ron p 500 Report post Posted March 4, 2003 you post a harmless joke about stripping and now you have a world of porn crap on this site. It is not sabatoge is it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Beth n Rod 1,279 Report post Posted March 5, 2003 No I checked with VBulliten today. There are things called BOTS that go out and hit sites with email addresses. LOTS of BBS's are getting hit. The Grime Scene is in the search engines. I just have to get used to the controls.... All the ones listed hit us. They register, then they wait a period of time, then they hit every thread with a link. I have pruned all the threads. All we have to do is post over the names. The URLs generating the addresses have been banned, there were actuall two, one I caught before the spam started! (YAHOO!) Believe be I plan to keep a careful check on that from now on. I also set the spamming control higher. I had it set too low. Sorry guys! You'll notice a delay in posting. (80 seconds between posts) Beth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Ron Musgraves 240 Report post Posted March 5, 2003 Cant your server protect you,, PHP is not secure but the server should protect you from this? ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Beth n Rod 1,279 Report post Posted March 6, 2003 They have rules against spamming, so reporting does help. VBulletin has a fix. So I upgraded and we are good to ho. No more spammers! I also have the addresses blocked. There is a visual piece to the registration screen now, you see an image and have to verify it. The BOTs can't do that. Believe me, I was livid about it when I saw it happening. I was up WAY early fixing it, then one of the scripts was corrupt. My thanks go to one of the VBulletin Developers over in Scotland who was online aand logged in and fixed it for me. (programmer stuff) We will be fine now. Beth :) p.s. same version now as *** Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Mike Hughes 18 Report post Posted March 9, 2003 No, I still have *** running 2.2.9...........havent gotten to that yet. But I did upgrade Gutter Source to the 2.3.0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Beth n Rod 1,279 Report post Posted March 14, 2003 I had upgraded to 2.2.9, so the programmer must have upgraded us to 2.3.0 to fix the problem I had during the process of upgrading. Good eye! I missed that. Beth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Jon 533 Report post Posted March 14, 2003 Without using THAT word all I can say is both Beth and Rod did a super job of removing it ALL! If I did wood work I would use their products for sure. Jon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
you post a harmless joke about stripping and now you have a world of porn crap on this site.
It is not sabatoge is it?
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