Collateral Damage

orange

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#1
Jer, FF and mods, I went to Lee's page a few minutes ago and saw some of the watch/etc spammers we have had and the first one listed, aatoratrac, left unexploded HTML in the gallery but no pics. I have not explored any further but after the announcement that we had over 80 spams from one spammer at once it dawned on me to look for shrapnel at that point.

It looks as if some manual vacuuming will be needed to clean up the spammer shedding.
:spiderman:
 

orange

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Actually, if each of you look at your own member pages I think you will find you have been visited by members with fairly strange, somewhat nonsensical IDs, some that joined as recently as yesterday morning...

It is possible that some might be actual lurking members that would jump in but it's more than 50% likely that we are being cased.

Since we haven't extended greetings to them the circumstances must be interesting.

 

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I exploded the html and some shrapnel made a direct hit on the offender. The albums are now gone and the posters account had been deleted. Yes some of the other members names look suspicious. We will look into it.
 
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orange

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Click on your own ID and then visit your profile, then look at the last 10 visitors list. Right-click or what ever you might do if you use an Apple or other to open the ID of anybody listed in another page. look for any activity. None? GOOD, but as I was saying there was at least one that least stuff in the Photo Gallery that ended up being just a list of HTML lines because it didn't work like they thought.

If you manage to find dubious stuff, take it to the staff directly, as always.

Apparently it's that time of whatever for happy 1d10ts.

Thanls Web!
 
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