Emergency Bunker

choccygirl · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 42

I use FireFox and have an add on that looks at the security of sites - all of a sudden, the forum is bringing up all sorts of poor reputation messages. Anyone know why? Did something change? I think everything is the same here as the last time I visited. Shocked

syd · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 4154

I think Khalyn had the same issue with the same add-in. Nothing changed from my side of things, but then its all hosted at bizhat. Perhaps they have some less reputable forums Smile

choccygirl · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 42

Yeah I reckon that must be it because it's not a happy bunny. If I close the warning it just pops back up constantly. It's the WOT add-on btw, is that the same one?

khalyn · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 117

Yeah I get the same messages with WOT. I think it will be more to do with bizhat than anything else.

Single Serving Jack · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 2855 Location: [0, 0, 0, 0]

Sydney Sydney Sydney:

I'm getting tons of e-mails about new or deleted account names blahdy blahdy - should I be doing anything and how do I MAKE IT STOP.

Smile

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Single Serving Jack · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 2855 Location: [0, 0, 0, 0]

MAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOP
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syd · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 4154

Haha that's why I'm here as well. I authorised mage master the other day after a long time of not having to authorise anyone and I don't know if that kick started something. It's bloody annoying. I've come to see if there is a common address they're coming from so I can block them. For now though I'll take you off the admin list so you stop getting them. It's a bit relentless.
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Single Serving Jack · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 2855 Location: [0, 0, 0, 0]

THANKYOU

I did try to do that myself but I couldn't figure it out Embarassed

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mage master · Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 15 Location: here... were else?

syd · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 4154

Lol, I wasn't accusing you of being involved mm! I just wondered if the spambots have some way of seeing when a forum activates an account and thinks it's a good time to attack as it shows a forum is active. I don't know if that's possible or not, it's just we don't normally get new registrations and I never activate any username I don't recognise and it happened right after I activated you. When i'm on the pc next i'm going to check to see if it's possible to disable all registrations and if anyone wants in they'll have to message one of us at the other place and we'll arrange it from there. It's calmed down a little but they're still coming in.
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Boreas · Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 4408

Their comes a time when every bunker must close its doors to spam.
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mage master · Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 15 Location: here... were else?

oh right

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syd · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 4154

Just totting up how many spam registrations there had been before I switched it off - must be about 100! And I don't like it being untidy so I'm deleting them all from the memberlist one by one. Pesky spambots.
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mage master · Joined: 31 Dec 2010 Posts: 15 Location: here... were else?

is there not a way to select them all in one go? that would be easier Laughing

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