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GBO is under Attack....
« on: March 03, 2010, 12:19:57 PM »
The GBO server has been under attack since 1:23pm CSTand continues to be attacked at a rate of about 1 per minute. It is under control and there are no worries of them getting in as we now run Atomic Secured Linux as one of our security programs and it seems to be catching and black listing the offenders.  Until the attack is over there may be some longer than normal lag times.

The attacks are coming from all over the world with most resolving back to Central America and Russia. All Mods need to be on the look out for a increase in spammers cause they may shift the attack to the forums.

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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 12:25:40 PM »
Beginning last evening and all thru the day today spammers have been registering at an unreal rate. I have lost count of how many I've dumped in the last 24 hours and no doubt Tim has as well.

So far we've got most before they could begin posting but some do get thru to post.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 01:27:48 PM »
It seems like tha spammers are trying to sell stuff no one would be interested in anyway. Now if the spammers had any brains they'd be spamming outdoors and shooting stuff.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 01:45:04 PM »
Are they singling us out, or is it going on everywhere??? POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2010, 02:21:57 PM »
Quote from: powderman on March 03, 2010, 01:45:04 PM
Are they singling us out, or is it going on everywhere??? POWDERMAN.  :o :o

Don't know... Our hosting provider has not sent me anything about them being attack so I would say that we have pissed off a spammer and they set us up for a lot of D.o.S. attacks or some other such attacks.

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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2010, 02:32:22 PM »
 A couple of days ago I went to the Historical Trekking site . There was a hardcore Porn site posted in one of the Forums. Pretty sick stuff...
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2010, 03:31:04 PM »
Not just GBO.

Scoutdoorsnews.com is a forum I frequent and I got a private message from a spammer like this:


Your computer was noticed in email spam. It is quite possible that it is a part of botnet (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet). Strongly recommend you to scan your computer for malware. You can do it online at: xxxxxxscan.org/spammers/SHDS;Jim Boyd;hawgmaster;700 Man;foxxtrot
Please, follow this. Otherwise I have to send abuse mail to your ISP with all the ensuing consequences.
Truly yours, Dennis Adams.

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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2010, 06:01:00 PM »
I fixed that link so no one could accidentally click it. Yeah someone would for sure and there is no telling the consequences of doing it. Please don't post links that you are just about dead sure are bad for folks.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2010, 12:19:51 AM »
It's not just GBO getting hit by spammers, my Jeep club's website has been getting hammered, too.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2010, 12:39:27 AM »
I have a cure for those spammers, "Lock n Load Boys"!!!!!!
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2010, 03:48:54 AM »
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 Glad I saw this post I have been using the report this post here on GBO and writing Spam or Spammers
in the Subject box ,in the past when I saw one I sometimes would drop down the Who's On-line and try to
see if I could find a moderator ON but that is time consuming other times I would just PM Tim, GB, or Matt.
 I now would like to ask what is best for ALL to do ,The Report this Button ?

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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2010, 03:57:35 AM »
This is what I meant and to explain Bill before Matt and Vis ,versa
I don't want to be disrespectful  ;D covering all Base's
Hee haw
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2010, 04:21:22 AM »
Yes the best thing is to use the Report to Moderator button. That sends an e-mail to all admins and global moderators and the moderator of that forum. Most times someone on the list will be able to get to it fairly quickly.

Only global mods and the mod of that particular forum can delete the post and only three of us can ban a member or delete the account. For most spammers we just delete them but if it's porn they are banned and if they tend to come back again they get banned.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2010, 01:12:14 PM »
I didn't even think about that damn link. Sorry folks.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2010, 02:03:36 PM »
I've seen an increase of crap emails the past couple days that are getting past the filters at work.
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Re: GBO is under Attack....
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2010, 03:16:50 PM »
See if your hosting provider can set up something like GEOIP  and block users coming from those countries.

That is we don't have users from Central America and Russia.


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