https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1963&p=28999#p28999
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Tormie
Friday, 24 February 2006, 02:26 AM


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No problem melamkish, it was good that I was still lurking around.
We just faced a spammer attack, I deleted the post and changed the permissions of the "whip the admin" forum. That forum was supposed to be also a help for people who are unable to register so it was opened to guest writing and that guy posted his spam, his kind of spam was done in order to increase the position of his disgusting site in search engines position posting here the link of his site, masked under the bbcode (you probably didn't noticed it but luckily you were fast to see the post and I dreamed about you  :oops: lol). When a search engine bot/crawler found a link, wherever it was, it follows it and the more links it found of a site the higer the rank become so this is the reason why those people try to spread the link to their site everywhere.
Actually I immediatly changed the permissions of the whip the admin forum, now it's read only to guest like the rest of the site, the only support for problems will be the email address of the forum, posetteforever@spamcop.net . This is a special address on spamcop.net. I pay 30$ a year for it because they collect automatically the incoming spam, send me a report about them and have an accurate system to reveal from where the email comes really and then it give me the option to send the report automatically to the abuse service from where the email started. 
Actually I installed on the site a powerful IP logger and if the spammer want to write more now he has to register and he will be caught by his ip, even if he try to mask it behind a proxy server or an anonimyzer. I banned the IPs of all known anonymizers and we have a system that stops naughty people who tries to use anonymous proxy, so the spammer will simply get caught.

Now, I don't know if this kind of attacks will continue but we'll have to keep an eye open on the site and the log, some days ago I banned the ip from an user who was masking his browser under a strange "ADA" browser, probably a hacker trying to do something.

In the meantime I'll backup the database, just in case.

Good night friends