Author Topic: Porn on site  (Read 8866 times)

Offline JCDenton

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Porn on site
« on: June 28, 2011, 07:29:28 AM »
I have opened the site on the laptop infront of family (children here too) to find hardcore porn on the thread! Had to explain that i havnt been looking at porn and the forum had been spammed. Im not happy.

I would think that because potential customers are viewing the site you would be more interested in keeping the site updated to block it.

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Offline billymaya

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 09:01:31 AM »
i have to agree it seems to be getting worse every day i know the mods are doing there hardest to clear it it (thanks guys) but its almost as if a spammers turned round to all his mates and said here lads this forums a dead easy target, im just wondering if all our sign in information we have on the site is secure ;S

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 09:13:38 AM »
You will be pleased to know the forum is running the latest version of the software available however I do not believe this has been the cause of the recent spam increase.

What you may not realise is that this forum takes time and people to run it. Time which projump do not have. There are not really a lot of options to tackle this sort of spam and if it keeps on going the way it is then Projump may have to look at the idea of ditching the forum altogether.
These things usually go away after a while. The few forums I have run do get increase in spam attacks, but they only last a few weeks before trying elsewhere. Hopefully this will be the case here.

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2011, 10:32:39 AM »
Worst case couldnt we just revert to having a admin have to confirm each new user before they can post like many other forums do? Would help with some of it because a lot of spam bots sign up and post instantly. I know its a hassle to the mods still but could be better than the porn topics etc.

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2011, 12:58:00 PM »
First of all I'd like to apologise for the recent spike in spam on the site, Myself and the mods have been trying to catch it as fast as we can however at present it is winning - I have checked on the SMF Forums and it seems that this is something that is affecting many forums since the last couple of weeks so it's not unique to us and this seems more like an SMF vulnerability rather than PJF. I understand your concerns and share them and at present trying our best to combat them but for now can only apologise for this. 

I've updated the forum yesterday evening with the latest version but this hasn't stopped the spam, I have now added extra security questions at registration and will monitor if this reduces the amount we are getting and take it from there. If these measures do not reduce it we may need to take drastic measure.

If anyone notices the spam I would appreciate if you hit the "report to moderator" button as this quickens the process.

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Offline Jason

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2011, 06:36:59 PM »
Sorry about that JC

A word of advice mate most of the spam that comes here seems to have russian type characters in the title so don't open those if your in the family room

They are quite easy to spot if you look carefully so hopefully that will stop you any embarassment untill we get on top of it

One word of excuse while we are at it I have some mates that are on different forums and they all seem to be having the same problems at the moment

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Offline Chrishead

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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2011, 08:34:03 PM »
Theres always the possibility of switching forum software, i know that mybb can convert smf databases so thats always an option, install them to sub directories and test them out etc but thats obviously a worst case option.
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Re: Porn on site
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2011, 09:49:05 PM »
Just an aside here

Naz runs this forum as a sort freebee for all us bockers

She also runs several other comercial ones like Ghostbikes etc

The others pay for themselves whereas this one is such a niche product I would imagine it already takes up more time than it's worth and can be a major pain when we get a run on spam like this

I and all the Mods give our time for free and can't with the best will in the world be online at all times as we have jobs so we can eat  :Cbiggrin:

So although we all try our best  some will get through
We do apreciate all you guys getting mail to us to warn us quickly about the spam but please give Naz a break on this as I know she's overworked as it is

Shame we couldn't spam the spam site (DOS attacks are illegal arn't they  :Claugh:) but nice to think about it  :Cbiggrin:

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