Welcome hijk568

[Hook One]

Welcome from North MS. Glad to have you.

[Bob # 1]

Welcome from Indiana

["G"]

Welcome from Mississippi.

[Fatman]

Welcome aboard from Vermont

Fatman

[BamaMan]

Welcome from ALABAMA!!!

[gabowman]

Welcome from Ga.

[CrappiePappy]

.. but you're wasting your time with the "welcomes" to this guy :o

It's actually a spambot program from China ... one of several that I've caught & banned, in the last week. All of them, so far, have been similar user names .... 4 consecutive letters of the alphabet & then 3 numbers. That's generally a sign of a program bot, and not a "real person". Not always, but generally speaking. The usual "giveaway" is in their profile .... all the questions are answered with a single number (just something to fill the space, so the site program thinks an answer was given). The absolute giveaway is when they actually post :p .... alot of times it's garbled English, a foreign language, foreign text, and all that's interspersed with web links. They don't care if you don't understand ... all they want is for you to click on one of the links (out of curiosity), because that's how they get paid And, in some instances, the web link may even have a trojan program attached ... hoping to slip past your anti-virus defenses (if you have any) and snoop thru your files, where they can possibly access personal info, credit card #'s, bank accounts, whatever ... or even take control of your computer, make it a clone, and use it to send emails that can only be traced back to you.

In any case .... I was just using this thread to make a point. Well, several points :p :

Don't click on web links in posts that are obviously spam.
Do have a good, updated anti-virus program on your system.
Don't reply to obvious spam posts .... just report them.
Do inform a Moderator, if you suspect a "user" to really be a bot ... Mods can see more info about them, than the general membership.

... cp

[GCD]

Those welcomes were kind of funny... considering.

I saw that one yesterday morning Pappy, I posted to them to draw attention to them... but didn't know who exactly to contact on the board to tell them about it. Next time I'll shoot you a PM.

A good AV program is worth the money, I learned the hard way last year when I had to do a complete system restore on my puter.

[Barnacle Bill]

Those welcomes were kind of funny... considering.

I saw that one yesterday morning Pappy, I posted to them to draw attention to them... but didn't know who exactly to contact on the board to tell them about it. Next time I'll shoot you a PM.

A good AV program is worth the money, I learned the hard way last year when I had to do a complete system restore on my puter.

Look in the upper right hand part of each post and you will see a red/white triangle. Just click on it to report any post and mods will be notified.