred more spam posts.

Emo wrote:

NTRabbit wrote:Sorry, but I can't do anything to users or change the setup of forums, all I can do is delete, edit, move, sticky and lock

Mate, you need to get Oliver to give you more functionality to stop these things. You might wake up tomorrow and find a couple of hundred more spam posts.

My head hurts

it doesn't even link to britney spears sucking

No it will just link to a real nasty virus

So will having Brittany suck your...

lethaldog wrote:No it will just link to a real nasty virus

Is that why Brit and whatshisface split ?

A virus ?

I would say it wouldnt be far from the truth

NTRabbit wrote:
My head hurts

So hows the mouse finger holding up? looks like another one is on his way in.

BTW whats the count up to now?

lethaldog wrote:I would say it wouldnt be far from the truth

i'd be prepared to risk it for a shot at the title

cheers

Schooner wrote:

NTRabbit wrote:
My head hurts

So hows the mouse finger holding up? looks like another one is on his way in.

BTW whats the count up to now?

I've lost count, but it looks like the worst might be over. Just have to wait for Oliver to clean out their accounts.

I'm not sure of my settings. I don't get any spam.

I managed to get ahold of Oliver, and he cleared all 101 spambots and banned any further registrations from .info addresses.

Hooray for Oliver!

Good job to Oliver & NTRabbit, i've been watching all the new users pop up. Most of them from the US advertising some crap, but they're gone before they even get to post!!

Things have been fairly quiet lately. It seems the spate of a spam registration posting 18 or 20 posts has stopped (perhaps due to some changes I made, but who knows).

Fingers crossed that things don't flare up again.

Cheers,

Oliver