You don't need to download anything to get infected. I clicked on one of the results from a Google search at work and just opening the site did it. It took one of our tech's all day to remove it. It's a crapshoot out there
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| Author: | 1/4 Pole [ Wed May 20, 2009 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Spammers |
We have a bunch and I mean to send every single one to the cornfield. If you have joined and have not yet posted you might want to do so before I pull the trigger. If I know you, you are safe. |
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| Author: | 1/4 Pole [ Wed May 20, 2009 11:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spammers |
I had to go back to manually activating accounts because of the spammers. Horselover, ThunderG, and Andy are back in the saddle this evening. I got caught up watching the extended version of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with 1/8 Pole. Tuco (Eli Wallach) is worth watching over and over. |
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| Author: | 1/4 Pole [ Thu May 21, 2009 7:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spammers |
Before I went back to having an admin activate a new signup we took about two dozen spammers as new members (out of our first 50 signups, almost 50%). Beginning around dawn I went through every member's profile that I did not know and bounced everybody who landed here with a non-North American IP address and those with random letters and digits for an IP or e-mail address that was 'filtered' to mask their nation of origin. The easiest way to get sent to the cornfield is to join with a non-English sounding user name, a 'gmail.com' e-mail address, and from a network known to spam. There's a bunch from Reston, Virginia and Seattle that get flagged post haste but most come from Russia, the British Virgin Islands, Latvia, and even Belgium. If you have signed on and have not posted and I do not know you, you are not going to be here beyond 30 days. I have no problems with lurkers that want to stay in touch with New York racing without posting but if I do not know you I begin to to think you are a spam 'sleeper' and cannot allow you to remain a member. As of 6:15 a.m. this morning (Thursday, 5/21) I am up to date with activating accounts. New signups can e-mail me at quarterpole@budweiser.com if they're having a problem getting on. Nobody gets on here without being screened ever again. If you get by me as a spammer with a horsey user name and a yahoo e-mail I'll nail you eventually. Nobody with a job or a life or any self respect should ever try to run a chat board. Trust me on that one. |
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| Author: | 1/4 Pole [ Thu May 21, 2009 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spammers |
After the second race today I sent 4 spammers to the cornfield and activated my friend Vulture's membership here. Nobody should have to do stuff like this. |
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| Author: | Publius [ Fri May 22, 2009 5:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spammers |
My laptop was infected with a nasty virus a month ago. I'm glad that I had my files on a backup harddrive. I eneded up reformatting the drive, installing XP Pro and drivers, and the installed the rest of the apps I use. I have no idea how my laptop was infected. I don't look at porn site and I don't download freeware and music. It was a pain in the butt getting everything back to normal but so far so good. |
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| Author: | arrow [ Fri May 22, 2009 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spammers |
You don't need to download anything to get infected. I clicked on one of the results from a Google search at work and just opening the site did it. It took one of our tech's all day to remove it. It's a crapshoot out there
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