Thanks for posting this. We've had similar problems at GaTech and have had to lock down our sites to just GaTech domains. These spammers are pretty sophisticated, actually tailoring their attacks to Swiki. I advise others to lock down their sites as well.
Peace and Luck! Jeff On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:49:40PM +0200, ulf freyhoff wrote: > hi there, > just lost my domainname due to excessive pharma and other spam attacks > which are linked to within the last few days from various guestbooks and > blogsites around the world. > > for example: > http://www.fischen.li/gaestebuch/gaestebuch.php > > is a who is who in swikis. according to changing logs there seems to be > a war between different spammers underways. > they even managed even to create changes authored by 'not available'. > > SORRY FOR HTML MAIL: DO NOT CLICK>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > History of this Page (hawaii vacations) > > This document contains a history of this page, from the current version > to the earliest one available. > > *Version* *Name* *User* *Date* *Time* > current <http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/imged/217> hawaii > vacations 196.40.26.246 4 May 2006 8:12 pm > > > > PROFESSIONAL WEB HOSTING :: ABOUT PROFESSIONAL WEB HOSTING > 125.243.112.130 4 May 2006 9:21 pm > > > > hawaii vacations 196.40.26.246 4 May 2006 8:12 > pm > > > > > > as a first measure against this we closed down all standard swikis as > 'refs', 'docs' and 'imged'. > > we suggest you check your swikis > > > grtx ulf. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pws mailing list > Pws@cc.gatech.edu > https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/pws -- Jochen "Jeff" Rick, PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech College of Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.je77.com/, work: 404-385-1105 _______________________________________________ Pws mailing list Pws@cc.gatech.edu https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/pws
