SPAM ALERT!

[Timballisto]

What the heck is a DDoS attack?

[Mindless]

What the heck is a DDoS attack?

Distributed Denial of Service Attack

[JM]

The spambots have returned  

[Leviathan]

Please don't react on those spammed topics as nobody even reads your reactions...and it gives the mods extra work.

Just let the mods do their work to delete the spam right after they discovered it and in the meantime,maybe we could try to automatically delete any post or thread containing the word "casino".

I don't know if it works,but maybe the program thinks the spam was posted but actually it was automatically deleted a second or so afterwards

[Timballisto]

We need to get some of the mods to come back who haven't been around - namely Lem'ka an TW. &#A0;I'll give them emails...

EDIT: Both of them have locked emails.

[JM]

It's only Lomay who seems to get aggravated by the spam.

[Timballisto]

Actually it bothers me too.  It's annoying and this isn't the place for it.  I'm not one for letting it sit around and create clutter.  It seems to get longer after it spams a couple times, obviously enough.  You know, I don't understand it.  All that does is deter people.  Why do they think that gets people to come to their website?  The only reason I'd do that would be to get their address and fill IT with spam.

[tseug]

There were several very lengthy SPAMS (3 I think) in random topics. Blocking "<a href" may be the way to go.

EDIT: Or maybe DDoS. That site deserves it.

EDIT2: Especially since it somehow found this forum, which means that there are probably tons of other bots roaming around.

[Mr. K]

EDIT: Or maybe DDoS. That site deserves it.

You say we should do a DDoS to them?  That would just be like being worse than the spammer.  We need to try figuring this out in a more civilized way.

Blocking posts with ANY html is the way to go.  I'll bet this bot doesn't even know that we don't support HTML.  Maybe blocking the username that the bot uses would be good too, as it wouldn't be able to do anything.  Someone could maybe register under that name, making it unable to use it?

EDIT:  Anyone have a clue why this bot seems to post fragments of sentences somewhere in the HTML?  I can't see what it's supposed to be.  The sentences can't be connected either, like it's just a buncha rambling.

[Lomay]

It's only Lomay who seems to get aggravated by the spam.

me? &#A0;

Edit: i'm sorry  

[JM]

Lomay it's ok. I'm sure I have discovered a spambots e-mail address and I could try and hack it so it couldn't work again.

The e-mail address is something like this spambot5000@hotmail.co.uk

[Andi]

T stop the spambots for now I disabled guestposting and every account must be activated within 24 hours by email. I'm sorry I had to do this. But remember something? Slightly the same situation as we had once on LUDB. Only diference: back on LUDB it were actually humans.

[JM]

There's still several topics containing spam. Delete the posts that contain the word "casino"

[MC Marshy]

Yes there's still a few posts that these casino guy posted that need deleting! I'll find the posts and post them here for moderators to sort out.

http://forum.lemmingswelt.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1116111874/21#21
http://forum.lemmingswelt.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132961704/1#1
http://forum.lemmingswelt.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1089242774/790#790

They still  contain the spam that the casino guy posted.

[Andi]

Has been deleted.