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[AB]

Hi folks,

We have been inundated with spam lately so to combat this I have put a heavy restriction on members who sign up and have not confirmed their email.

If you do not confirm your email when you sign up then you will not be able to post anything.

We currently have 5000 members who are in this list, if you find that you are already a member and cannot post on the forum, then click this line here (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/contact-us.html) and fill out the contact form with your email address and your username and I will sort you out.

A lot of the 5000 members were spam and non regular members so hoping this does not restrict people.

Anyways, some spammers will slip through if they get their email confirmed but this should knock a lot of it on the head!

Note: when you sign up, the forum will send you an email to confirm you are real. This may take a minute or two to send the email as well so please be patient, it will send you an email if you put the correct email address in when you signed up.

[growler2058]

Then we'll have their emails and can spam the spammers bwahahahhahahaha

[Drewboyaus]

Yeah hit them with a Trojan mother load!

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[Clunk]

Hey AB, what have you done to my account mate, I can't post!!!!!!!

[jack]

Great, looks like its working as designed

[NissanGQ4.2]

I just banned one then with 5 spam posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AB]

I just banned one then with 5 spam posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who was that?

[NissanGQ4.2]

Don't remember but just banned another one posting up link to gay porn

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/showthread.php?30092-Communal-pictures

So there still happily spamming away :(

[NissanGQ4.2]

This was the one Andy

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/showthread.php?30087-haur-naukifrubpqv

[Clunk]

Are they putting the links in their signatures again?

[AB]

Lets give it 24 hours and assess...

[NissanGQ4.2]

24hrs hrs is up and its still farked boss

Just banned 2, one for a link in a thread and this member called CKnox for signing up this morning and inserting a link into a visitor message 2 himself!!!!!

[growler2058]

Sneaky sneaky bastard

[NissanGQ4.2]

Sneaky sneaky bastard

Not wrong, makes me wonder how many others have signed up and done the same

[NissanGQ4.2]

Another one banned AB

ASmithers : Linking in his about information

[NissanGQ4.2]

Holy farken shit batman there farken linking sh!t is everywhere in visitor messages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AB]

It's a million times better though.


Can you show me an example mate.

The computer is firing up!

[NissanGQ4.2]

It's a million times better though.


Can you show me an example mate.

The computer is firing up!

Try this boss

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/search.php?searchid=4255216

There will only be a handful of legit ones in there, can usually tell by the members name if its a spammer or not

Edit: might not be as bad as first though as some are already banned but links are still there :(

[AB]

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.......................................

[NissanGQ4.2]

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weird the link works for me

Advanced search options

try keywords: http:www

and select visitor messages only

[growler2058]

Doesn't work for me either

[AB]

Relentless little buggers aren't they....

Hats off to them though, thats a good little sneaky trick as no one really sees it. They all need to confirm their email from now on so this will all be minimized and It's a PITA for them and they will run out of email addresses soon. I'll clean this crap up during the week.

[NissanGQ4.2]

And just change the date to the last week and newer to get the most relevant ones

[NissanGQ4.2]

Relentless little buggers aren't they....

Hats off to them though, thats a good little sneaky trick as no one really sees it. They all need to confirm their email from now on so this will all be minimized and It's a PITA for them and they will run out of email addresses soon. I'll clean this crap up during the week.

Is there an easy way for you 2 do it or is it all one by one removal?

[AB]

Is there an easy way for you 2 do it or is it all one by one removal?

I'll have to have a look but it may just be one by one.....Yep. fun times ahead.

[NissanGQ4.2]

I'll have to have a look but it may just be one by one.....Yep. fun times ahead.

No worries, Got a cold at the moment and feel like sh!t so depending on how I feel later 2night I'll try and do some 2 help you out.

But let me know if you can do it in one go or not

[AB]

No worries, Got a cold at the moment and feel like sh!t so depending on how I feel later 2night I'll try and do some 2 help you out.

But let me know if you can do it in one go or not

Its not looking good, I dont mind doing it mate. You just bring the search result up and middle click each result to open them up in a new window and start deleting...Still a crap job though.

[lucus30]

Relentless little buggers aren't they....

Hats off to them though, thats a good little sneaky trick as no one really sees it. They all need to confirm their email from now on so this will all be minimized and It's a PITA for them and they will run out of email addresses soon. I'll clean this crap up during the week.

