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This board has been hacked. Do not click on any message, regardless of how legitimate the title is, if mewar or lelon touched it.

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Looks to be cleared this morning. I PM'd Ekaterina last night about it.

I PM'd as well.

Looks like another hack in progress.

Already reported!

I just reported it also.

The forum hasn't been 'hacked' in the true sense but these spurious posts demonstrate the need for validating new user registrations and not allowing posts from the same until this has been performed.

The current settings allow anyone to register an account and start posting totally irrelevant topics / stories with suspect links etc.  This has been happening for a number of years.

I suggested "moderators" to approve each new user and their post some time ago to Gaidar and he declined to implement this approach.

Steve, I clicked on a message for a valid ATI problem but for which mewar had provided a reply. Just clicking on the message got me to one of those spammed movie sites. That's why I used the term "hacked" and posted the warning. It was not longer working safely.

Interestingly, when I goodled the name of the poster of those messages, I found it associated with a site called thegymsportsbars.com. Perhaps just a bunch of stupid children thinking they'd discovered cheap and easy advertising.

The spammers are back and I PM'ed Ekaterina again.

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you for alerts! Our team is working on the fix, most probably it will be adding a captcha. I'll publish a separate story with details. 

Thank you,

Ekaterina, adding a captcha may stop any automatic / robot registrations, but it won't stop these individual users who want to push their hobbies, spam, malware etc.  There really needs to be some method of vetting postings by new users to check that they are writing about Acronis products etc, not promoting pirate videos, pushing links for PST recovery tools etc.

I have some suggestions and will start a new thread in the MVP section.

I agree with Steve. A Captcha will not eliminate individuals. I think moderation of new requests by a moderator, who could be one or more of the MVPs' makes more sense.