Ant Man Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Bill,Tell me where to send a donation for getting some strong antivirus protection on the site.As much enjoyment as I get from the site you made, I'd love to help you get full control of it back.Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Thanks Paul,Most of what is still showing up is from spammers that joined in the last 2 weeks and I am weeding them out as we move along. The forum is now much more secure and things will be back to normal soon. Thanks for the thought, but we'll get it handled. The two med ones that I just nuked joined on 12th January when the attacks were going the strongest....It is a pain in the butt I know and now all new members are screened manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Man where are these idiots coming from? :*&$*(: :*&$*(: And why are they showing up now all of a sudden? There's got to be something to keep them off the forum.Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Well I have found where they are still coming from and have been busy flagging spam accounts and deleting them for almost 40 minutes with many more to go. I have found over 50 that joined on 1-15-11 during our "attack" and there are a bunch more for me to delete. These member accounts are just sitting waiting....What a hassle, but shouldn't be able to happen again, I hope....Well back to deleting accounts.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I am at 156 spam accounts deleted and many pages to go... There are hundreds of these accounts added between 1-12-11 and 1-15-11.What a hassle.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Soloman Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I am at 156 spam accounts deleted and many pages to go... There are hundreds of these accounts added between 1-12-11 and 1-15-11.What a hassle....We love you man! Thank you for ALL of your hard work and time that you devote to us Bill. Sorry I became another headache for you yesterday, but I am back on my meds.. Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Man Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Here, here! I couldn't agree with Terry more."For he's a jolly good fellow..." That's you Bill!Great site, and we appreciate your long hours of fine tuning.Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Slim Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Hi Bill. Seeing as how AZO has the same spam problem, my guess is the main server has been hacked. Until that gets fixed there is nothing you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcache Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I wish I could help. Hell, I would drive down there to help deleting garbage one after another if I thought it would be useful. Hope you get away from puter soon and out lookin again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Hi Bill. Seeing as how AZO has the same spam problem, my guess is the main server has been hacked. Until that gets fixed there is nothing you can do.It is fixed at the server, the issue now is and was all the spam members that joined over the last couple weeks due to my security settings. I have deleted 480 spam accounts. They were all registered by a few "live" people and available to spammers for use, but not now....I have been working with IP Boards to resolve this issue and have over 8 hours into cleaning up this huge mess.... Had to manually remove each fraudulent account myself and add them to the spammer database.Still have more to do, but things should smooth out now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montana.matt Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Thanks for all you do Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mt_vertcaver Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Thanks for all the work. This is one of my favorite forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Hey Bill ... I guess I have been missing all the excitement on both yours and AZO's forums. I had to get a computer as the old one crashed and burned big time ... not even related to spammer action but sheer age and hard use. Now I can start my retirement with a fresh new computer. I even had to ask for my password to be reset on this forum because I had automatically logged in so many times over the tears that I forgot what I set it at and couldn't find it written down. Glad to see the worst is over ... until the SOB's find another way in.Thanks for all you do for us on the forum and elsewhere.Mike F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger P Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Hi Bill,As a recent "joinee" I want to say thanks to you for what you do for this forum. I can only imagine how much time you spent getting rid of the problems and still keeping track of what is going on. I have been away from detectors for a while but am about to get "hooked again.Thanks again,Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike C... Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 You know guys the best way to support this forum is to buy MD stuff from Bill Southern who runs and pays for our ciber play ground Mike C...:ph34r2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pairadiceau Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Bill, thanks for your continued service to this unusual community of seekers, wonderers, and philosophers. Great site!!!Paradiceau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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