Upgrade your security please!

[Duvaren]

Greetings!

I recently had a spam attempt made on my own forum and the spammer used an army.com email box in his attempted registration.

I got curious so i decided to visit army.com and found spam everywhere in the forums.

My suggestions:

Update to the latest version of VBulletin if that has not already been done.

Activate the CAPTCHA feature for forum registration and for email logons.

Kill spam threads as you find them. (Like the "South Africas Anti-rape Condom" thread, for instance.) If these threads are left intact it just helps the spammer with their web crawler hit counts.

Do these and your spam will go down and your users and Internet neighbors will be happier. :D

[Grimm]

Greetings!

I recently had a spam attempt made on my own forum and the spammer used an army.com email box in his attempted registration.

I got curious so i decided to visit army.com and found spam everywhere in the forums.

My suggestions:

Update to the latest version of VBulletin if that has not already been done.

Activate the CAPTCHA feature for forum registration and for email logons.

Kill spam threads as you find them. (Like the "South Africas Anti-rape Condom" thread, for instance.) If these threads are left intact it just helps the spammer with their web crawler hit counts.

Do these and your spam will go down and your users and Internet neighbors will be happier.

:mad: Just to clear some things up for you and since you brought this up in a public forum. Army.com email addresses are free like hotmail and gmail and yahoo. you could get one yourself. It is also only a forwarding address.... you do understand what that means I hope. If you actually browsed through our forums like you suggested then where is all of this spam you are talking about? The thread you listed is a legitimate thread, but you could have found that out for yourself if you had bothered to read it.

We are already using the updated version of VBulletin and we don't bother with the captcha because all of the spam we get is from individuals not bots. (just like the spam you received on your site)

We have a community of over 50000 people from around the world here at army.com and they report spam to me on a regular basis. I also check the profiles of every one who signs up to be a member on this forum, including yours. Just because you have your own website don't presume to tell others how to run theirs. I manage a site with a large number of members you have 4.

We do not tolerate spam on our site and our members know that and report it to me if I don't catch it first. If you have a legitimate complaint about a thread by all means click on the report a post button. but until you have worked with a large website family for a while don't presume to tell me how to watch over mine.

That is like a person without children trying to teach parenting, they will never understand it until they are actually doing it for themselves.

Like I said at the beginning you should have emailed me with the complaint not posted it in a public forum. I would have been more diplomatic in a private email but when you attack the integrity of my site in public I must respond in kind.:mad:

[Exo1]

:mad: Just to clear some things up for you and since you brought this up in a public forum. Army.com email addresses are free like hotmail and gmail and yahoo. you could get one yourself. It is also only a forwarding address.... you do understand what that means I hope. If you actually browsed through our forums like you suggested then where is all of this spam you are talking about? The thread you listed is a legitimate thread, but you could have found that out for yourself if you had bothered to read it.

We are already using the updated version of VBulletin and we don't bother with the captcha because all of the spam we get is from individuals not bots. (just like the spam you received on your site)

We have a community of over 50000 people from around the world here at army.com and they report spam to me on a regular basis. I also check the profiles of every one who signs up to be a member on this forum, including yours. Just because you have your own website don't presume to tell others how to run theirs. I manage a site with a large number of members you have 4.

We do not tolerate spam on our site and our members know that and report it to me if I don't catch it first. If you have a legitimate complaint about a thread by all means click on the report a post button. but until you have worked with a large website family for a while don't presume to tell me how to watch over mine.

That is like a person without children trying to teach parenting, they will never understand it until they are actually doing it for themselves.

Like I said at the beginning you should have emailed me with the complaint not posted it in a public forum. I would have been more diplomatic in a private email but when you attack the integrity of my site in public I must respond in kind.:mad:


Here here.. you tell em Grimm!!..... The thread starter was highly unprofessional in posting that thread...

[Zidane]

Duvaren, you just got served. And if you actually looked in some of the threads instead of just assuming things based on the title, you would find that almost none of it is spam. In my time on this forum I have only witnessed one or two actual spambots/spammers. Grimm and the others do a hell of a good job keeping things like that under control, and I don't think it was your duty to point out some suspected flaws in this website. It was a very unprofessional and very discourteous thing to do.