possible hacking

[roonie42]

Forum URL: ilytb.proboards39.com

hey - I have had two odd posting to my board in the last week. They were an odd mix of nonsensical characters and what looks like machine code (as if you opened an image file in Word or something.) I deleted them, fearing possible nefarious intentions, but I have the ISP number for the last one. (61.144.128.238) My site is relatively open - it's for my extended family and some are far from techincally savvy, so I tried to make it as easy as possible for them to use. (hence, no membership restrictions) Any help or suggestions about these mystery posting would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

A.

[MBME]

theres been a couple of spammers going around using that same sort of thing ive had that to but after i banned the persons ISP(internet service provider) they havent come back

[Maniac :þ]

roonie42 said:

Forum URL: ilytb.proboards39.com

hey - I have had two odd posting to my board in the last week. They were an odd mix of nonsensical characters and what looks like machine code (as if you opened an image file in Word or something.) I deleted them, fearing possible nefarious intentions, but I have the ISP number for the last one. (61.144.128.238) My site is relatively open - it's for my extended family and some are far from techincally savvy, so I tried to make it as easy as possible for them to use. (hence, no membership restrictions) Any help or suggestions about these mystery posting would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

A.

Did you ban the IP yet so they cannot come back?

Admin Panel --> Middle column, click "Ban Member" --> Put in that IP number, in the one drop-down bar, choose IP address, and then choose the amount of time they will be banned for. Press the "update ban list" button then.

Captain Maniac

[carnageX]

I think they're just bots. I had one on my board a while back. Just delete the post, and ban the IP. That's about the best you can do :-\.

[Benniantor]

I'm just gonna say that I didn't do it. Never heard of your forum

EDIT: I joined your forum by the way. I like your skin colors to

[roonie42]

Thanks! I will ban them immediately! ( I wanted to make sure I didn't inadvertantly ban one of my "country cousins" who was accidently doin' something crazy!)

A.

[Maniac :þ]

benniantor said:

I'm just gonna say that I didn't do it. Never heard of your forum

EDIT: I joined your forum by the way. I like your skin colors to

You didn't need to tell us that. I doubt any of us here did it...Your post was kinda...spam

CM

[jetpilot1000]

I've had that problem, too on my board. It had some links in it, but the writing was weird.