The spammer sent out 1800 pms. I have my pms set to max 20 at a time. They are obviously using software to auto send them.. I doubt anyone would send 20 out at a time.. and do it in a mater of hours. Possibly minutes. I still have no clue how they did it.
I could do it in less than 30 seconds... the crawler make a list of the usernames of your site by visiting your Memberlist... then the autoscript push the pms in the system... at first a test to see how many and in what delay, and then automate the process to push them without anyother help.
btw, having a limit for the new members is good, it force the spammers to chat on the forum... usually they are bored after 10 posts...
01-20-2008, 05:06 PM
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