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Re: Video Stream

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2014 8:28 pm
by matt
You are probably right about that. It's pretty devious technique. It is tough to stay on top of the spammer techniques!

Re: Video Stream

Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:50 am
by RightClickSaveAs
evilkinggumby wrote: if you as admins search all active accounts that have a signature file, and scan those with embedded links, you may be surprised how often this happens. :) back then, I would routinely do a scan every month and delete/flag the accounts for Ban hammer.

And that was also on a phpBB site.
Oh good idea! Very sneaky. I did a quick sort through and found these, they don't have active posts but do have spam links in their signatures. I'm not able to get rid of users or edit signatures, but if someone else could take care of these:
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=470
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=482
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=687

Re: Video Stream

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:55 pm
by matt
Good catch! I've banned them all. :)

Thanks for your help!