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My bbpress forum SPAMMED and HACKED to the extreme!!!


  • pbul2004
    Member

    @pbul2004

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I have just looked at my forum on my site and it has been spammed to hell, LOADS!!!

    myweddingreviews.co.uk/forum

    I have removed it from the main site. How has this happened and why?

    And how do i prevent this for the future as this would 100% turn people away from the site, if it has not done already.

    Hope you guys can advise! I might just remove the forum all together unless i know this can be prevented!

    Cheers

    Paul

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  • Ben L.
    Member

    @nightgunner5

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Did you have Akismet activated? If not, you should have. Unfortunately, there are a lot of less-than-honest people on the internet that would like nothing more than to use your forum as an advertisement for their less-than-honest websites.


    Ben L.
    Member

    @nightgunner5

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Did you have Akismet activated? If not, you should have. Unfortunately, there are a lot of less-than-honest people on the internet that would like nothing more than to use your forum as an advertisement for their less-than-honest websites.


    _ck_
    Participant

    @_ck_

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hacked means they injected javascript and such that was never meant to be posted by anyone.

    Spammed is just malicious posts. If you are simply spammed, install askismet and a captcha plugin or my Human Test plugin.

    Also, if you are running bbPress 1.0.2 make sure you upgrade to 1.0.3


    _ck_
    Participant

    @_ck_

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hacked means they injected javascript and such that was never meant to be posted by anyone.

    Spammed is just malicious posts. If you are simply spammed, install askismet and a captcha plugin or my Human Test plugin.

    Also, if you are running bbPress 1.0.2 make sure you upgrade to 1.0.3

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