one for an internet wizzard

[slightlydodgy]

He brought a friend (aircon thread)

[geeves]

we will delete him on sight for now and see what happens. We have too many members in that country to use the big gun I used on the other guy

[slightlydodgy]

Ah time to put away the intercotinental missile and do some sniper training

[geeves]

yes The Indian guy resulted in a strike equivalent to half the residential ip addresses in Auckland being banned from this site.

[dasnoboarder]

Geeves, the man with the big red button

[geeves]

125.238.241.xxx Pop
just joking

[wbski007]

Gee Alan you have all the fun, getting to kill someone

[BrokenMu]

Can't get on the forum from my pc anymore. I just get a white screen. Would it hav anything to do with this situation?

[pig75]

Funny you should say that i just got a new laptop, windows 7 ultimate IE8 and it loads a blank screen for club Isuzu. All my other sites load fine

[geeves]

different problem to the spammer but Ive refered this one from captcol to francessco.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1031
only he can fix
If you log out you might not get back in

[dasnoboarder]

I get the white screen on my Windows 7 desktop. Using IE 32 and 64-bit versions, and firefox 32-bit.

[geeves]

It looks like the logon page isnt showing. Francesco will have to fix.
I wonder if you can copy the cookie from the working browser?

[muu92]

At least you won't have problem with spammers while the site is like this..

[geeves]

Thats a bit like saying you wont get caught drunk driving because someone stole your tyres

[BrokenMu]

Thanks geeves.

[oompalompa]

Thats a bit like saying you wont get caught drunk driving because someone stole your tyres

thanks mate, havnt laughed that hard for ages

[bazza2541]

They're spam bots.
From past experience the best way to beat them is a captcha system on registration. Although e-mail verification does catch all but the most advanced bots. ( A spam bot is a computer computer program designed to register a username, dump some spam and close down). I used to ignore 'em until one dropped a kiddyporn site at 7pm one wednesday, after that I could ignore 'em no more.

[geeves]

Looks like I have them fairly well shut down for now. I have been told that as well the bots some low paid workers in a certain large asian country are getting paid to register on sites like this manually and distribute spam. Its hard for a bot to make semi believable responses to other posts which is what these guys were doing.

[geeves]

a New one from the Philipines. Weve got members there so I cant block the lot. Just deleted for now