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raffytaffy
May 15th, 2007, 04:35 PM
What is goin on. in the last 10 minutes i had to report a whole bunch of similar spam posts. How do these ppl post so much spam in such a short period of time?

Ozor Mox
May 15th, 2007, 04:36 PM
It's not people it's scripts that are registering hundreds of accounts and posting on all the threads (apparently starting from the oldest).

raffytaffy
May 15th, 2007, 04:37 PM
:(!

Extreme Coder
May 15th, 2007, 04:40 PM
Lots of 2004 posts appearing, that's very wierd...

Extreme Coder

PriceChild
May 15th, 2007, 04:42 PM
We're aware of the situation.

The moderator team are doing their best to contain things, please continue reporting all spam you see. Thank you very much for your help :)

Pricey

ubuntu-geek
May 15th, 2007, 04:42 PM
It appears someone has an automated script to create accounts and post. We are looking into it.

M$LOL
May 15th, 2007, 04:46 PM
Isn't that image thing supposed to prevent them from registering in the first place?

warlock_handler
May 15th, 2007, 05:30 PM
Isn't that image thing supposed to prevent them from registering in the first place?

Well brother the image thingy is called CAPTCHAs, and well nowadays people spend more time cracking something than inventing something... well chk this site.. it has few famous CATCHAs and how to defeat them..
http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/sites/

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