10-05-2022, 11:17 AM
Good morning my fellow BFTers.
I had a comment this morning, that I thought I would address to the whole group.
We are getting between 3-8 spammers each morning. The spam is usually related to " keto gummies" but sometimes have differnt titles.
Please do not open these and if you do - Never- click any of the hot links in the post. If you do A plague of biblical proportion will descent on your computer. Ok that was melodramatic. But you could at worst get a virus and at best be on the new call list for everything spammy.
I was asked why we don't purge them.
I do.
Every morning I am up at 4. I usually catch them and purge and delete them before you ever see them. But sometimes I miss them or they spam at differnt times and I don't catch them right away. Our Admin, also watches for them and purges many of the attempts.
They use a computer algorithm "bot" to generate a new account with a differnt IP address each time, so simply purging them will not make them go away.
Admin is aware but stopping a computer generate bot is a real challenge. I hope IT can solve it, but until then we will keep at the purge button in the morning so your feed is mostly clear of them when you want to do some fishy chat.
Cheers
CBP
I had a comment this morning, that I thought I would address to the whole group.
We are getting between 3-8 spammers each morning. The spam is usually related to " keto gummies" but sometimes have differnt titles.
Please do not open these and if you do - Never- click any of the hot links in the post. If you do A plague of biblical proportion will descent on your computer. Ok that was melodramatic. But you could at worst get a virus and at best be on the new call list for everything spammy.
I was asked why we don't purge them.
I do.
Every morning I am up at 4. I usually catch them and purge and delete them before you ever see them. But sometimes I miss them or they spam at differnt times and I don't catch them right away. Our Admin, also watches for them and purges many of the attempts.
They use a computer algorithm "bot" to generate a new account with a differnt IP address each time, so simply purging them will not make them go away.
Admin is aware but stopping a computer generate bot is a real challenge. I hope IT can solve it, but until then we will keep at the purge button in the morning so your feed is mostly clear of them when you want to do some fishy chat.
Cheers
CBP
Remember: keep the lid on the worms, share your jerky, and stop by to say hi to Cookie and the Cowboy-Pirate crew