Chinese Characters when I click on show unread posts since last visit

[bjanes]

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

[Jim Kasson]

Me, too.

[Peter McLennan]

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.

[graeme]

Me, too.

+1. I suppose I'd better do some actual work instead

[DtEW]

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?

[schertz]

Looks like a spam fest on several threads 
I feel sorry for Chris et al. having to clean up all this mess 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

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

[Dave Rosser]

Ditto.  Hope it is not a serious attack.

[nirpat89]

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.

[scyth]

What is happening?

Fancy Bear...

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

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.

[Christopher Sanderson]

Dealt with for now.

It will probably recur...