You may have noticed a few spammers lately.
These links (especially MMO related ones) tend to contain sites riddled with viruses and keyloggers hiding in cookies, among other things, and tend to look innocent enough, until all of your information is stolen.
Do -not- under any circumstances click on any links that spammers post on the forums, simply notify a staff member that they are there and we will clean up the mess right quick.
It's a sad day when we need to warn about gold sellers and spammers -outside- their MMO.
For Reference, I am usually always on MSN or AIM, and more active in IRC than usual, so you can catch me on any of the 3, my information is located in my profile, and I'm sure the other SMods wouldn't mind you telling them of a nasty spammer being a dick.
This has been a public service announcement, courtesy of the Chaos Project staff, in order to prevent skiddies from ruling the world(wide web) and generally protecting you from the terrors of the internet. Please continue with your interwebbing as usual, have a nice day.
I'll see if I can make a better anti-spam protection during the registration process to help preventing those bots from registering at all. This must be the third bot already in the last few months. :/
Wait... what exactly happened?
gold seller spamming wow gold sales all over the forum.
@blizz, I finally found a good anti-bot mod that works well (actually keeps away the bots). You might want to try installing it to the fourms.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1078
Quote from: legacyblade on January 15, 2010, 04:18:14 pm
@blizz, I finally found a good anti-bot mod that works well (actually keeps away the bots). You might want to try installing it to the fourms.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1078
Now legacyblade, we have to make sure that these things don't permanently drive out real humans too! :V:
It doesn't have any difficult puzzles. It just randomly selects a puzzle type(all very easy), then asks a puzzle question. (rather than just always being addition, which makes it easy for the bots)