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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:10 pm
by wardrich
RetroDosGames wrote:
Why is that post even here?

It was in response to a comment earlier in this thread.
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:27 am
by Rwolf
Another spammer, registered as ElGeyem (I think I saw that one before)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13180
Selling stuff so horrible, all the treehuggers cried out in rage...or something.
(I guess it was just a generic exasperation with spammers.)
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:14 am
by CPT Worm
RetroDosGames wrote:
Why is that post even here?

I'm like "Dirty" Harry Callahan, and spam posts are punks.
And I dealt with them.
I thought that was implied....
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:19 am
by CPT Worm
Rwolf wrote:Another spammer, registered as ElGeyem (I think I saw that one before)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13180
Selling stuff so horrible, all the treehuggers cried out in rage...or something.
(I guess it was just a generic exasperation with spammers.)
https://youtu.be/Z9PBtnnPmLQ?t=47s
God, Cheezits and Rice, is number one!hehe
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:39 am
by tienkhoanguyen
Cheezits and Rice!hehe
O-well, I think you just ruined my mother's sleep hehe
She was sleeping peacefully then the ice shatterred sound came on
O-well, probably made her happy.
She is used to me being a boring person.
She now probably thinks I watch porno hehe
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:16 am
by Wally
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:51 am
by Rwolf
Another copy-paste bot, calling itself 'Draco02'.
It's signature has been used before: 'DaRe DaViL', not sure if the name was the same.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13206
copy from dogbreath's last post in this thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... e+methinks
paste in this necro:ed thread:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=241
Status: Spam post deleted.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:47 am
by MrFlibble
BTW
Rwolf, you can link to individual posts in threads. There's a small icon in the header that looks like a white page (orange if the message is tagged as unread), and the text "Posted: <date>" is right next to it. This icon is actually the link to the post. You can right-click it and copy the link, then paste it here.
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:50 pm
by Rwolf
Aha, thanks - always something new to learn!
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:19 am
by RetroDosGames
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:34 pm
by MrFlibble
This guy is advertising some MMORPG (I think). The admins should decide if this should be removed or not (game-related links are tolerated to an extent).
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:45 pm
by RetroDosGames
MrFlibble wrote:
This guy is advertising some MMORPG (I think). The admins should decide if this should be removed or not (game-related links are tolerated to an extent).
It's a error 404

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:55 pm
by Rwolf
It seems they have another server now, I added a post about that to the thread.
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:33 am
by MrFlibble
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:15 pm
by CPT Worm
Took care of it. ...WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:48 am
by Rwolf
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:37 am
by Rwolf
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:44 am
by Rwolf
Two similarly named spam-bots registered to post the same spam message in two threads.
'pasban66'
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13212
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 865#124865
'pasban729'
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13213
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 866#124866
Status: Spam posts deleted.
Both are using a string 'FARASAT' as a sig.
I wonder if those signatures are something relevant to tracking them?
Both Pasban & Farasat seems to be names/words common on Pakistani websites.
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:11 pm
by Rwolf
Another spam bot, registered as 'jesba', considerately posting in the off-topic forum.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/profile.p ... le&u=13211
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic ... 870#124870
Status: Spam post deleted.
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:04 pm
by MrFlibble
Rwolf wrote:I wonder if those signatures are something relevant to tracking them?
Both Pasban & Farasat seems to be names/words common on Pakistani websites.
I think that whatever bots leave in as their signature are just placeholders.
Their strategy (judging by the few ones which got under the radar before) is to post some random stuff, and after a while edit their profile and posts, adding links to their profile page and signature.
The trick is that at least some forum engines do not retroactively add a signature to old posts if a user started without anything in their signature. Signature content only gets updated in those posts which already have it. So it makes sense to put something into the signature and then replace it with links after a while.