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Post by Renegade on May 15, 2005 13:50:59 GMT
We have taken the usual Support email inbox for SayBox offline due to very high quantities of spam email. This means that any emails sent to support@saybox.co.uk will be automatically discarded and will not be read or replied to. If you require help with your SayBox, please post in this board here on our forum instead. |
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Post by Tau Online on May 19, 2005 20:15:56 GMT
Spam sucks.. Although why don't you just 'hide' the link from spammers? By that I mean change the code on the support page? Instead of the code below: <a href="mailto:support@saybox.co.uk">support@saybox.co.uk</a>Add the following code to the <head> section of the page: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function WriteStart() {document.write('<a h'+'ref="'+'ma'+ 'ilto'+':');}
function WriteEnd() {document.write('</'+'a'+'>');}
</script>and then add the following where the e-mail address should go: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
WriteStart();
var username = "support";
var domain = "saybox.co.uk";
document.write(username);
document.write('@');
document.write(domain);
document.write('">');
document.write(username);
document.write('@');
document.write(domain);
WriteEnd();
// --></script>
<noscript>
support(at)saybox.co.uk
</noscript>
In the above code, if javascript is enabled, a normal mailto: link is shown, if it isn't "support(AT)saybox.co.uk" is shown. Spam bots can't pick-up an e-mail address this way  EDIT: That's odd.. The script I posted had some things encrypted with ASCII, although ProBoards changes it back to normal.. If you choose to use this script then change "support", "saybox.co.uk" and "@" to their ASCII counter-parts |
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Post by Renegade on May 19, 2005 21:50:48 GMT
Rather than us being targeted by the usual spam from bots, it appears that somebody with the SayBox email in their address book has the Trojan.Ascetic.C worm, meaning we were constantly being hit with hundreds of emails all appearing to come from different email addresses. The best solution would be for the person who has the virus to remove it from their PC, but as the return headers are forged, we can't tell where the emails are really being sent from. |
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Post by Tau Online on May 20, 2005 20:04:42 GMT
Rather than us being targeted by the usual spam from bots, it appears that somebody with the SayBox email in their address book has the Trojan.Ascetic.C worm, meaning we were constantly being hit with hundreds of emails all appearing to come from different email addresses. The best solution would be for the person who has the virus to remove it from their PC, but as the return headers are forged, we can't tell where the emails are really being sent from. Ah right, I presumed that it was just a spam bot.. Is it about 100 spam a day? |
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Post by Fredy on May 21, 2005 13:12:38 GMT
if we didn't have almost 1000 members, i'd say take a poll to see who has a virus scanner and who doesn't lol.... you mass im everyone asking them if they have a virus scanner, fire wall or stuff along those lines |
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