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incursion
About this tag
The incursion tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about security breaches and unauthorized access events affecting the forum. Recent content describes a significant spam incursion where attackers created false accounts and posted spam profile posts. The incident required manual removal of approximately 1000 accounts and led to enhanced security measures. Topics under this tag include account takeovers, spam attacks, and the administrative response to such incursions. Users discussing incursions often focus on detection, cleanup, and prevention strategies for forum security.
Unfortunately Windowsforum.com suffered an extreme spam event at the weekend. The spammer initially struck Friday by managing to create a large number of false accounts. These accounts went unnoticed until Sunday by which time every account had profile posts showing.
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