Are we getting hacked?

Chris Landi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:31 pm **Posts:** 579

'Sexmen' is getting into the Visitors forum and replying to posts with porn links. I've notified Jason but suspect he's busy. Whose his back-up?

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:57 pm

Chris Landi wrote:

'Sexmen' is getting into the Visitors forum and replying to posts with porn links. I've notified Jason but suspect he's busy. Whose his back-up?

Hopefully, it's fixed now. FYI, I am the backup now. Richard Casto is the person to contact in the future.

Chris Landi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:31 pm **Posts:** 579

Looks like it's been taken care of...

Rich Anderson · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:00 pm

Well that was fun. Jason, any chance you can PM me that list? I lost the cached version and never made it past 'S'. :lol4:

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:01 pm

Rich Anderson wrote:

Well that was fun. Jason, any chance you can PM me that list? I lost the cached version and never made it past 'S'. :lol4:

You dirty, dirty man!

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:02 pm

Rich Anderson wrote:

Well that was fun. Jason, any chance you can PM me that list? I lost the cached version and never made it past 'S'. :lol4:

For $10, I'll PM anyone the list.

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:05 pm

I just happened to be on a few minutes ago and deleted posts and also edited any quotes that contained the links.

This is most likely automated spam that knows how to post via guest accounts on the forum software we use. Which is why you only see it in the "Vistor" forum as you don't need to register to post. Short of shuting down that public part of our forum, I don't know what we can do to stop this.

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:06 pm

Richard Casto wrote:

I just happened to be on a few minutes ago and deleted posts and also edited any quotes that contained the links.

This is most likely automated spam that knows how to post via guest accounts on the forum software we use. Which is why you only see it in the "Vistor" forum as you don't need to register to post. Short of shuting down that public part of our forum, I don't know what we can do to stop this.

That's what I did for now. Once the guests have disappeared from the recent visitors list, we can open it back up.

MilesBeam · **Joined:** Fri Aug 15, 2003 1:57 pm **Posts:** 427

Isn't there a feature to require moderator approval of the postings in the guest forum?

I know that adds more work for the moderators, but on the other hand, we don't get that many legitimate visitor postings...

Just a thought.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:55 pm

Or is there a mod for phpBB to force you to have to enter the text from one of those images that's all blurry? You could force that each time a "visitor" wanted to post. Then bots can't do it, which is what's doing it...

--Donnie

Richard Casto · **Posted:** Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:56 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

Or is there a mod for phpBB to force you to have to enter the text from one of those images that's all blurry? You could force that each time a "visitor" wanted to post. Then bots can't do it, which is what's doing it...

--Donnie

This is what we need to look into.

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