As many of you already know, the site was victim to a nasty spam attack very early this morning. I have gone through the entire forum and deleted any reference to it. This also included anyone reporting it on the forum as well. All PMs were also deleted from the attacker. Unfortunately, notification emails included the spam and were emailed out automatically. This has been changed. See below.
To safe guard against this happening again, the following steps were taken.
1. The forum was just upgraded to the lastest version. This new version includeds a verification of new registrations on the site by an image of various letters. They must be typed in manually. This will prevent automated spam bots from spamming the board.
2. The maximum number of recipients sent out in a PM is limited to 5. This will avoid a broadcast spam.
3. You must have a post count of 30 in order to use the PM system. Sorry, but this is a necessary measure to deter future spam. The only way around this is to post over 30 messages or become a Contributing Member.
4. The "Do not reveal contact details of members to guests" option has been turned on for added privacy.
5. The "Don't allow post text in notifications" has been turned on. You will no longer be able see the reply to a PM in an email notification. This is important because now you have to logon to the site to read a PM (if this was on before, I could've deleted the spam before most of you saw it in your PM system).
6. Time required between posts from the same IP was changed from 5 to 15 seconds.
The only feature on the site that didn't transfer to the new upgrade was the Member Map. The current author of that mod hasn't released a version for this updated forum. I have saved the user data in future hopes of it being released. It's a small trade off at the moment to protect the site against spam.
Thanks.
if im not mistaken..... Mr. Bones fixed it so that if someone posted something vulgar that we would not get it in email as well. i dont think it is anything you can fix.
