Wiki site redirects to virus laden host

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Wiki site redirects to virus laden host

Postby JasonWard » Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:30 pm


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Re: Wiki site redirects to virus laden host

Postby JasonWard » Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:52 pm

All changes by this user http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/User:Acecydoxose need to be reverted and the account/host banned.

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Re: Wiki site redirects to virus laden host

Postby cpg » Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:01 pm

Yes, our wiki was vandalized today.

Things have been escalating in the war against spam in the wiki for a little while.

This time it took us to a whole new level.

I think it may have been scripted and they bypassed all other antispam-measures by simply breaking the markup in a unique way: such that the parser of the markup did not notice the spammy links. pretty slick these spammers!

We have taking the system down (which also hosts the repos and the blog - so installs and news will be down for a little while).

Thanks for alerting!
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