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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby texasmr2 » 30 Dec 11, 21:01

The initial bug is now reappearing for me, anyone else?
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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby myownalias » 30 Dec 11, 21:31

texasmr2 wrote:The initial bug is now reappearing for me, anyone else?

It's not a bug, it's by design to stop bots brute forcing access to your account... without this piece of code, someone could be spamming all sorts of crap under your username!
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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby texasmr2 » 30 Dec 11, 21:41

That makes sense but why does it just happen out of the blue?? Not that I have a problem with it honey :wink: :hehe: !!
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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby myownalias » 30 Dec 11, 21:52

texasmr2 wrote:That makes sense but why does it just happen out of the blue?? Not that I have a problem with it honey :wink: :hehe: !!

I'm not a hacker or spammer, so don't know their motivation and timing, I guess they pick random users on the forum and attack them for a day or two, then move onto someone else!
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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby andrew » 30 Dec 11, 22:07

I don't think this is someone or something trying to hack into accounts on all occasions. Typo's do cause the user to be prompted to enter an additional code.
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Re: Someone keeps trying to hack into my account!

Postby LewEngBridewell » 30 Dec 11, 22:16

andrew wrote:I don't think this is someone or something trying to hack into accounts on all occasions. Typo's do cause the user to be prompted to enter an additional code.


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