Spam: We are working on it. Have patience.

[Camiel]

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

[mkb]

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

[Mike]

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

[stimpee]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

gentlemanly proclivities

Thank you for a most beautiful addition to my vocabulary!

[ThingInABook]

'sup.

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

[ndrwrld]

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 !