Posts with lots of !!! instead of words?

lofielectronic

Looking around the forum I'm seeing some posts are completely made up of !!! and a few letters. Some aren't and some are. Have tried different browsers and still seeing it.

Going to try a virus checker now to see if its my machine or not. Worrying.

mjm3346

It's not you

kianicky

Looks like the message board has been badly hacked now. Most likely by the person/people that have done the spamming.

aneres

Same here.

pinkteapot

They've got to your signature, kianicky

pinkteapot

With some posts, the thread title is fked but the content is still OK. Others, it's title and content and in some cases it's certain replies to threads that are OK.

Former_MSE_Megan

Hi everyone,

The board hasn't been hacked, we're just tinkering with the settings to get this spam sorted. Should be fixed shortly.

Mallotum_X

Seen lots of signatures changed, old/new posts and post titles changed.

If you use the same email/password on other sites - especially anything with bank/card details in then its time to change them just in case.

cally6008

So glad it's not just me

suki1964

Thank heavens it's not just me. Thought someone had sent me an abusive pm lololol

fire**fly

MSE_Megan wrote: »

Hi everyone,

The board hasn't been hacked, we're just tinkering with the settings to get this spam sorted. Should be fixed shortly.

thank you