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IrisO
Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 557 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 10:01 Post subject: |
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The off-topic section has more than one page of spam :s _________________ There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. |
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Anna Kull
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 5153 Location: Switzerland
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 11:58 Post subject: |
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Milan Forst is the user to be banned _________________ RG is the true reason to go on in my life! |
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Youandi
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14025 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 12:04 Post subject: |
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I've never seen a spammer seen "spamming" so much 0.o yikes |
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YoonA
Joined: 14 Aug 2011 Posts: 170 Location: Toronto, Canada.
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 16:07 Post subject: |
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theres like 3 pages O.o |
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Anna Kull
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 5153 Location: Switzerland
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 17:09 Post subject: |
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I don't think it's a person. I think that it's a machine doing that staff automatically One might wonder what people like about developing such rubish... _________________ RG is the true reason to go on in my life! |
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YoonA
Joined: 14 Aug 2011 Posts: 170 Location: Toronto, Canada.
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 17:10 Post subject: |
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Jewgenija
Joined: 28 Oct 2009 Posts: 1523 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 17:27 Post subject: |
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It has no end, over 3 pages ....... lol record spammer _________________ Official *Kanarazzi* xD
"When the world would like an big cute Cheburashka, then the world would be good!" |
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Youandi
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14025 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Tue, 18-Oct-2011 17:39 Post subject: |
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Anna Kull wrote: | I don't think it's a person. I think that it's a machine doing that staff automatically One might wonder what people like about developing such rubish... |
Probably yes, since the "posts" almost contain the same "info" |
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Hoops and Grand Fouettes
Joined: 10 May 2011 Posts: 1847 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed, 19-Oct-2011 4:25 Post subject: |
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Anna Kull wrote: | I don't think it's a person. I think that it's a machine doing that staff automatically One might wonder what people like about developing such rubish... |
But unlike a normal spammer, the location is different and they've filled out the interests. o.O _________________ My YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/MarchingBalletDancer
My Tumblr: http://czarinakanaeva.tumblr.com/ |
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IrisO
Joined: 18 Jun 2011 Posts: 557 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Wed, 19-Oct-2011 10:04 Post subject: |
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Aren't there any moderators around? There's like 7 pages of spam already :s _________________ There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. |
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AleksandraFan
Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 1910 Location: Canada
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just_me
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1120 Location: Bulgaria
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Posted: Wed, 19-Oct-2011 14:51 Post subject: |
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What the fu*k, seriously!!! Can't we do something about it? Isn't there any way to ban this...thing? |
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Anna Kull
Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 5153 Location: Switzerland
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Posted: Thu, 20-Oct-2011 11:02 Post subject: |
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The spam is now gone. I want to thank all moderators who contributed to deleting it!!!! I know how stupid it feels to do such a thing on a creative place like this. HUGE THANKS _________________ RG is the true reason to go on in my life! |
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yussupovafan
Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 586
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Posted: Thu, 20-Oct-2011 16:54 Post subject: |
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Thanks to mods for eliminating this spam.
What MilanFrost has done is truly "Massive Attack".
I wonder why the person who create this type of things doesn't spend their time on some more valuable ways. _________________ Filiou, Phazava, Nichol, Rodriguez - smaller federation, bigger performance!!! |
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Tom T RSG.net Moderator
Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 1179 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Thu, 20-Oct-2011 17:09 Post subject: |
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Just I quote here the answer I made a bit ago on Off Topic forum to Justin's recommendation to install CAPTCHA system. Yes, it was an unprecedented attack!
Quote: | Whew yeah, that Tues attack on rsg.net and then the cleanup on Wed was the biggest ever. It took 3-mods working together for 20-30min to cleanup the 'Off Topic' forum. Thanks so much Justin for your early morning text msg first thing, when I woke up here in California yesterday. We are getting this spammer was a very sophisticated bad boy. To explain, the early spams from 'MilanFrost' were like land mines just sitting there, waiting & listening and after a few members clicked on the original spam post...it then made what's called a "code injection" into the 'Off Topic' forum and began to propagate rapidly
Yes, CAPTCHA was one of the recommendations I made in a long email to Alex sent yesterday. I gather at moment Alex is on an important business trip here in USA and so very likely he just has no time to respond. Just will have to wait.
During the incident, I was in constant contact with Alan (Rsgmann)...his advice and especially his daughter Beika's expert analysis were invaluable on how to handle the situation as a mod.
Alex had given us earlier instructions on what to do. But this was an unprecedented situation and my early effort to dis-able 'MilanFrost' on Sunday was not enough. Like a sci-fi movie, the spam bot came back on us! I needed Alan big time yesterday and especially during the cleanup. Because Alan's family has the technical tools to safely lure, capture, analyze and handle a spam bot this dangerous. Won't go into detail, how they did it. But you saw how dangerous this spammer was on Tuesday (9-pages of spam , 500+ posts). Yes, the forum needs new tools. -T |
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