Anyone seeing this spam on main page?

[Dave]

Doug sent in this screen snip of some spam that has started appearing at the bottom of the main Forum page.

However, I can't replicate the problem on any of my PC's here in Australia.

Is anyone else seeing it?

Dave

[Jonathan]

Hi Dave,
I am in Victoria, Aus and I can see it at the bottom of the page.

Regards
Jonathan
Geelong

[cardan]

In South Australia and don't see it - PC running Windows 8.1

Leon

[roy]

Hi Dave, in Bath, England.

Not showing here.

Cheers, Roy.

[midman]

Not seeing it here either. USA

[Daren W Australia]

Hi not on my start page checked google chrome and MS internet explorer windows 7 pro64 Daren

[graeme]

Hi Dave

In Australia, and nothing to be seen on the main page or any other I've checked so far

[Dave]

Thanks very much to all who have posted so far. Very helpful to know both who is seeing it and who is not.

Jonathan,

I will contact you via PM

Dave

[oily bloke]

Hi,
Not here. Surrey, England.

[Dave]

Many thanks to Jonathan for the great information he provided about the spam.

We have tracked down the cause to a remnant file from a server hack that occurred back around 2011-2012. The spam would only be generated when certain keywords were searched or older topics viewed. The spam contained links that led to the usual sort of sites selling viagra and so forth.

The remnant file has now been removed and the spam should not re-appear. The web hosting company has scanned the server thoroughly for malware and nothing has been found. In addition, I have scanned all image files, attachments, avatars and documents with two anti-malware packages and all are reported to be clean.

Thank you again to all who responded to this topic. The fact that only one out of six respondents was seeing the spam was a key factor in locating the problem.

Dave