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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: bjanes on August 28, 2017, 10:32:33 am

Title: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: bjanes on August 28, 2017, 10:32:33 am: I have not changed any of my settings for the forum. When I am on the home page, the threads appear normally in English. When I try to show new posts, the threads appear in Chinese type characters.

What is happening?

Bill
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Jim Kasson on August 28, 2017, 10:38:42 am: Me, too.
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Peter McLennan on August 28, 2017, 10:40:53 am: And me. Just in the last hour or so. Not all posts. This one, for example is fine.
Must be punishment for the Trump II thread. :)
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: graeme on August 28, 2017, 10:49:41 am: Quote from: Jim Kasson on August 28, 2017, 10:38:42 am
Me, too.

+1. I suppose I'd better do some actual work instead :'(
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: DtEW on August 28, 2017, 11:03:12 am: Actually, those are Korean characters (look for the little circles in the characters). Looks like a new member ("wojabovi") turned out to be a 'bot. He apparently joined this morning and managed to scroll some forums in a little more than an hour. Do we have mods that can be reached?
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: schertz on August 28, 2017, 11:42:46 am: Looks like a spam fest on several threads
I feel sorry for Chris et al. having to clean up all this mess :(
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on August 28, 2017, 11:45:42 am: Quote from: schertz on August 28, 2017, 11:42:46 am
Looks like a spam fest on several threads
I feel sorry for Chris et al. having to clean up all this mess :(

Indeed, spam for a Casino site of sorts.

Chris, you have our (mental) support.

Cheers,
Bart
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Dave Rosser on August 28, 2017, 11:46:01 am: Ditto. Hope it is not a serious attack.
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: nirpat89 on August 28, 2017, 11:55:31 am: Quote from: Peter McLennan on August 28, 2017, 10:40:53 am
And me. Just in the last hour or so. Not all posts. This one, for example is fine.
Must be punishment for the Trump II thread. :)

Could be Kim Jong-Un thanking you for it.
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: scyth on August 28, 2017, 11:56:43 am: Quote from: bjanes on August 28, 2017, 10:32:33 am
What is happening?
Fancy Bear...
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on August 28, 2017, 12:33:42 pm: I suspect Wojabovi is just another synonym for Covfefe.

And another variant has been spamming a different thread.

Good luck to Chris et al in defusing the bots.
Title: Re: Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit
Post by: Christopher Sanderson on August 28, 2017, 01:01:02 pm: Dealt with for now.

It will probably recur... >:(