Pete's QBASIC Site

fake admin

2010-03-30T13:47:14-05:00

how about a bot who's programmed to find out every possible function (limited or unlimited) a forum has? The programmers are getting smarter and the programs (or bots if you prefere) are getting bigger... so who knows...

Statistics: Posted by Seb McClouth — Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:47 pm

fake admin

2010-03-23T01:08:30-05:00

This board is old, but perhaps forcing users to enter a group of random letters to join could keep the SPAM BOTS out.

I have no idea how they can message everybody yet!

Ted

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:08 am

fake admin

2010-03-22T20:28:49-05:00

how about a QB specific question that only a programmer would know that has to be verified before a new account can be created? Something that a determined person could google if they needed to, but hard enough to discourage malicious behavior?

Statistics: Posted by coma8coma1 — Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:28 pm

fake admin

2010-03-22T18:45:21-05:00

I removed a new imbicile who apparently waited a while and then mass messaged spam to all members.

Once they are tossed, the message diasappears too.

Ted

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:45 pm

fake admin

2010-03-22T18:14:18-05:00

Dunno if this ties into the problem or not, but i just got an email saying i had a private message and when i checked there was nothing there...which i thought was weird anyway since i haven't used this account for almost 3 years.

Statistics: Posted by SCC — Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:14 pm

fake admin

2010-02-26T03:56:16-05:00

This crap is keepings the mods busy on a few other forums I frequent. I'm not sure what all's being done to combat it.

Statistics: Posted by coma8coma1 — Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:56 am

fake admin

2010-02-10T22:22:37-05:00

And now one from ModeratorTeam.

Statistics: Posted by ThemePark — Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:22 pm

fake admin

2010-02-09T18:12:49-05:00

Yep, I just got one from BestForumAdmin. Pete, you need more admins here to take care of this stuff or this forum's going to spammer hell.

Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:12 pm

fake admin

2010-02-08T22:48:56-05:00

Aw, I didn't get the message. I feel so left out.

Statistics: Posted by Mentat — Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:48 pm

fake admin

2010-02-08T18:17:10-05:00

Yeah, first ForumAdmin, and now BestForumAdmin. Sigh, stupid spam.

And I thought that for the first time ever someone was actually honestly contacting me

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:17 pm

fake admin

2010-02-08T17:21:52-05:00

got a new one from BestForumAdmin or something like that...deleted it before really looking at it...

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edit wow I haven't posted here in a while...my avatar is like 4 years old

Statistics: Posted by Deleter — Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:21 pm

fake admin

2010-02-03T01:10:05-05:00

I really don't know actually, but I am not clicking it because normally it turns into a personal assault from anonymous buttheads trying to protect me! I NEED PROTECTED FROM THEM usually.

Last week, I tried to update some drivers for a sound attachment gadjet and now it keeps popping up! So I uninstalled the CRAP and now I get a DLL NOT FOUND ERROR. Welcome to Regedit if you can find me...

MAKE ME REINSTALL XP AGAIN! MAKE ME UPDATE ALL OF THE WINDOWS UPDATES! The solutions are WORSE than the problems anymore. Everybody is a crook or a thief as far as the web goes! I BEEN THERE!

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:10 am

fake admin

2010-02-02T18:50:41-05:00

What is EK's link?

Statistics: Posted by Pete — Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:50 pm

fake admin

2010-01-31T13:53:35-05:00

Well, shouldn't EK's link be removed too?

Only a jerk would post it in the forum!

Ted

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:53 pm

fake admin

2010-01-31T11:51:35-05:00

It appears like every user on the forum got it.

I have banned this IP and deleted the account. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.

I installed an Anti-Spam suite for this forum a while ago and up to this point, it had been nearly flawless at blocking spambots. Only human spammers were able to post anything. I'm hoping, at the very least, that this was a human spammer and not a bot.

Statistics: Posted by Pete — Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:51 am