Attention Section VII Members

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Our comm. as well as the Canteen have been hit with spam videos as of late, usually vids related to cats. (at the moment)

As you know we generally post vids here related to MFU or a MFU story, (or a particular holiday) so just as a precaution, don't open these cat videos as they could contain a virus.  I've been deleteing the vids and banning the users, but the vids keep showing up under different user names.

We may have to go back to locking  the community, temporarily.  Which means non-members will have to be approved to join Section VII in order to post. We deny any suspicious requests for membership and ban the user name.

However, this non-MFU vid- related to my post is safe to view:

Comments

[lilidelafield.livejournal.com]

Thanks appreciate the warning!

[sidhe-uaine42.livejournal.com]

I hope none of the "questionable" videos were mine. If they were, I apologize.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Chuckle, no worries. Nothing you posted. So don't apologize! If you'd posted something questionable one of us would have let you know. We usually try to stick to posing vids related to MFU, and for the song story challenge, and of course holiday related vids.

The ones that I deleted the last few days were obviously spam. Weird cat ones, and some sort of vid for vomiting bubbles that looked like 'scrubbing bubbles.' Creepy. I suspect their were of Japanese origin as that's what they looked like...related to that typical anime. My main concern was that the vids contained a virus so I wanted to warn people not to open them.

Section VII has since been locked down to members only posting for now, and new membership requests will be moderated. We've had to do this in the past when the spam got out of control, once the spammers get bored and go away, we'll open the comm. up again.

It beats having to monitor and delete and ban user names everyday.

You're a member so you won't have any problems posting.

It's my suspicion that LJ members out there have had their accounts hacked and the spammers steal their user names to keep sending out the spam under different names. As soon as you block one name, then the same post pops up with a new user name. No way they're creating new accounts to do this... Of course these vids have been reported as spam before being deleted so LJ can eventually catch up with them as well.