I have noticed a new spam problem on my vBulletin forum. People register and post messages that have nonsence content with hidden links in the messages. The links are hidden with bbCode.
The posts contains no real content and has a hidden link. The link can only be seen if you edit the message and then switch edtor mode so that the bbCode tags can be seen. The hidden spam tags are made in the following way:
I have not found a good way to find this kind of bbCode hidden spam posts.
Has anyone got any suggestions about how to find this kind of hidden spam and how I could change my forum setup to handle this problem better?
The posts contains no real content and has a hidden link. The link can only be seen if you edit the message and then switch edtor mode so that the bbCode tags can be seen. The hidden spam tags are made in the following way:
Code:
[NOPARSE][URL="http://spam-site-url.com"][COLOR=#f7f7f7][U]spam-site[/U][/COLOR][/URL][/NOPARSE]
Has anyone got any suggestions about how to find this kind of hidden spam and how I could change my forum setup to handle this problem better?
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