OK - what happened today?
Well, someone scripted a "bot" (an application to do certain functions on web servers - good or bad depending on intent) that would access forums much like S-B's that would register, and reply spam to existing posts. Now this script is crafty in the sense that it searches for specific message board types, uses somewhat random names from random ip addresses often using remote proxies from other parts of the world. What does it do? at this point, not much more than spam links.
I know of a few hundred forums this has happened to and their may be thousands more as this picks on all kinds of sites - big & small.
I have a plan to prevent this from happening again and it will be executed throughout the next 2 days. Everything should be pretty much normal now. I will also partner up with numerous other web owners affected by this and we will likely pursue legal action on this.
Again, this does nothing other than spam right now and no negative damage of any sort - just REALLY FRIEKING ANNOYING
Thanks & I'll address any questions (other than specific security measures relative to this site for obvious reasons
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