Lads Some of you may have noticed we have a spam bot targeting the forum. Essentially advertising viagra and other medical items. Please DO NOT follow any of the links on his threads as it is believed harmful malware is attached. Just avoid at all costs. I have requested the account banned - but untill this is acted on against please avoid. Cheers, bow.
This is only off Wiki but explains about the possible danger and the continuous spamming, the contact link on the account panel is for ICQ. According to security analyst Jeffrey Carr, use of ICQ may cause security problems because it was purchased by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies. ICQ has fallen out of fashion in US and Britain, but it remains popular in eastern Europe and Russia. Carr says the new ownership may be used by Russia's powerful secret service, the FSB (formerly the KGB) since Russian law, like the American law, requires ICQ to open its logs whenever they want".[SUP][7][/SUP] But so are other IMs too (see Skype security, YIM SPIM, AIM vulnerabilities etc.). [h=3][edit]Spam[/h]ICQ is often used for distribution of unwanted advertisement and spam.[SUP][8][/SUP] This is facilitated by ICQ's use of usernames consisting of multiple-digit numbers. [h=3][edit][/h]
You should see the City board. The Geordie lot have a thread up as well explaining the same thing as well. Seems like a fair few boards have had the same problem.
Unless a mod from each infected board volunteers to stay up all night deleting the spam threads there'll on be the sticky's left by tomorrow. What do you reckon Bow, are you putting your hand up.
Surely if it's advertising Viagra they should be targeting QPR's board! They have trouble staying up.
