Admin Alex Posted April 9, 2009 Admin Share Posted April 9, 2009 Sorry that I was unable to notify the reason for the site being down for the last day, I had to immediately take down the forums as we had been infilitrated by spammers which were sending out thousands of emails and PM. It was noted at one point 1500 emails per hour were being sent and the quickest way to deal with this was to immidiately take down the forums until the solution had been resolved. IPB the makers of this software have just realised a patch which has fixed this issue. http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/2829...ip-board-2-3-6/ Thanks to all of those who have pointed out the spam messages and notifying us of the site down time. Cheers Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulster exile Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Thanks for sorting it, although I was a little disappointed to receive an email telling I'd a pm, then not being able to get onto the site all day and then finding out it was spam. Oh the disappointment lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoKz Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 yea a typical spam mail the pm read " please help me " hover over the link its a russian site, so probally full of spyware/viruses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas up - Let's Go! Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Thanks to all of those who have pointed out the spam messages and notifying us of the site down time. Cheers Alex # Alex - just a suggestion, but what about setting up a facebook group for times such as these, you can just send a message to the group and it's independant of this forum ?? We use this system on another forum and it works quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Airhead Posted April 9, 2009 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2009 # Alex - just a suggestion, but what about setting up a facebook group for times such as these, you can just send a message to the group and it's independant of this forum ?? We use this system on another forum and it works quite well. Darren, FYI there is already a facebook group set up, you will see the link in Alexigno's signature area. I take your point though that it would be a good way for Alex to keep us informed, thats a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Alex Posted April 9, 2009 Author Admin Share Posted April 9, 2009 Darren, that's a great idea. I never actually thought about using the facebook group for messaging when the site is down. I will do this in the future, see you on facebook :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoKz Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 i would have reported it but when i got the pm i was sleeping lol and by the time i woke up the site was down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gas up - Let's Go! Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Actually, I realy don't like the whole FaceBook thing - but it does have it's uses! I've joined the group, so next time there's a problem I'll get to find out about it!! Darren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldy Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 yea a typical spam mail the pm read " please help me " hover over the link its a russian site, so probally full of spyware/viruses The "Please help me" link was actually porn sites, didn't browse too long, Honest!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YamaGod Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Well, i was browsing the net, and found that this spammer is a serious problem. It uses two nicks, MUZRINKL and MIGNULIKZ. etname: DE-KEYWEB-IV descr: Keyweb AG IP Network country: DE admin-c: KWAG-RIPE tech-c: KWAG-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: KEYWEB-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered person: Hostmaster Day address: Keyweb AG address: Neuwerkstr. 45/46 address: 99084 Erfurt address: Germany phone: +49-361-658530 abuse-mailbox: [email protected] fax-no: +49-361-6585366 nic-hdl: KWAG-RIPE mnt-by: KEYWEB-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Alex Posted April 14, 2009 Author Admin Share Posted April 14, 2009 They are using people to get around the captcha, and then running bots once the account has been setup. Unfortunately there is no real way of actually stopping this, even manually approving all registrations wouldn't help. The best we can do is to monitor PM/Email usage and add flood control to the forums which will only allow users to send so many messages per hour. It's a little annoying though when responding to several PMs, I've even set this up on my admin account to ensure that the forums are as safe as possible. We're also looking at adding live chat functionality which should help with internal board communication. Watch this space :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison Motorsport Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 I did wonder why my PMs now have a sending restriction on how many can be sent in a given amount of time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YamaGod Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I did wonder why my PMs now have a sending restriction on how many can be sent in a given amount of time In several forums with this same problem, they started to control the flow on the site.And of course they installed the patch for this.There is not much more to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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