Dodgy posts: whats going on?
 

Hey, moderators, where art thou?
we seem to be under attack.

They removed the first ones.

I messaged a mod(in a non Ledge way) that it was blowing up again, but didn't hear back.

Notice how the sender uses several different variations on the same name? I hope that doesn't make it more difficult to block this as*hole.

I was in bed with a bad back... I did delete what I saw.

I've contacted Michele and meanwhile canceled all the posts that I could and banned the profiles with the same IP adress of the spammers but I don't think it's over like this.

I believe the ledge has been under attack for awhile. The site takes forever to load and someone said there are all kinds of ads that are hidden on it and that is the reason for the longer load time. I hope it can get fixed.

??? Is Nascar Bob still in the mix or have I missed something?

Nascar Bob?

Sorry, I cant remember his exact name but I'm sure it was something like that. I thought he'd bought the site off Michele but though I looked I cant find the single post he made.

Edit: just found it; Brooks/RacerGT.
I was along the right lines.

The site owner isn't also the administrator from what I know.

I went through and deleted many suspicious users. Hopefully that will clear this up.

Thanks Michele.

All very odd! What have we done to deserve this?

Thanks for sorting it out Michele. (And everyone else!)

Thank you, Michele!

How did anyone not notice there were at least 3 user
names that were similar? How many jams does it take?

1. Were our passwords compromised?
2. Chrome warns us that this site is not secure.

If you have an active email associated with this site,
I'd be concerned.

Yes site takes FOREVER to load. I thought it was something with my flash. I updated and it still took forever. Anyone else still having this problem? Plus I see adds.

It's odd that you mentioned the email addy, because for the past couple of weeks, my spam has increased ten fold, if not more. I even called my isp this week, trying to figure out if they changed their filters or something. I block it all when it comes in, yet it keeps coming (and that hasn't happened for a long long time).

Yes I have the same problem. :mad:

Yes. The Ads are to blame for the slow time. I installed a Popup and Ad Block program and my load time is normal now. Something in the Ads is trying to load malicious software or hack. I have a Mac or use IPhone so am unaffected by the malicious codes and ads. The Blocker filters out the ads so all I get is the regular site

I've always had an ad blocker, so I've never seen any ads. I haven't noticed anything different here.

Thank you, Michele.

Wonder if my two questions could be officially
answered by someone in the know?

Thank you SisterNightRoad for the time that you put in cleaning things up. Fleetwood Mac was buried in Russian porn, until you saved them. Michele

How would I know if your email address was compromised. AfAIK, the posters only had access that other users like yourself have and wouldn't be able to get your address. They were not in the administrative panel. But I am certainly no IT expert.

Michele

Putin and his Russian troll bot army are now attacking The Ledge

I just asked a few legitimate questions, you needn't get
snooty about it. As I am no IT expert either.

I'll say it again, how did anyone not notice there were
several "new" members with names very similar? And
these members were always on here at the same time.
That should have caused suspicion.

If these members caused the "Ledge" to slow down, who
knows what else they were able to do. As I mentioned
before and Homer (David) confirmed they probably gained
access to our email accounts. Maybe even pm's.

Last point (again) - Google Chrome says this site is not
secure.

Whenever you make a haughty post wondering why someone isn't answering your question, I will get snooty. Be assured. Michele

I don’t have any problems with this site, ad-wise or in terms of loading time.

Not sure what’s unsecure here either. For those concerned, maybe changing passwords would be a good idea.

I'm not saying that my spam explosion was due to the Ledge spam hacks, but it certainly made me curious.

That is all. :wavey:

Given the news, it is rather amusing to me that it really is coming from Russia. In the past I had DDOS attacks from Asia, but over the last months it has been Russia.

I understand that sites that use flash like this one does are flagged as unsecure by google, because flash is outdated.

In the past, I could go in and use a command to kill processes that made the site slow. But I no longer have access to the server, so I can't change the speed.

Michele

Well I'm certain that MANY of us miss your owning and governing of this beloved site.

You were certainly a high point in my 14 years here. I sincerely thank you. :xoxo:

Thank you. I miss it too and I love it that you and a few other veterans are still here. Right now, there are journalists on Twitter for DCist and other publications who are overwrought because the new owner came and brought the paper and then deleted all of their old columns. They used the Internet as an archive for their work and they were devastated that a new owner erased it.

I think many of us used this site as an archive for Fleetwood Mac history and our own and we just want to have it here for as long as we can. The Wayback machine is no replacement for the real thing.

Michele

Why was this board sold? I'm a little out of the loop, I guess.
Are archived posts being deleted?
What exactly is going on?
And what's the story about malicious software now being found on the board?
I'm really confused.
If somebody could please fill me in, I'd greatly appreciate it.
This is my favorite FM community.

No, archived posts aren't being deleted, here. I was just saying that it's happening to other websites and I'm glad/relieved it didn't happen to this one when I had to sell it.

No problem Michele, it was painful to see all those threads buried under rubbish.
On another note, who knew russian porn had a preference for interracial?

Is there any word on fixing the site so the load time is normal again. The load time is getting worse IMHO. The wait to load and then open threads is getting ridiculous. Can anyone fix it please?

Why are we still getting these posts from Jackpaull?
Is there a reason the account wasn't terminated when their first dodgy threads were started? This website has more holes in it than a sieve.

And many posts were deleted too. Fortunately not mines and happily many I wanted to see gone.... :blob2:

I’ve wondered what’s been going on. Don’t come here much anymore, but lately when I have, it takes forever to load. Hope it gets resolved, because it’s quite annoying.