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HELP: Unauthorised members and spam threads

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matilda79:
Hi,

I am the administrator of a SMF, hosted through host-ed.com.

Recently, and extremely bad today, I have been inundated with unauthorised members and they have started making unauthorised posts,which are just a load of nonsense words.

How can I stop this fromhappening,and is any data at risk / member's personal data?

Many thanks,

Mat

matilda79:
Please find attached a print screen of the type of member and message.They are coming in by the minute it seems :-(((

emanuele:
Hello matilda,

this is "simple" spam.
I assume you allow people to register at your forum, so spambots register accounts and post things...

Of course you should delete all these posts.
You can delete and/or ban the members that posted this non-sense too.

Here you can find some suggestions on how mitigate spam:
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do
I hope this document could help you. :)

ETA: just out of curiosity, apparently you started your forum pretty recently, why did you chose to use SMF 1.1.16 instead of 2.0?

matilda79:
Thank you do much!

I've reset the permission to approval required and a verification code.

Fingers crossed.

I HAD to install the earlier version because I could not upload the latest version and get it to work. I posted on here, had 700+ people read my post but no one offered any help.

I appreciate yours though!

If there is a simple way for me to upgrade then I'd be really happy to have some assistance!

M

K@:
Here's how to upgrade:

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Upgrading

Pay particular attention to the "Backup" part and my sig, woncha? ;)

And don't expect me to upgrade my forum to v2, coz it ain't gonna happen! :)

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