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sweetie
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:32 am    Post subject: Hackers Reply with quote

This board is taken over by hackers every night!!!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Melvin (webmaster) is working on it. Somehow even after we "ban" them they figure out a way to get back it. It's frustrating and time consuming. Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unfortunately, this is a common problem....... wish they would find something useful to do!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

~Amy~® wrote:
Melvin (webmaster) is working on it. Somehow even after we "ban" them they figure out a way to get back it. It's frustrating and time consuming. Evil or Very Mad


Maybe the sign-up should be changed to that is takes 'human' intervention by webmaster(s) before a newcomer can become a member. Since there are not a lot of legitimate people signing up, it shouldn't be much extra load on the webmaster.

The default method of just verifying an email address that most BB's use is too easy for the spammers who probably have access to many disposable addresses.

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Melvin Trost
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you all!

we add some additional codes and made some changes. It helps for a while.
And if it starts again, we change some things again.

Spammers / hackers: we have them everyday on our servers, so that's why
we a) seperate e-mail and webserver b) and more things to prevent.

Because we program a lot of anti-spam scripts ourselves, it is little bit harder
for spammers to do it. But this BB is not our software, but we made some changes. Sometimes they take the time to investigate what we did, they can spam.... So everytime we have to be smarter Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:44 am    Post subject: Thank you!! Reply with quote

I didn't realize how difficult it is..
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Al Newcomb
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:01 am    Post subject: Spam Reply with quote

Melvin,thanks for all the work you do to keep this board clean of Spammers. Al & Paula. Cool
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Corrine
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Spam Reply with quote

Al Newcomb wrote:
Melvin,thanks for all the work you do to keep this board clean of Spammers. Al & Paula. Cool


Yes, thanks from me as well!

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great job Melvin! Thanks a lot.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like "sajjadali" got around the new security!!
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~Amy~®
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orrin wrote:
It looks like "sajjadali" got around the new security!!


I saw that...time to delete/ban him until Melvin can take care of it again.

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