Comments | avt_tor: a glut of silent spam

avt_tor

a glut of silent spam

Dec 23, 2009 08:03

Two years ago, I started working on a web site. I installed an online forum. Anyway the site never really went live. More recently, as I've been working on the SFContario web site, I turned on web statistics. And I discovered a lot of traffic on the site that had never been publicized ( Read more... )

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rono_60103 December 23 2009, 17:21:42 UTC

Thank you. I just double checked that the (more or less unused) forums at www.ron-oakes.us are locked down so that only authorized users can use them.

A couple of years ago, I had to change the system I was using to maintain galleries on that system (which is just my home Linux box through a fixed IP address) because some net.vandal in Europe had decided to abuse them as his or her personal plaything, and the traffic they were generating was disrupting other services (primarily VoIP).