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spam post on GW crreating havic on screen

17 years ago

On the building forum, there is a post that I clicked on that turns the whole screen into pics of cats that turn into hissing cats.

The post is spam.

What is causing this?

I know GW had problems last night.

I checked my computer and do not have any virus.

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Comments (8)

stargazzer
17 years ago
I went there and could only pick up a couple of words, but looks like spam. I saw "make money" behind the cats. LOL I don't see the point in it if you can't read it.
mikie_gw
17 years ago
Some of the gardenweb members purposely mess up spamed pages by adding stuff like that cat. Then you cant read their spam ! Wonder how much money would could have made.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
17 years ago
there is a red alert message at the top of the forums about the problems they are having, if you collapse it you can not see it.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
17 years ago
Some of the gardenweb members purposely mess up spamed pages by adding stuff like that cat. Then you cant read their spam !

Mikie is right. A member has just made the spam post unreadable.

Several of us 'regulars' at the Test Forum do that there, due to there being a lot of Spam posts, some of them being vulgar. We just post to it making a body background, and it renders the post pretty unreadable for the most part, but it starts its drop down the one and only page there.

I can see where it could cause trouble and be confusing if one did not know what was going on. Perhaps a background of
would be a lot less confusing.

If you want to see what the post says, just
right click, and then 'select all', or that is what it is in Firefox anyway.

A few days ago I did that to a thread at the Household Finance Forum, I think it was), and then I reported the URL via the Contact Us to GW so they could get it all gone. I think the post is gone now.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Spam post at The Test Forum.
lsst
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks everyone!
I was worried it was a virus or something.
When I receive e-mail reply messages for my post from GW, in my inbox every GW e-mail has an attachment and a blank message instead.
Is this part of their gremlin problem?

Thanks!
breenthumb
17 years ago
No, its not virus or part of the gremlin problem. If you see Chemocurl's message above, it will explain what it is.

I posted the cat over the spam messages he had in several forums. Sorry for the confusion. It was an especially bad time to do that, in light of the GW problems. Sorry about that. Sandy
susanjn
17 years ago
I liked the cats, Sandy.
breenthumb
17 years ago
Thanks, Susanjn. I checked back on some of the forums I had done to see if there was confusion and explain it but none of them seemed the least bit concerned. Except for one lady who was reading it when the cats came up and it startled her! Others liked it as well, as he had been a very prolific spammer and I saw several posts asking GW to get him off.

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