Spam in shoutbox

jacci · 2007-04-04T13:13:01Z

I don't know if anybody else is experiencing this. I got my shoutbox working and was spam free for about a whole week. Then of course the bastards found me. So i turned it to members only can shout. When i am not logged in you can see the shouts, but there is no shout form or submit button, so i figured all was good since visitors now can't get to the shoutbox.Today when i looked i had viagra crap all over the place, about 15 entries of it. I double checked and it is members only. I have now deleted them all, but any idea how they might do this? I checked in the tables too to see if they had joined as members and then spammed and that was not the case, they had guest id's.Any idea how to prevent this happening?thanksjacci

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you are not the only one experiencing this. You are not alone. Mine was spammed with jewellery and a link, so I got mine set for guests but found 500 plus hacker accounts which have now all been deleted as its just to host my own stuff. I changed some settings as well. The efiction could do with an admin approve or deny user on registering. Just a thought.

I just delete the posts.

regards Kate

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