Still Cursed With Spam on Some SMF Forums

Ouchmychin · Post by **Ouchmychin** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:16 am

After a month or so, I am still getting a long ad with many lines of sale offers, mostly travel related, on this forum and on the Selling forum. I haven't been able to find anything on my computer that is doing this. I'm wondering if it is only me or are others experiencing this. I don't want to format and reinstall everything just to cope with this. This is the only site I visit where this is happening.

Ouchmychin (Pete)

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:49 am

I haven't seen this directly, but have seen evidence of it through Google searches (back when that worked!), and I don't believe it's your computer.

Ouchmychin · Post by **Ouchmychin** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:46 pm

I am coming directly to the site without a Google search. The ads stay on the same forums every time.

Ouchmychin (Pete)

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:52 pm

Ouchmychin wrote:I am coming directly to the site without a Google search. The ads stay on the same forums every time.

I haven’t seen it with my own eyes, but I believe you’re correct.

Ouchmychin · Post by **Ouchmychin** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:57 pm

If you would like to see it too, I can copy the top of my page coming into this forum and attach it to my next post.

Ouchmychin (Pete)

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:03 pm

I’m not an admin so I can’t do anything, but I think you should post a picture of what you’re getting.

Post by **drmoss_ca** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:05 pm

There should be just a small box at the top right of the window with a Google ad in it. If this hasn't formatted correctly I would expect it to be a browser problem.
The only spam we get is from a few bots and even more rarely human sources that make posts and these get deleted as soon as an eagle-eyed moderator spots them.
Do show us a screenshot, and try a different browser.

Chris

PeterS · Post by **PeterS** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:10 pm

I've noticed this site no longer comes up on a Google search. Or is it just the UK?

notthesharpest · Post by **notthesharpest** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:15 pm

I get zero results when searching this site, whether from google.com or from the Google search box. The old search form works, sort of.

TorzJohnson · Post by **TorzJohnson** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:48 am

PeterS wrote:I've noticed this site no longer comes up on a Google search. Or is it just the UK?

See my "SpyFu" thread here in Feedback.