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Dedicated attack on server 13/10 04:30

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  • tru
    tru Posts: 9,138 Forumite
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    [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]When I write in Word and copy it over, I can read this properly. My last post is just full of exclamation marks [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif](typed straight into the reply box on here)[/FONT]
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  • ColinFishwick
    ColinFishwick Posts: 1,391 Forumite
    edited 13 October 2014 at 10:44AM
    For some strange reason many posts I view today are garbage

    Post 19 for example

    My h!!d !!h!! !!!m !!p!!!!!g *!!gh!* ! h!v! !!!d !h! !h!!!d ! wh!!! !!!!, !! w!! ! h!!d!-!p !yp! !h!!g. J!!! !!!!d !h! !h!!!d ! !h!!! !h! '!!mp!!!!!' !! !!!!!: h!!p://!!!!m!.m!!!y!!v!!g!xp!!!.!!m/...412&!mp;h!gh!!gh!=

    post 61

    !! !!y!!! !!!! !!!!!g !!!! !! !x!!!m!!!!! m!!!! !! !!m! p!!!!/!h!!!d !!!!!!/!!g!!!!!!!? !'m !!! !!!!!!g !!!!! !h! !p!mmy p!!!! - !'m !!!!!g !h!m !! !!!v!!!!!!!!! !h!! h!v! !!!! h!!! !!! !g!!.

    This applies to other threads also, whats happening. I cleaned cache of browser. No problem last night only today

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  • Wyre
    Wyre Posts: 463 Forumite
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    Seems the forum team are trying hard to sort this out but the unintended consequences is turning posts to gobbledeegook.

    Ooo thanks tru, cutting and pasting works!
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  • Same happened in opera browser too. Anyone else getting garbage?
  • Hi everyone,

    Not to worry, we're just tinkering with the settings to get this spam sorted. Should be fixed shortly.

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  • kianicky
    kianicky Posts: 687 Forumite
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    The board has been hacked. most likely they have changed the css or something in the admin settings of the board or the database.
    Vegetarian's Do Not!!!! eat fish :mad:


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  • kianicky wrote: »
    The board has been hacked. most likely they have changed the css or something in the admin settings of the board or the database.

    Nope, it's just us trying to get the spamming stopped. Nothing's been hacked :)

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  • kianicky
    kianicky Posts: 687 Forumite
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    Ok that explains it. Hope you can change it back!
    Vegetarian's Do Not!!!! eat fish :mad:


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  • HO87
    HO87 Posts: 4,296 Forumite
    The original supposedly offending posts appear to have been in this thread:

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5068412
    My very sincere apologies for those hoping to request off-board assistance but I am now so inundated with requests that in order to do justice to those "already in the system" I am no longer accepting PM's and am unlikely to do so for the foreseeable future (August 2016). :(

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  • molerat
    molerat Posts: 34,533 Forumite
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    And they have started again :mad:
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