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Spam from so called Forum Administration

Postby arnie » 06 May 2009

Hi.

I'd like to warn all the users and tssuport that someone that call himself forum administration is sending private messages with a link to a Viagra webpage.

Is there a way to stop this kind of spam?

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Fernando

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Postby Andrew Kirillov » 11 May 2009

Unfortunately the spammers use "holes" in the forum engine we use and it is not feasible to stop them. We tried to search for solutions, but failed.

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Postby arnie » 11 May 2009

But if i'm not mistaken, you have access to the IP address of all that connects to the forum. Why not block their IP address?

Isn't this forum closed to non MC costumers in terms of posting messages?

You could also hire someone to clean the forum.
Your member list is full of "so called users" with links to porn websites and alike.

There are ways to maintain a clean forum, though you would probably need someone 24/7 just to do that.



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Fernando

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Postby emptyvault » 17 May 2009

I got that message too . Feel annoying .

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Postby admin » 21 May 2009

The SPAM issues has been addressed. If you receive SPAM messages again please report in this thread.


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