New Anti-Spam System - Page 31  

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Originally Posted by Nifty-Chicken 

Over the past 6 days all the BYC family of forums have been hit hard with spam... LOTS of spam.   In fact, in just the first 12 hours of the day today 250 spammers signed up on BYC alone!

Won't chickens eat spam? If so, we can sic our roosters on the spam, they'll eat 250 in no time flat.

I may have been added to the spam or a newbie group by accident ( I have over 1500 posts) because I can't access any features from ie9, ff or chrome. I'm posting from AOL and can access features from here.

On the other ones I can sign in but otherwise am treated like a visitor. I'd much prefer to come in with ie9. I've cleaned up the cache and temps and gone over the computer with a fine tooth comb with a more computer savvy person than myself with no improvement.

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it 

At least one person fixed his IE problem with these suggestions:

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/621517/posting-a-new-classified-add-help

Somewhere else I read firewalls can be a problem.  If none work, try filling out the Ask Us form at the top of this forum.

I'm just passing things along -- not computer savvy here, and my IE shuts itself down.  I use FF without a problem.

Had one spam on my IE and I successfully deleted it. I even had one that was a virus but luckily, my spyware caught it and deleted it to cyberspace somewhere out there. I am guessing once the new BYC was up and running, those ugly spammers and virus wreckers would take advantage of our vulneribility of nagivating the new forums and threads in here.

Pays to be extra careful now!

I think it is wonderful that you are trying to protect the site, so I guess I am going to have a lot of reading to do.  Hard for an old brain to comprehend but will give it all I've got. 

Thanks

Rose Brown

This is kind of a pain for those of us that are new.  I have to say that it makes that site significantly less useful.

considering that I have been a member for nearly a year and am still unable to post

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