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Leiden Classical Project News 4 july 2008

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:15 am    Post subject: Leiden Classical Project News 4 july 2008 Reply with quote


Yesterday this BOINC project and a lot of other people fell victim to a spammer. Spam content was scripted into this projects fake user profiles and spam send from an yet unknown e-mail relay server, referred to these fake profiles. Measures taken at Leiden Classical were: 1) fake user accounts and profiles removed from DB, 2) user agent checks implemented into server PHP code (thanx to Willy de Zutter from BAM and BOINCstats) and 3) akismet checks on profile content has been implemented. Hope these measures stop the spammers!

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