01-14-2007, 03:32 PM
Quote:It started sometime around mid-December, when a group of fairly sophisticated spammers began probing our forum system. We have always provided limited areas where unregistered guests could post questions and comments, and this was apparently an invitation for these spammers to post over 50,000 new forum messages pointing to every type of internet scam. Gambling, pills, lose weight, gain length, you name it - it was all there! Not only had they posted tons of garbage into the Javalobby forums, but they had also managed a cool trick of using attachments to automatically redirect visitors to various porn sites. It was a veritable buffet of everything you don't want on your legitimate website...
That was not the end of it, however. A site like Javalobby is constantly being spidered by the major search engines, so they were quick to pick up all of these new trash messages...
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