Just logged into MrExcel, and it looks like they are either being spammed to heck and back, or under some sort of attack
Just logged into MrExcel, and it looks like they are either being spammed to heck and back, or under some sort of attack
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Maybe it's Sunday update like here :-D
Or maybe an influx of Chines newbies
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yeah it looks like they are being targeted
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen a huge increase in attacks on WordPress websites from automated bot-nets.
Last edited by Toonies; 09-06-2015 at 03:22 AM.
Whenever there's a big sporting event, we get a lot of spam posted for online streaming of the event - I reckon I deleted about 60 posts yesterday myself. It's annoying as hell, and obviously harder to keep up with at weekends, but I'm not sure I consider it an 'attack' per se. The last thing they want is to disable the forum.
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Just checked MrExcel board and it is fine and I found nothing unusual. However, our forum has been blocked by at least two major US banks and blocked for a while. When attempt to access the message says that "this site distributes viruses". The MrExcel site is always accessible. Can there anything be done to fix this?
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. BTW.
. The Excel Forum is regularly inaccessible, I have never experienced that with MrExcel
. The Excel Forum seemed to be playing up big time last week , being inaccessible
.. and encouraging duplicate posting, that is to say a double identical reply, which I saw a lot.
http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ml#post4180308
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. I guess MrExcel is more "Targeted" by attacks then ExcelForum as it moves a lot quicker / has a lot more traffic so..
a ) Better chance for the Spamming to go missed (- I have sometimes reported spam there that has been there days..)
b ) More attractive generally for "advertising" due to more people viewing / accessing.
Alan
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http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...ml#post4109080
https://app.box.com/s/gjpa8mk8ko4vkwcke3ig2w8z2wkfvrtv
http://excelmatters.com/excel-forums/ ( Scrolll down to bottom )
An user in CS thread wrote today:
Sorry – where I’ve been working this week ‘excel forum’ is coming up as a blocked site
MrExcel really is under the attack right now !
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