Spambot sending links to malware site?

[Mediocre Rando]

I haven't looked at the linked site (because I'm at work), but I'm assuming this is just BS sent by some spambot on the forum.

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[Jaedpact]

wow spambot for the fail...

[Neg1]

Crap not again. I will look in to it. This site has been getting hit hard by spam bots. I put some new measures in place but I guess that's not enough.

[Psydude]

Sorry guys, I never posted that much and moved from the dallas area anyway.

I hope everything goes well.  I'm removing my account from this site so I don't get any more malware emails.

Hope you get this fixed before you have to shut the site down!
-Psy

[Neg1]

Sorry to hear that another spam bot got on this site, I have locked it down now so I will have to approve all new members to the site. I also went and removed most of the accounts on the site with zero posts since some of them could have been bots and most have not been used since 2008.

If you are actually getting a email from the site with malware please let me know, I have not gotten one and it seems most people have not. I think they are PM's that are getting sent out not emails and you would still have to come to this site to read it and click the link. But if it was a real email from the site let me know since that means its more then just dumb ass spam bots getting on the site.

Just so everyone is safe please run a Virus/Malware program. I recommend the free Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

[Neg1]

Changed up the registration system and added a new anti spam system. If you get anymore PM's from this site with spam let me know who sent it.

What I might do is upgrade the site to SMF 2.0 since that has all the new anti spam stuff built into it. The only thing that sucks is I would have to find us a new theme since this one has not been ported over to 2.0 yet.

[Neg1]

Since I changed the registration system we have not had any more bots on the site. If anyone still gets a spam message please use the report function or just post here with the info.