Spam email sent to some members

[De trux]

We are investigating a possible hack into this forum's phpbb mail system. Please do not open any emails or PM's from members or administrators for the next week until this is sorted.

Sample message:

Dear, membername

Spam sending from your computer was detected.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: No Link posted for safety
If you do not pass this test we will have to delete your account and forward a complaint to your ISP with attached log file (your IP address, etc.).
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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

[elander]

De Trux
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[jthq_rules]

F'in bastards...
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concorde_rules and you know it-Jthq rules the game world and you know it-email me if you know how!!!

[(EoD)TrahnLee]

It seems to be people or bots who are registering and then sending PM's out to the membership.. The latest is "MichaelTracy" who is sending out the spam. He has the same webmail address as the last guy.

[Bensta]

Yea seen that guy online all day, its getting bad yea, i had to deleate around 8 topics today with child porn in, was sick. Hope D can fix soon.
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[TG-Axis]

This is happening all over the place, just Google the website name and look how many forums it's showing up in--looks like hundreds.

Banning the user does not work, apparently, but IP banning had some success. McKaffee had a report from 2009 on their site, saying some of servebbs.org's affiliates, including best-malware-cleaner.com or something like that had been flagged for phishing and downloading trojans/backdoors.

Just how many trojans are we talking about? Well, McKaffee reported over 170.

So yeah, don't hit the link sent to you in the PM.

Prepare to repel boarders boys!
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I have Mr. Twinkles, here, ta draw me foes in fer a closer look...then BAM th' ol' horn in th' eye! Hyar harg!... anudder one-eyed pirate!

[Nx24]

for spam bots it's usefull to use new captcha

[TheLightKeeper]

This is why I mostly hate PHPBB, SMF > PHPBB

[De trux]

We've disabled PM's for the time being until this can be resolved by an upgrade to our captcha.

thanks,
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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

[Chacal]

I admin several boards we were hit badly in the last weeks. The only way I found to get rid of this was on VBulletin, by adding a mod that restricts sending PMs to only users who have at least x posts.
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Chacal
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[USAF 777]

Hi,
If this is still happening, you might wanna try implementing something like what we've got over at the CT forums:



I used to have it just list the math problem with numbers and symbols, but then bots started registering again....but I think it's been at least a year or two with almost no spam registrations since I changed it to full text.

At any rate, the standard phpBB2 CAPTCHA has been ineffective for eons.
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[Snuggles]

Sorry for that question here but, it looks like this is the only place where some members are active, so:

When I start Battlefield Pirates 2 and switch to multiplayer, i can see a few servers, but all are empty. Is there no one who still plays that mod? Maybe i did something wrong...
I really like that mod, but its boring against bots. Help :(
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Skype: festus314

[Bensta]

Normally a few on at the weekend, but yea not many play, which is a shame, but hopefully when new patch is out (very soon), few more will start playing.
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[Snuggles]

Wohoo!! Someone answered! Thank you very much. How about to play a round?
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Skype: festus314