Spam: We are working on it. Have patience. [Archive]

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

01-31-2010, 01:48 PM

"Electronic Jamming . . . "

Welcome to the party folks!

Speaking of. Over at CNN there's a "Ticker" something along the lines of: Bush was mistaken, GOP says. I keep getting a 403 error and cannot read it. If anyone else can, would you please post it in the world forums or something?

TheBang

01-31-2010, 04:53 PM

I've banned those 3. If there are any more, post their names here, I guess.

sola sistim

02-02-2010, 07:24 PM

TheBang
jOHN rODRIGUEZ
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jOHN rODRIGUEZ

02-02-2010, 08:21 PM

jOHN RODRIGUEZ

You did my name wrong, and as an artist I'm very offended. There's meaning to it all dammit.

sola sistim

02-03-2010, 04:06 AM

You did my name wrong, and as an artist I'm very offended. There's meaning to it all dammit.

sorry, fixed.

mkb

02-09-2010, 01:41 PM

I keep getting them from:
AdministrationTeam
ForumTeamSupports
ForumTeam

I suppose I'm not alone. Bah!

taoyoyo

02-09-2010, 07:02 PM

nope... i've had 4 in the past couple of days.

it's good of the forum support to let me know i have issues with virii and a handy site to click on to make it all better though. :)

TheBang

02-09-2010, 07:39 PM

K, 6 or 7 users banned based on that.

Camiel

02-11-2010, 05:18 AM

They keep making new member names. I now get spammed by ModeratorTeam

mkb

02-11-2010, 08:30 AM

Now, why do I get emails from private messages but not emails from forum replies? Hmm.

Mike

02-11-2010, 12:05 PM

Is there any plugin we can use to prevent this spam?

stimpee

02-11-2010, 02:02 PM

I have a copy of Advanced IP Ban Manager for vBulletin 3.6/3.7/3.8. It can be implemented fairly painlessly but the instructions say that its heavily recommended to do a db backup. I'm an admin, but i dont have file system access to check and see if there is filespace to make the backup. Me and Yannick being a few timezones away doesnt help communication.

Sappys Curry

02-11-2010, 03:06 PM

Um, I just got a PM from some "RootModeratorX" or something like that saying he is an administrator here. He said I have a virus and that I should click on the URL given to have a system check. Before this, I saw a message that said "Would you like a reader receipt?". I clicked yes on the reader receipt. I reread the message and was hesitant on clicking on the URL given, and then I looked at the name of the person sending the PM and saw that he is banned (said so under his name).

So I suspect he is trying to spread viruses, or at the least, promote a virus scan site. I didn't click on the URL. Is there a problem with clicking yes on the reader receipt? Is that something to be suspicious of (I'm fearing the worst, like it slipped in a trojan my anti-virus software didn't catch)?

Or does clicking yes on the message that popped up mean nothing bad? My anti-virus software is good (Avast).

Strangelet

02-11-2010, 11:35 PM

um.. about 2 or 3 am last night my computer was hijacked by malware, specifically Spywareguard 2008. I really have no idea where I got it. It was a work computer so I was behind some fairly substantial layers of proxies and firewalls. Not to mention the fact that my being at work meant I was not indulging in any gentlemanly proclivities. (my little pony cos-play porn yay!) What I did just do however is go through my private messages on this site.

The first thing that happened was fire fox hanged and the adobe reader helper process crashed.

Took 3 hours of safe mode quarantining with various tools to eradicated it.

just an fyi

TheBang

02-12-2010, 09:33 PM

OK, finally found the IP banning section of the Admin CP, and added ModeratorTeam's IP to it (six other accounts from that IP too).

We may, however, need a more dynamic blocking tool, so I will look into that and try to get in touch with yan too.

froopy seal

02-14-2010, 10:02 AM

gentlemanly proclivitiesThank you for a most beautiful addition to my vocabulary!

ThingInABook

02-15-2010, 09:58 AM

'sup.

i've recieved two PMs with spam. silly bots.

ndrwrld

02-16-2010, 07:44 AM

i log in here about every week, and every week, there's close to 10 spamizms from these wankers.
and finally, a message back from Oceanic !:D

ndrwrld

02-18-2010, 05:17 PM

since my last post, another spamizm.
sort this shit out, Admins !

froopy seal

02-19-2010, 07:55 AM

i log in here about every week, and every week, there's close to 10 spamizms from these wankers.
and finally, a message back from Oceanic !:DI never receive any PMs. :(

taoyoyo

02-19-2010, 08:09 PM

Anyone else had a PM from Serendipity?

BeautifulBurnout

02-20-2010, 01:45 AM

Just banned em. Also AlexModerator. Excellent new nick for an unknown Polish ISP. John The Revelator I can cope with. Alex Moderator sounds a tad off to me.... :p

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

02-20-2010, 12:01 PM

Gee, thx. I guess I should have been posted more inaccurate information then my posts wouldn't have been considered spam?

