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Posted 10 Nov 2008 - 02:14 PM

Ok, here's the two second update on the site as I'm sure you all noticed it has been a little slow.

Last month (ish) an exploit was discovered in the discussion board we use, allowing malicious "spamBots" to attack the board with bogus (very bad) posts. I had no choice to manually go through every new user and delete the spam accounts. With as many as a hundred new users a day, this was no small task every morning so I decided to shut off all new registrations until the problem was resolved.

Well, I was able to upgrade to the latest version. Things "should" be back to normal, and the registration options have been reopened.

I'll keep an eye on it for now to see if any bots get through.

Cheers!
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