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Old 06-15-2010, 11:26 PM
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If I google "Aptera Forum" I get a headline advertising cheap viagra. Is this true for everyone else? Has the forum been hacked? Has PW had his IT people get revenge on the forum? Just wondering...
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Old 06-15-2010, 11:46 PM
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Spammers. *shrugs*

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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Old 06-16-2010, 12:03 AM
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haha thats very creative, but not sure if it really helps their cause. I'm sure the folks at Pfizer did not do it, but some reseller. Or as you said, just some hacker who is doing it just for fun. I wonder how long it has been this way?
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Old 06-16-2010, 12:07 AM
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the cached site is ....

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us

otherwise the links look good (goes to apteraforum) and the forum data seems clean. Just somehow somebody replaced the cached site information at Google.
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Old 06-16-2010, 12:20 AM
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Currently, we can ban spammers faster than they can make accounts and post ads. Plus, we remove Avatars and taglines. I also flag youtube spam when I find links from our 'guests'-- so youtube can remove the offending videos.

I think the strategy is starting to really bug the spammers. The awesome thing is, they're giving me new keywords to search and ban old spam accounts with.

Muahahahahaha.
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Old 06-16-2010, 12:40 AM
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I wonder how long it has been this way?

I noticed it on my work computer because, being work, I didn't create a favorite shortcut and have always just googled the forum. It first showed up about ten days ago. I thought that maybe that computer had caught some spyware so I didn't mention it until today when I googled the forum on my home computer and saw the same thing.
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Old 06-16-2010, 11:38 AM
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I googled just 'aptera' and got the viagra link too. Does aptera have to fix this? If so, the public will be waiting a long time.
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But at least it clicks through to this forum. Maybe that's little consolation.
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It's back to normal now.
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Old 06-20-2010, 05:17 PM
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It is still there for my list at www.apteraforum.com/

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The second tagline has been corrected at www.apteraforum.com › Aptera Talk

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