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Old 16th November 2012, 08:19 PM
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its being looked into.
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Old 16th November 2012, 10:47 PM
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Dont think I like all these strange people. Whos going to clean up all the poo they leave behind.

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Old 16th November 2012, 10:57 PM
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nor me! Its escalating again

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Old 17th November 2012, 08:12 AM
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Just BOSHED 2 pages of junk.

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Old 17th November 2012, 09:38 AM
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Might seem like a stupid question but what the hell do spammers get out of this . There cant be money in it and it takes up shit loads of time.

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Old 17th November 2012, 10:54 AM
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This is bollocks. Cant someone just turn off the sign up function for a while or is it not that easy?

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Old 17th November 2012, 12:02 PM
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That will be a NO then.

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Old 17th November 2012, 08:53 PM
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Might seem like a stupid question but what the hell do spammers get out of this . There cant be money in it and it takes up shit loads of time.
It is money -- they're getting paid for "SEO", or promoting certain sites on Google, in other words. One way to do that is to get lots of links to the site with the right keywords in the link text from other reputable sites. Forums and blog comments are a popular target. A script that creates users and posts messages with links on a certain vBulletin version will work on a multitude of forums, making them a high-gain target. Forum software gets updated often plugging security holes that allow such automated spam. Looks like the version we're using here was released in 2006, I'm surprised it held so long, really.
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Old 17th November 2012, 11:49 PM
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In october we had 218 active members we now have 626. Is this 408 extras all the work of spammers

http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=8585

Just looked again as of today its 713. They are busy boys

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