Spam Attacks

[BLACKWATCH]

Can they not just apply it to those with no registered copy of Trainz ?

 

[shaneturner12]

Not sure on whether it's possible or not as I haven't got any experience on the admin side of VBulletin (as I mainly use PHPBB3) but if it is possible then it's a good idea.

Shane

 

[clam1952]

How about turning off Korean Language support so the prat can't see what he is posting?

As in maybe removing this

<phrase name="docprops.charsetKR" date="1315605519" username="vBulletin Solutions" version="4.1.8 Beta 1">Korean</phrase>

It's in vbulletin-language.xml

 

[cascaderailroad]

It 22:50 (local time) so it must be Spam Time in S. Korea - or is it actually N. Korea where a certain weird little fellow with a funny haircut and who wears strange outfits must think of himself as a railroad tycoon. Duly reported.

 

[pware]

For the last week I've been getting more frequent freezes in surveyor and longer loading times in TS2010 - used to be only 10-30 seconds for the menu screen to go from zero to 10400 (whatever it is) "content updates available" then let me get on to the actual game, now it's more like 5 minutes each time. At least with a STEAM game you can set it to run offline, is there any way to disable that content update check when the DLS is running slow?

You need to apply more spam (the plain not the spicy variety) or move your post into the TS2010 forum.

 

[Zeldaboy14]

Well, there's only one way to phrase this spamming as...

There 2, there 4, there 6, there 8, always spamming, not so great.

 

[SharkNose]

sookyu59 has been at it for over an hour. I did report him/her/it

 

[Enzo1]

sookyu59 has been at it for over an hour. I did report him/her/it

And the assault continues. Let's see how long before it gets killed.

 

[oknotsen]

I thought I had nuked this sucked an hour ago.
Apparently I only slapped him in the face once.

Let's see if I can pull his nose.

 

[Enzo1]

I thought I had nuked this sucked an hour ago.
Apparently I only slapped him in the face once.

Let's see if I can pull his nose.

They must be getting smarter. Except they're still dumb though.

 

[oknotsen]

Slap 2

I gave him another hint.
Let's see if he takes this as a man or that he will react with an(other) unasked for new post.

If you (still) see some disruptive posts, please report. I think I got them all now, but since I am just as human as most of you...

 

[SharkNose]

Thanks, oknotsen. At least they could spam in English. It's just text noise to us!

 

[cascaderailroad]

It's not meant to make reading sense ... SPAM is supposed to seek out and destroy sites, causing sites and users PC's to be overloaded and shut down

 

[boc61]

Not always, sometimes it is just the digital equivalent of the junk mail we all get in our home mailboxes. An annoyance but relatively harmless.

 

[JCitron]

Maybe it's a good thing we can't read it because we'd be more prone to click on the links and download something we will regret we did.

John

 

[pware]

Maybe it's a good thing we can't read it because we'd be more prone to click on the links and download something we will regret we did.

That's the part that I find funny. None of the spam posts that I have opened (to enable reporting of course) have had a clickable link. Yes, a web address is always present but in bold text form only and, if I recall correctly, with spaces between the individual characters. That plus the non-ASCII text makes for very strange spam.

 

[oknotsen]

The spam is not aimed at us.
The spam is aimed at the crawlers of search websites like Google and Bing.

The crawlers can read the links.
The more websites they find with links to a set website, the higher that website is ranked in their indexes, so the higher on the list they show up if you search for something that is related to those websites. And some people are Korean and some are interested in casino's... and that is what makes them their money.

They are not (directly) interested in the users of this forum (or the other huge and spam unrelated business community I am team member on). It is all about ranking on search engines.

 

[JCitron]

That's the part that I find funny. None of the spam posts that I have opened (to enable reporting of course) have had a clickable link. Yes, a web address is always present but in bold text form only and, if I recall correctly, with spaces between the individual characters. That plus the non-ASCII text makes for very strange spam.

That is funny. I see the Asian fonts - it looks like Korean, definitely too complex for Japanese, and not as complex as Chinese. The link though is broken, that's right, which means someone put this together incorrectly so for the rest of us this is a good thing.

John

 

[pcas1986]

The spam is not aimed at us.
The spam is aimed at the crawlers of search websites like Google and Bing.

...

That was interesting. Thanks for the info.

 

[pware]

Some more spam trivia, from Wikipedia

• South Korea in 2011 was the 4th biggest source of spam attacks, behind India, Russia and Vietnam.
• Hormel Foods Corporation, the maker of SPAM luncheon meat, does not object to the Internet use of the term "spamming". However, they did ask that the capitalized word "Spam" be reserved to refer to their product and trademark.