Nothing makes sense anymore. Again.

holden

02-20-2010, 05:01 PM

Just banned em. Also AlexModerator. :p

The latest comes from AlexAdministrator. Alex really wears a lot of hats!

bryantm3

02-20-2010, 10:24 PM

I just got this in my PM box:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/bryantm3/spam.png?t=1266729653

The username is AlexAdministrator. I've ignored it thusfar, but this is getting ridiculous— someone who isn't up-to-date on computer technology could think their dirty account is actually being threatened. There needs to be some kind of screening process for new usernames, like "Why do you want to be on dirty.org? What was your first Underworld experience?" This would easily do away with all these spam posters.

Mike

02-21-2010, 02:59 AM

Not everyone here likes underworld.

stimpee

02-21-2010, 09:32 AM

I've switched on email verification for new users, and no users with Admin / Forum / Moderator in. Lets see if it makes any difference. Can ban individual IPs with a plug in or by editing the .htaccess file manually (neither of which I can do).

Dirty0900

02-21-2010, 12:40 PM

Not everyone here likes underworld.

I'm here becuase I love the Underworld film. I can't believe that someone is recording that name. Lager lager lager.

Professor

02-22-2010, 12:38 AM

I thought this was a goth forum.

unwound floors

02-22-2010, 02:24 AM

Not everyone here likes underworld.

Who the hell are they? Didn't they do some crap tune called Underneath the Radar ages ago?

;)

stimpee

02-22-2010, 05:12 AM

Now now. Calm down.

Meanwhile, please post here, let me know if you get any more of this spam...

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02-22-2010, 09:31 AM

I thought this was a goth forum.

CLASS! :D

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

02-22-2010, 12:44 PM

If only we could eliminate all the spam reported in cable news & THEIR websites, huh?

cacophony

03-01-2010, 07:54 PM

came back after a very long board break today and found one of these spam messages in my inbox. didn't click anything within the message, mind you. still, when i closed the browser my avast virus detector app popped up with a warning that a virus/worm had been detected. the timing was uncanny.

just a heads up for anyone who opened the message. you might have caught an internet STD without realizing it.

stimpee

03-02-2010, 08:08 AM

apologies for that if thats the case. since i made the changes we havent had any more spam. fingers crossed.

Yannick

03-02-2010, 12:38 PM

will try to find a day this week to focus on thi

bas_I_am

03-02-2010, 04:19 PM

apologies for that if thats the case. since i made the changes we havent had any more spam. fingers crossed.
I guess not:

http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/showpost.php?p=119847&postcount=1

King of Snake

03-02-2010, 04:45 PM

well the "admin" pm spam has stopped so far at least. Not so much we can do about random spammers posting on the forum. At least they seem to be contained to the bound forum (not sure why) and we'll delete (or modify) any offending posts asap :)

Fishtank

03-27-2010, 11:52 PM

I got one of these as well
I find it strange, I never get these on higher traffic forums

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03-28-2010, 08:14 AM

I find it strange, I never get these on higher traffic forums

quality, not quantity, dear chap ;)

Dunwho

04-04-2010, 01:17 PM

AGHHHH So fucking frustrating! Im watching this motherfucker bot spam the site and I cant do anything to stop it.... grrrrrr

Id totally shoot my comp screen right now if i knew itd do anyhting

ndrwrld

04-04-2010, 01:36 PM

lol at not being able to do anything about it.
there must be something...

TheBang

04-04-2010, 04:36 PM

AGHHHH So fucking frustrating! Im watching this motherfucker bot spam the site and I cant do anything to stop it.... grrrrrr
If you'd post the username, that'd be helpful...

Dunwho

04-04-2010, 06:49 PM

It was this user: EnjoyncPoopsySkinCare (http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forums/member.php?u=11191) but they are all gone now.. so i suppose it was dealt with.

Do you think we get spammed more because of /dirty/forums ... the dirty meaning we dig porn or something?

sola sistim

04-05-2010, 06:37 AM

ThingInABook

04-05-2010, 11:12 AM

JoshuaaNave is also sending spam via PM

Dunwho

04-05-2010, 11:27 AM

who doesnt dig porn?

Pope Ben.... no wait... my bad ;)

Seems everyone does...

Dunwho

04-12-2010, 03:23 PM

Just letting you know got a spam PM from "JosephWard"

TheBang

04-12-2010, 11:42 PM

Banned him. Same IP as JoshuaaNave, so I banned the IP too.

Steven Beck

04-21-2010, 05:05 AM

Hi I just logged in and have 5 messages that I checked.

I clicked a link to a site that said I have virus click here and I immediately shit my pants. It was a mustard-yellow colour and had the consistency of hot toothpaste, and there was lots of it. I got most of it off with toilet paper but some of it behind my knees is kind of stuck.

Please admins stop this madness.