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I just removed a series of posts that were loaded with highly suspicious links, and banned the bot or spammer who loaded it. I am currently up to 15 posts removed. I would not be surprised to find more.
Please keep in mind, IF THE POST LOOKS WEIRD OR SUSPICIOUS, TRUST YOUR GUT... Avoid the post, DO NOT click on unknown links. Do not respond to it.
In this case, the post was obviously nonsense, and full of oddly named links.

Let a mod know when you see this. Again, do not touch those links.

Again... please DO NOT REPLY to these threads... It's pretty damned obvious what the posts are... just don't reply.

Countertrey wrote:Again... please DO NOT REPLY to these threads... It's pretty damned obvious what the posts are... just don't reply.

Pretty sure I deleted them all, but if they come back, just avoid them.

There's a robot lurking....?

tribeofjudah wrote:There's a robot lurking....?

They come in waves.

Irn-Bru wrote:

tribeofjudah wrote:There's a robot lurking....?

They come in waves.

And, this one is BIG...


And has a Russian accent...

I don't know if anyone running the website can modify the phpBB code. Maybe something like:

if(messageBody.contains("viagra")){ response.redirect "/fckOff"; }

Sorry php isn't a language I work with.

So, I have just cleaned out about 90 porn spam posts from a variety of spam bots. I believe the system Mark set up back in the late fall is still working... .so how did this happen? All of these bots were enrolled into the site in September and October, during the spam storm. They were basically just planted for activation at a later time. Diabolical! I doubt that we have cleaned them all... but we'll deal with it when the next storm happens.

Thanks for your patience, folks!

THANKS to you and the others here for all you go through for us

Countertrey wrote:So, I have just cleaned out about 90 porn spam posts from a variety of spam bots. I believe the system Mark set up back in the late fall is still working... .so how did this happen? All of these bots were enrolled into the site in September and October, during the spam storm. They were basically just planted for activation at a later time. Diabolical! I doubt that we have cleaned them all... but we'll deal with it when the next storm happens.

Thanks for your patience, folks!

Thank you and by the way what happened to this forum. It use to be full. Do we need to help advertise or what?

mastdark81 wrote:

Countertrey wrote:So, I have just cleaned out about 90 porn spam posts from a variety of spam bots. I believe the system Mark set up back in the late fall is still working... .so how did this happen? All of these bots were enrolled into the site in September and October, during the spam storm. They were basically just planted for activation at a later time. Diabolical! I doubt that we have cleaned them all... but we'll deal with it when the next storm happens.

Thanks for your patience, folks!

Thank you and by the way what happened to this forum. It use to be full. Do we need to help advertise or what?

I suspect that all Redskins forums are struggling a bit... it takes some excitement for the team to move the forums... There's not a lot of excitement in Redskins territory right now.

Yeah, folks... more deposits today... more "deep cover" spam bots with join dates of mid October '16. Killed a bunch of them before they could post, but some got through... I won't be surprised if more pop up overnight, but we'll clean then as quickly as we can... Please remember... DON'T CLICK THE LINKS.

Countertrey wrote:Yeah, folks... more deposits today... more "deep cover" spam bots with join dates of mid October '16. Killed a bunch of them before they could post, but some got through... I won't be surprised if more pop up overnight, but we'll clean then as quickly as we can... Please remember... DON'T CLICK THE LINKS.

... annnnnnd... they were back. Dumped a load overnight... cleaned up for now... I'm sure there are more...

THANKS

My thanks, as well. It was tedious just to note the obvious porn-spam garbage. Must have been three times as tedious to kill them.

On to the season. No matter what, HTTR

another attack today... While there was spam all over the damned place, there were only 4 names used, all, again, registered before the new sign up procedures... Hopefully, the assholes are running out of assmoles. Forgive my self-indulgence of poor taste... but I deserve it! LOL