What are all these garbage messages that have started appearing in questions?

BrianE

Loads of garbage about HP printers, Norton antivirus, etc. Has the forum been hacked by any chance?

dhn

Lousy spam filters by Insided. Flag a few as spam.

LornaTT

As dhn says, they slipped past the spam filters. We've updated them now and removed the spam posts. Thanks

Niall

@Lorna

They are still coming 6 minutes after your last post !!

Niall

@Lorna

What spam filter? still coming 22 mins after your last post (11 more!!)

Niall

@Lorna

So here we go with another avalanche of spam, InSided spam filter is a load of c**p, 25 in the last hour, and still they come
Have recently had a number of post 'awaiting moderators' to be cleared then we get this

BrianE

There must be some really sad and twisted people about if they've got nothing better to do than cause trouble for others with their spam, trojans, viruses et al. I'm glad I've got a router with a robust defence (at least I hope it has, it's blocked lots of bad stuff recently).

Niall

Fortunately the US office is still open so have raised a 2nd level support ticket to try and get this spam attack squashed, but it does raise the question as to what we 'elites' are supposed to do when the US office shuts down for the weekend!
@Lorna @VikramK @lampard some positive instructions would be nice

dhn

I can't even get the Report button to work today when I try to report one of the messages as spam!