Ok has this forum been hacked?

[bunji]

"Since it seems to be a single spammer each time , and they appear to be SE Asian in origin - can the mods not delete all members from That part of the world? You must have isp details to each membership application , and asian names are a bit of a giveaway."
@muzza That will achieve absolutely nothing ,this is a auto Spam Bot ie someone paid to advertise/spread a message using a automatic "remote , hands off" computer program .All of these types of "attacks" will use VPN type functions to simply change their "locations" and IP address & they can set it to your address if they wanted to .
This type of IP manipulation/country of origin disguise is done by everyone from kids trying to hack/troll sites from home to international espionage ie China hiding its US hacking on Russian IP locators ,no hacker of any worth will make such a basic mistake, especially not State sponsored entities .

The easiest way to counter/ stop them is to set up word recognition that will auto block ie in this case what they are trying to advertise .The worst thing that happens is morons ignore the first rule of the internet which is do not feed the trolls ,as soon as people react/answer the Bot it ups its attempts to breach as it computes it as having found a site that it is successfully spreading the message it is paid for with each hit .

Through no fault of anyone my guess (by the SNAFU pic posting system) is we are on a very out dated system ,so this makes the site a easy target with these types of attacks .

While l am on it ,thanks to the @Admin team for the great job they do for our community it is not easy & largely thankless ,but IMO this is one of the best as far as "community feel ". :So THANK YOU thumbsup: