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General => Reality Fan Wiki => Topic started by: G.B. on January 08, 2014, 03:36:14 PM

Title: Advertisment Bots
Post by: G.B. on January 08, 2014, 03:36:14 PM

Recently, some malicious users or bots have created a bunch of phony pages in the User: Namespace filled with adverts and links to possibly malicious sites. I think it's important for these to be removed.

http://realityfanwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges See here to see them.

Title: Re: Advertisment Bots
Post by: georgiapeach on January 08, 2014, 09:35:57 PM

Have you let DOM know?? 

Title: Re: Advertisment Bots
Post by: G.B. on January 08, 2014, 11:46:22 PM

Yeah, the problem has been rectified now. All's clear!

Title: Re: Advertisment Bots
Post by: georgiapeach on January 09, 2014, 04:13:48 AM

Great!

Title: Re: Advertisment Bots
Post by: theschnauzers on January 12, 2014, 08:03:17 PM

This problem is showing up in other forum message boards hosted by other services. One forum I am an admin at has been seeing adspammers who are not only able to evade the Captcha device, they also are getting past email verification in setting up a user account.

It is a pain to deal with, and we're not sure what a long term solution is unless the host of the forum servers makes modifications to deal with these latest evasions. Just a FYI.