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[Shackeng]

Have we been?

[Jimbob]

If you mean the half dozen spam posts...No just a spammer postnig a few bits of shite, get some most days
We delete and ban on sight.

[Lizzie Zoom]

If you mean the half dozen spam posts...No just a spammer postnig a few bits of shite, get some most days
We delete and ban on sight.

That is Great to hear Jimbob!

Perhaps the OOF is on the suckers list?

[STEMO]

If you mean the half dozen spam posts...No just a spammer postnig a few bits of shite, get some most days
We delete and ban on sight.

That is Great to hear Jimbob!

Perhaps the OOF is on the suckers list?

Only those members who follow the links. There was a period of time not long ago when these posters made MSE forums almost unusable.

[Doctor Gollum]

I usually report them when I spot them.

Unfortunately you can't report them until they have posted something...

[Jimbob]

A report (per batch) helps, we tend to see em fairly quickly but does help.

Plenty of suspicious users never do anything, but I know what you mean about spotting in advance.  tend to get the benefit of the doubt.

[Doctor Gollum]

Talking of which... The latest member is another Audi Driver from Dubai 

[Jimbob]

Talking of which... The latest member is another Audi Driver from Dubai 

Not a crime in itself, we are not that draconian.

[Doctor Gollum]

Talking of which... The latest member is another Audi Driver from Dubai 

Not a crime in itself, we are not that draconian.

You know what's coming though 

[Jimbob]

Talking of which... The latest member is another Audi Driver from Dubai 

Not a crime in itself, we are not that draconian.

You know what's coming though 

Possibly,

We can also see a little more detail than you.
If they were going to spam, it would likely be done by now.

We do not normally 'try and convict' people before they commit a crime.

[TheBoy]

If you mean the half dozen spam posts...No just a spammer postnig a few bits of shite, get some most days
We delete and ban on sight.

That is Great to hear Jimbob!

Perhaps the OOF is on the suckers list?

I know tongue in cheek, but as soon as you put anything on the Internet with a static IP, it becomes an immediate target, and will be probed in under an hour.  If any interesting* service is open, that will be targeted shortly after.  So, yeah, even poor OOF is a target, with unsolicited attempts to hack it every minute of every day.



*things that could be used to get an exploit, such as RDP on a Windows server or SSH on a Linux server (and a web server will happily tell you what the server's OS is), or if there is a known exploit that hasn't been patched, like a lot of database services, or NTP, or a million and one other things.

[STEMO]

If you mean the half dozen spam posts...No just a spammer postnig a few bits of shite, get some most days
We delete and ban on sight.

That is Great to hear Jimbob!

Perhaps the OOF is on the suckers list?

I know tongue in cheek, but as soon as you put anything on the Internet with a static IP, it becomes an immediate target, and will be probed in under an hour.  If any interesting* service is open, that will be targeted shortly after.  So, yeah, even poor OOF is a target, with unsolicited attempts to hack it every minute of every day.



*things that could be used to get an exploit, such as RDP on a Windows server or SSH on a Linux server (and a web server will happily tell you what the server's OS is), or if there is a known exploit that hasn't been patched, like a lot of database services, or NTP, or a million and one other things.

What would they do if they got in? Ransomware? 

[TheBoy]

Well, they could get a tidy small database of email addresses...

...or inject some malicious code into the php to try to exploit any vistor.

[Doctor Gollum]

Well, I see our Audi driving guest from Dubai has, er, left

[STEMO]

Well, I see our Audi driving guest from Dubai has, er, left

Yeah, he's planted something.....and run for it.