Ahhh - got it... It's not good out there right now... On one of my more active vBulletin forums, below is a screen shot of my SPAM hack log - which is rejecting SPAM registrations at a rate of almost one per minute - with 287 during a 3 hour time period beginning at 1AM last evening .. With all of the rest of the PHP code I installed in the past few days to nuke this - it's *almost* manageable..??

:eek:

Best to you!

John D.

I have had no problem getting on Stills or main gunboards over the past few days

I'm still confused...I had no problem getting into the main Gunboards site either... :confused:

http://forums.gunboards.com/

There's a couple of recent threads in the System help Forum -

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthre...tting-in-forum

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthre...19-New-servers

Looks like they changed servers and your browser cache and history needs to be deleted before your browser will recognize the new server...

Thank you, I tried all that.

I am guessing they changed the DNS and it has not propagated to our servers here in KSA.

This is what I see...

I had forgotten that it can take a few days for some servers to update the DNS... :(

Here's a link to Information Week article on the resurgent pharmaceutical spambot, Rustock, which sounds like what has hit us...

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=229000733

Please keep up the fine work! Your work is reminded daily.

Thank you, my friend. It appears that the hacks I put in are doing great..! Also - these are automated SPAM BOTS given the reCAPTCHA hacks of the Google security, which have nothing at all to do with postino's post. It's a whole 'nuther "ball of wax".

As for Ed?

Your screen view is pulled from your PROXY CACHE (not on your computer), and has nothing at all to do with a DNS change or your local cache or... - but I suspect you'll already know that already.

Best to you guys,

John D.

John, I have cleared cookies, cleared my cache and still getting this, whether with mozilla or with explorer....

Hi Ed,

Your proxy server is a router kind of thingy - up-line from your computer... Many cache pages for faster delivery of pages to their connect clients. If a "static" version is stuck (which is sounds like), it will expire and purge whenever it's programmed to - but can be a few hours, to a few days - and some have TTLs up to a week... ;) Make sense?

Best to ya'!!

JD

GREAT JOB John D... thanks for being so proactive... and thanks to all the members who are reporting spam attempts and user violations. We can't keep a clean house without your help!