ALERT - Spam Bot Activity

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 17:57    Post subject: ALERT - Spam Bot Activity Reply with quote
It seems apparent that in the past week, the forum has been getting beat up with spam activity. The concern from my perspective is that the accounts spamming the forum are random long-time registered accounts that have apparently been compromised, or so it seems. Just wanted everyone to be aware and suggest taking proper precautions.

Edit/Note 02.25.24:
  1. The following is a list of threads I dug up related to the constant plague of spam bots that has come and gone and come back for many years:
    Spam Posts/Threads....
    Can we have/do we need a "report" button for spam
    Do we need an option to report spam messages?
    26 pages of spam
    Spam being posted on the forum
    Spam in the forums!
    SPAM on DD-WRT Broadcom forum
    Level of SPAM destroys this forum
    Spam reporting links for forum
  2. This forum software is going on 20 years old. We could have had a module installed for reporting spam or the forum could've been upgraded to 3.0.x back in 2010...

    Do we need an option to report spam messages?
    phuzi0n wrote:
    I've been trying to get the board updated for about a year now. A few days ago I was told that the upgrade to phpBB3 (which has this built in) has been put on hold. Rolling Eyes

  3. There was a renewed interest to upgrade to 3.2.x: Forum phpBB Update

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