Spam in photo comments

footer · December 01, 2007, 11:45:17 AM

I was looking through my photo album and noticed a bunch of comments that don't make sense, and they are all posted by users with the name starting with Guest_

Do you guys know whats up?

Jeff · December 01, 2007, 11:53:45 AM

Cripes. teaches me to go away. There are thousands of them. Keep your kids out of the gallery until I can get them banned and the proper blocks in place.

Jeff · December 01, 2007, 11:56:24 AM

THanks for the heads up footer. Not exactly what I wanted to walk into getting home but its typical. :D Thanks again.

beenthere · December 01, 2007, 11:56:55 AM

Sure looks like you are getting on some spam link, and just your skiing pics too.

Jeff is on it, I see. He needs a break from that tree stand.... ;D
Hope he can type with the split-up finger.

Jeff · December 01, 2007, 12:14:39 PM

I'm home now. Before the rebuild of the forum one of the safe guards I had was to never allow guest comments on the gallery. It was over looked in restoration. :-\

There were over 265,000 spam comments in the gallery. They must use some sort of bot to do it. They are gone now, but the major problem with that is, that all comments had to be taken out. >:( >:( >:(

I think they should change deer season to spammer season.

footer · December 01, 2007, 12:20:43 PM

Thanks for all your work Jeff.

Are all comments gone for everyones pictures?

Jeff · December 01, 2007, 12:47:10 PM

The only way I could do it was delete them all. There was not way I was going to sort through that many. I may be able to restore the old comments via the database backup, but I have to find out when this crap started to get on the other end of it.

ronwood · December 01, 2007, 07:11:41 PM

Jeff,

I think we all need to lobby congress to make law outlawing spam. I am getting sick and tired of all the spam that I get.

Ron

Jeff · December 01, 2007, 07:19:29 PM

It is against the law already

Dan_Shade · December 01, 2007, 07:29:19 PM

I think spamming and hacking should be capital offenses. they cost society way more than their life is worth.

sawguy21 · December 03, 2007, 09:42:20 AM

I opened my e-mail this morning to see five messages offering a rather explicit service. The subject lines and text were identical, the sender was different. One key word was mis spelled, presumably to get past the filter. It has been going on for several weeks.
I went to Tools>Mail Rules and entered the word so that any messages containing it would detour to the deleted file but what a PITA. There should be a check box
beside 'send electronic warhead to nuke sender's computer'.
End of rant. There, now I feel better. Rats, spoke too soon. Coffee can is empty. Grrr.