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RSR 555 wrote:I'm glad it's back up.. I was getting withdrawal symptoms

Haha me too, I felt all depressed, lol

Thank god! Felt like I lost a limb for a couple of days

Huge thanks to the mods for dealing with this, indeed a tedious behind the scenes job. Seems like the site is almost being purposefully attacked, but why? Not like there's any money to valuable information to be gained...well valuable to anyone but Subaru enthusiasts

To prove they can do it ...

TOONGA

I'm changing web hosts. It was panic by the current we hosts that shut the site down. If they looked in to it they could see that we had been inundated with spam on our registration page. They simply chose to shut us down instead of helping. It is going to take a while to migrate to a new server. There is about 14 years of backups to download and upload. There is gigs of data to be transferred and it is slow going because of my weak internet service. (Says its adsl but I'm right at the end of the exchanges reach and it's pitifully slow)

The migration should be seamless. If there is down time it will hopefully only be late at night. There is the Facebook page where people can keep up to date should things go wrong.

The registration process for new users will be enabled again once I get things sorted out.

We're all grateful for the work you do behind the scenes

Another one escaped ...

showthread.php?t=24984

Cheers, Bantum ...

And we've got another one - sending spam PMs

Cheers

Bennie

El_Freddo wrote:And we've got another one - sending spam PMs

Cheers

Bennie

Yep same user spammed me

Do you want to take part in hot sales at government and police auction for Cars, Trucks, SUVs and other many items? Go to the site http://govauction5.rnrnh.com P.S. Sign up on the site in order to get full access to auction base.

TOONGA

I got the same PM. Strange they joined the forum nearly 2 years ago??

If you get any more spam PM's post here i will deal with it thanks

Jan

mmm, group spammed me too - got another PM there, wonder if same crap ....

Got me to, told him/it no thanks

I deleted mine. My computer doesn't like viruses.

I love how the web address looks legit until the ".rnrnh" part...

Cheers

Bennie

All fixed user banned

Jan

Sadly I would say the users account was "hacked" like Frogs attempted hack.

the list below are the worst of 2014

1) 123456
2) password
3) 12345
4) 12345678
5) qwerty
6) 1234567890
7) 1234
8 ) baseball
9) dragon
10) football
11) 1234567
12) monkey
13) letmein
14) abc123
15) 111111
16) mustang
17) access
18 ) shadow
19) master
20) michael
21) superman
22) 696969
23) 123123
24) batman
25) trustno1

If you use a simple password your account will be very vunerable. a mixture of uppercase lower case and numbers make it way harder for people to guess your password.

something like W4r7h0g is way harder to guess or bruteforce than warthog.

And now I can never use that as a password

TOONGA

JUST HAD AN EMAIL SAYING SOMEONE HAD FAILED 5 TIMES TO LOGIN ON MY USER,
KNOWING I HADN'T JUST TRIED TO LOGIN, ITS OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE HACKING IT,

"The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 36.248.9.139"

longy99gt wrote:JUST HAD AN EMAIL SAYING SOMEONE HAD FAILED 5 TIMES TO LOGIN ON MY USER,
KNOWING I HADN'T JUST TRIED TO LOGIN, ITS OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE HACKING IT,

"The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 36.248.9.139"

Don't stress, you're not the only one.

Thread is here.

Cheers

Bennie

Thread is: online casinos ceydl in the Sandbox
Post is: https://www.ausubaru.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=26523
User: gedaGedsIrrance

Something needs to be done about all these “payday loan members” that have become very active on the forum... dunno if they’re human or bot.

There must be sixty or more of these posts with what appear to be links to dodgy websites (not going to try one of those FYI).

Looking forward to ridding the forum of these posts and “members”.

Cheers

Bennie

Yeah, I'm happy to volunteer my services as a Mod to keep that sort of gear of this valuable forum.