Stealthy spammer - Posted (1028 Views)
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TastyNutz
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This concerns my Serverhacker (SHN Forums) and I wasn't sure of the appropriate place to to post.
At one point today my site wouldn't load properly and I couldn't login. It basically looked like an HTML page with a missing style sheet.
I had to recycle the application pool and then the site was fine.
But I then found a spammer somehow managed to post several new topics and a reply under an existing username without leaving any other traces of having been there. The username hasn't been used in years (last visit 2007) and doesn't show as a recent visitor. The user IP address also doesn't appear to have changed from the last visit in 07.
I rarely get spam and it's usually a manually registered account. So, even though this is just a minor irritant, I'm intrigued as to how it was done.
My forensic skills are limited so any suggestions on where to look would be appreciated.
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TastyNutz
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Correction... The Last IP in the Members table didn't change, but T_IP in the topics table did. At least now I have an IP and can block it.
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ruirib
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Actually, no forensic skills are needed. Your situation, resulting from app variables being lost, is known and there are fixes :

http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=67497&whichpage=2
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