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If I got rid of my ARP addiction.... I probably would be a better person... then again maybe not...

I can say on both the tech side and business side: H-talk has helped my business a bunch!

THX to the folks who run the site, and THX to folks who post information... you are BOTH appreciated.

Originally Posted by koolkahuna

Thanks for all your hard work Dad. Thanks to everyone who runs and maintains this site!
I can't begin to tell you how much of a benefit this site is.
May God bless you and all the HVAC TALK members this year.

X 100 !!!

Originally Posted by koolkahuna

Thanks for all your hard work Dad. Thanks to everyone who runs and maintains this site!
I can't begin to tell you how much of a benefit this site is.
May God bless you and all the HVAC TALK members this year.

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Hvac talk made me a way better tech and at this point can't live a day without it lol

Thanks for all your hard work Dad. Thanks to everyone who runs and maintains this site!
I can't begin to tell you how much of a benefit this site is.
May God bless you and all the HVAC TALK members this year.

Kids should be shot onsite for touching an adults machine.

That's the rule here, touch it and die a horrible death

Originally Posted by beshvac

Christmas eve was up at 2am in the morning putting out presents under the tree.....go to my PC to check email (haven't been near it since the kids got there)....Had to restore to a previous date!....Wife went back to bed while I restored and backed up....

There's so much stuff out there to get its crazy.

Originally Posted by Joehvac25

Reminds me of the time someone crashed our system at work from pregnant women porn lol, my boss tried blaming everyone including me, I said listen my wife has been pregnant twice and I think I already got my fill lol. I bet it was him.

Christmas eve was up at 2am in the morning putting out presents under the tree.....go to my PC to check email (haven't been near it since the kids got there)....Had to restore to a previous date!....Wife went back to bed while I restored and backed up....

Originally Posted by beshvac

Had my family in for the holiday's....3 computers with internet access all the kids were using....Thank god for virus protection and have removed more viruses the last 4 days than I have in the last 3 years.

Reminds me of the time someone crashed our system at work from pregnant women porn lol, my boss tried blaming everyone including me, I said listen my wife has been pregnant twice and I think I already got my fill lol. I bet it was him.

Had my family in for the holiday's....3 computers with internet access all the kids were using....Thank god for virus protection and have removed more viruses the last 4 days than I have in the last 3 years.

Yup... I just popped another 2417 spoof accounts in November.

I think I've got the majority of them now and will be resetting all the filters on the registration end. Hopefully I can turn registrations back on by the end of today. But, even with the filters in place there will be a few that manage to get through. Nothing is perfect.

I just flagged three posts. all from different users but all accounts opened November 26 2012. looks like a trend.

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Originally Posted by ga-hvac-tech

Seems that way to me also... However lets keep that in ARP...

I agree

Originally Posted by Joehvac25

I hear you there. I'd swear this site is half hvac and have political debate. I come for the hvac. Some people I see in the arp I have never seen in any sort of hvac related post so I assume they are here to have a little fun I guess.

Seems that way to me also... However lets keep that in ARP...

Originally Posted by jdblack

Also you guys need to know that you can report it with tapatalk. just hit the post select more and then report. its fast and easy. i use it all the time.

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Ok never noticed thanks!

Also you guys need to know that you can report it with tapatalk. just hit the post select more and then report. its fast and easy. i use it all the time.

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Dad sounds like a full time job, on tap talk there is no quick way like the triangle is there?

For you guys who want to know...

Spammers from several different countries have been seeding our site for months with spoof registrations. Just a few at first then they hit us hard for the past few months. I watched our registration numbers increase but it got to the unbelievable numbers so I did some checking.

To date I've removed about 21,000 of these spoof registrations. This has to be done by hand. I'm still working on it. To keep them from making more I turned off the registration menu. When I catch up to most all I can find then I will turn the registrations back on with several filters to slow them down or reject them.

I'm working on October now. The 21,000 was from December and November.

If you look at the spammers join date it will be back from a month or two when they joined. Can't get them all and my eyes are spinning. Spent my holidays here busting a cap in their arse best I can. But... it's a one registration at a time, looking up IP's and matching to their country. China, Russian, Taiwan, Turkey, Iran, India, Nigeria and the list goes on. If you look at my globe below you will see that I've also blocked major IP regions.

Not all of these are bots. Some countries actually hire low income workers to search their seed registrations until they find one that will accept a post. Spammers love humans... there is an art to their posts...they spoof you into thinking there is a value to their post with links taking you off site. Chances are these links contain malware that will also seed your computer. In some cases it will P2P your computer to make them more powerful. Don't click on any spoof links.

Doing the best I can and you guys are great help by reporting them to the triangle if you can see it.


thx

Originally Posted by ga-hvac-tech

That is a new one.... have not seen that yet.

What I do see is lots of spam in ARP... however it is not advertising...

Isn't that the truth!

Originally Posted by ga-hvac-tech

That is a new one.... have not seen that yet.

What I do see is lots of spam in ARP... however it is not advertising...

I hear you there. I'd swear this site is half hvac and have political debate. I come for the hvac. Some people I see in the arp I have never seen in any sort of hvac related post so I assume they are here to have a little fun I guess.