Spammerama

Jeff Westover · Nov 16, 2006

Greetings from Reno. Just stopped in long enough here to see if things are ok. Been a busy 40-hours or so I can see from the logs. The spammers have been a-hackin' away. Everything looks ok though. Anyone notice anything weird in the last day or so?

Jeff

dominick · Nov 16, 2006

We've been getting hit with the same old stuff. Been seeing a lot of the "Shakira" spammer.

mrshfromjersey · Nov 16, 2006

I haven't really been on much due to my rejoining the work force. I know dvdguy, dominick and Elfworks have been on top of the spammers that have been around.

Jeff Westover · Nov 16, 2006

Yep, I can see a trend in their choice of usernames. Weird. Seems they are using both bots and human signups. I just banned a guy who was live on the forums and got him based on usernames and email addies...he never got to post. Just keep an eye out, that's all we can do.

Jeff

dominick · Nov 16, 2006

Erv nailed a couple last night, too.

mrshfromjersey · Nov 16, 2006

Jeff - I'll bet you are looking forward to some time home with the family during Thanksgiving.

dominick · Nov 16, 2006

We have a live one on right now... just zapped one of his posts.

Andrew232

RavenHardt · Nov 16, 2006

great job everyone !!!

Michael Rielly · Dec 22, 2006

Why do we keep the spammers logins?

Jeff Westover · Dec 23, 2006

We don't "keep" them. We register links and emails in the db to help build work-arounds to links they post so that we can avoid from having them reposted. We're working on a purge to remove those unused, bogus registrations but it won't be done until sometime next month.