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Postby Jimmy89 » Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:47 pm

What's going on with spam bots invasion on these forums? :o

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Postby Diatosta » Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:41 pm

I don't know, but Mary surely looks interesting XD
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Postby zoot » Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:26 pm

I keep removing them. I'll check out the security.
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Postby aaro4130 » Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:50 pm

I'll look into installing Cleantalk to get rid of the spambots for good. The only appropriate countermeasure against spambots is something of the sorts, or IP blocks. Simply deleting them will allow them to come back.
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Postby Diatosta » Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:13 pm

#TimeForCaptchas

#DontFollowWhatTheAboveHashtagSays
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Postby Seahawk » Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:49 am

Gotta go there and see what the hell's going on.. What the? I saw two topics which are named and written in Russian by their authors in an English forum. :evil:

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Postby aaro4130 » Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:04 pm

MMArchive forum is expected to be down for at least another few hours.

EDIT : Forums up again. Limited though
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Postby Jimmy89 » Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:57 pm

Spammers registered in the first half of December seem to be back into activity...

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Postby zoot » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:56 pm

Cleaned.
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Postby KingAndy » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:23 am

You guys should add the same verifying system added on the download screens as a registration confirmation.
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Postby zoot » Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:03 pm

You guys should add the same verifying system added on the download screens as a registration confirmation.
We have multiple systems in place.
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