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Originally Posted by TekWarren
Nope everything up to date.
We turned on image verification (where you have to repeeat the distorted characters displayed) as part of the registration process a while back.
Recently we noticed some registrations that had some spammy spammy posts which some of you may well have seen. We moved all these users to a banned group and blacklisted the email domains they came from and blocked several IP's. But they were just making spammy posts.
Reading some threads in the software support forum some of the devs said that lately in the ongoing spread of spam people were being paid by spam clearinghouses to register on forums that had the image verification on and then selling the usernames and passwords to these houses.
That could only result in these spam posts that occured recently.
HTML is disabled here for security reasons because of the potential for malicious code.
Even when you use the "contact" function to get in touch with another user you jusr get a message composing window same as posting a thread - no way to attach any kind of virus payload.
Though folks from time to time complained of having to use the gallery instead of just uploading attachments disabling attachments was decided on for the same reasons - security as much if not more for the users than for the site itself.
All the latest revisions and patches for security are actively installed here.
We value your membership here and take all precautions to protect folks from any sorts of potential issues from SPAM to embedded code.
All that being said . . longwindedly . . I'm continuing to check this out.