I doubt this will stop them. Its pretty easy to sign up to one of those temporary email services. Best bet is to manually vet them requiring a manual admin approval ie send us a picture of your pootrol prior to getting posting status

[NissanGQ4.2]

I doubt this will stop them. Its pretty easy to sign up to one of those temporary email services. Best bet is to manually vet them requiring a manual admin approval ie send us a picture of your pootrol prior to getting posting status

I doubt it 2 :(

[NissanGQ4.2]

Its not looking good, I dont mind doing it mate. You just bring the search result up and middle click each result to open them up in a new window and start deleting...Still a crap job though.

Painful is an understatement, can't even ban the member and remove the visitor message at the same time so it you want 2 ban the member you have to remove the message then ban them :(

Edit: Andy are you able to do a mass visitor message prune in CP???

[Drewboyaus]

The spamming pricks have been busy today!

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[AB]

I've just been struggling with time lately folks, work is just out of control lately.

Toddy, don't stress about it mate. I couldn't find an easy mass cull of the visitor message but ill just manually do it myself bud and moving forward visitor public messaging is gone.

In regards to spammers, they are registering with email addresses and they can only use one email address for one account and cannot use that address again.

It did cull it but they are relentless and still coming in.

Plenty of other tricks I can do. I'm not home for hours but ill knock this on the head late tonight or tomorrow morning.

Relentless little buggers!!!!

[AB]

Thank you mods for deleting their crap too, gents, I would be rooted without you!!!

[NissanGQ4.2]

All good mate, I've been going though is slowly when I get time


I've just been struggling with time lately folks, work is just out of control lately.

Toddy, don't stress about it mate. I couldn't find an easy mass cull of the visitor message but ill just manually do it myself bud and moving forward visitor public messaging is gone.

In regards to spammers, they are registering with email addresses and they can only use one email address for one account and cannot use that address again.

It did cull it but they are relentless and still coming in.

Plenty of other tricks I can do. I'm not home for hours but ill knock this on the head late tonight or tomorrow morning.

Relentless little buggers!!!!

[AB]

Ok, just bought out the big guns...lol

Just installed an anti spam program that blocks all known spam users, email, IP addresses, etc.

Its linked up with hundreds of other forums and they all report to eachother automatically and everyone is updated with the banned list, etc.

We tried this a while ago and it worked a treat but occasionally a member or two couldn't get access to the forum.

I have excluded all users who have 25 posts or more but I cannot exclude the general new members so fingers crossed folks!

[growler2058]

Soooo I might get my early morning toilet forum time back? Yaaaaaay

[NissanGQ4.2]

Did you work out my reported post yesterday??????????????

Spammer inserting link into his post using white text colour so you can't see the link!

Case of beer from Andy's fridge goes 2...................Toddie

[growler2058]

So far so good

[AB]

Yeah theyre cheeky buggers Toddy, thanks for your help with the visitor messages but I got up at sparrows this morning and found out a way to mass remove them.

Majority should now be all gone.

I really didn't want to put this spam filter on here, I know it works a treat but I end up being inundated with members who cannot sign up and it does restrict some people. So far so good though.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Yeah theyre cheeky buggers Toddy, thanks for your help with the visitor messages but I got up at sparrows this morning and found out a way to mass remove them.

Majority should now be all gone.



After all that hard work and all those beers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *LMAO*

And ur welcome

[Woof]

I got about 40 of them and now you tell us that you can mass remove them................................thanks mate...lol

[AB]

After all that hard work and all those beers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *LMAO*

And ur welcome

Your a good man toddy!

I did some myself this week too and thought bugger that, gotta be a better way...lol

[NissanGQ4.2]

Your a good man toddy!

I did some myself this week too and thought bugger that, gotta be a better way...lol

I thought bugger that 2, hence why I asked was there a way you could mass prune......... I distinctly remember ready your reply saying NO there was know way of mass pruning them............must of had beer goggles on that night *L*

[AB]

I thought bugger that 2, hence why I asked was there a way you could mass prune......... I distinctly remember ready your reply saying NO there was know way of mass pruning them............must of had beer goggles on that night *L*

I had to go into MySQL which is a bit scary as you can do some serious damage in there but it was easy...all done in an hour.

Yeah if I ever say it can't be done just keep hassling me...lol

[NissanGQ4.2]

I had to go into MySQL which is a bit scary as you can do some serious damage in there but it was easy...all done in an hour.

Yeah if I ever say it can't be done just keep hassling me...lol


All good, at least its nearly done. Just done a few more so should only be a couple left in there which I'll clear out 2morrow night