Redirect codes in a post

We had a new member join our forum. She immediately went to 15 exsisting threads and somehow placed a redirect to a porn site.

How can we stop this from happening?

what did he put on the threads? links? or try removing the content of the post.

If you go to:
Admin panel >> General ( Tab ) >> Censoring / Word censor >> Create new & insert the name of the site > Save.

The site should be censored seeing as most pornographic-content websites use their name in their Internet Address

We have no idea what she put in the post, she placed the 15 posts with-in posts that were very active, one had 129 posts, another had over 200 posts. We eventually had to delete the entire threads.

When we opened the thread we would immediately be redirected to a porn site. My forum is 90% children.

This person and her friends (14-17 yr olds) are very upset that I banned them, the reason is very obvious.. Their user names and IP have all been banned, but they keep comng back with new IP's and user names.

Up until yesterday they would post very vulgar language about me and staff members. They dictionary dance to get around the censored words. Censoring that website would do no good, they will find another one. They crossed the line yesterday, placing porn on a childrens forum. Plus making the porn site automatically pop up.

I really need to know how the redirect can be stopped. Is it HTML, BB code or both?

EDIT: Perhaps there is a code I can use in my templates to stop any redirects?

disabling the html would most likely do it.
what this is she is placing a code in her post that you cant see.
you have to edit her post and remove the code.. something similar like this happened a few months back.. and after they removed the code from the post in the thread it no longer redirected.

So if this is indeed what is happening please send me the code for us staff to have a look at to see if there is something that can be added to see this will not happen any longer.. if not. all you can do is keep banning them.

Oh also.. i would disable the html then go back to the thread that is being redirected.. if it's no longer being redirected then you know it's the html.

but you have to go through this persons post and click edit to find the code and remove it..

let us know how you make out with this. there might be a few other possibilities as well. but we will have to trouble shoot everything,

Unfortunately, I can not give you the code. The redirect was so fat, that we didn't even have time to click delete, We finally had to delete the whole thread from the 1st page of the thread. We had parents & kids PM'ing us. Telling us to get rid of them ASAP. Now I have no IP on that person nor a post to prove.

I did send in to litigation and explained that they also have a forum with forumation. They dedicated a who section to me. I gave them a link to that forum, I was unable to do a snapshot as they have me banned. I am hoping that the legal department can go into their forum and able to read the stuff they planned and did to me.

if they come back and do it again you have to try to get into the thread to edit the post and remove the code. you dint have to delete the threads you could have moved them out of site from other members to try to figure out whats going on and how they are doing it.

if this happens again.. move the thread to a board where only staff have permission.. then create a hidden group. this way we can register put us in the group so we can see what it doing.. or any screen shots.. and actually dont even ban the member right away either. just take all there posting permissions away.

because i mean until we know exactly what is happening and if it is a code being used in the post there's really not much to go on at this point.. meaning us staff or admins here will have to see whats happening for us to better understand..

i have a feeling this is something like what has happened to a member a few months ago.. but can not be 100% sure yet either.

oh i have an idea but am not sure if it will work.
are you useing phpbb2 or punnbb.

if so put this code in the over all footer bottom of the page.

http://anonym.to/

Code:

<script src="http://js.anonym.to/anonym/anonymize.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
protected_links = "";

auto_anonymize();
//--></script>


what i am hoping is. that when you open a thread that is being redirected. it will open this anonymize to redirect through there. then by clicking out of it wile it is trying to redirect i am hoping the thread will stay open and then you can start going through post to find this code.

but it's a long shot i am not sure if it will work or not but is worth a try.

I understand you can't do anything right now. About putting them into a private garbage area, you are correct. However, I didn't think of it last night. I had a meal cooking, and a little one that saw that porn site. Parents and other children after us, another admin on the phone. I was overwhelmed and all I could think of was get rid of it all ASAP.

Thank you for your help. I will remember if it happens again

Conknet wrote:I understand you can't do anything right now. About putting them into a private garbage area, you are correct. However, I didn't think of it last night. I had a meal cooking, and a little one that saw that porn site. Parents and other children after us, another admin on the phone. I was overwhelmed and all I could think of was get rid of it all ASAP.

Thank you for your help. I will remember if it happens again

understandable
the last thing you want is haveing kids or parents of kids that are on your forum seeing any such content..but yes if it happens again please just move at least one thread so we can see actually what this is doing. i understand it's being redirected but would be better to try to analyse it seeing whats happening first hand

At the present time, if you want this abuse to stop, you MUST disable HTML. For some unknown reason, forumotion allows the <meta http-equiv="refresh"> HTML tag to be in posts when HTML is enabled, and this tag can immediately redirect someone to a new location.

To the staff of this forum: please, PLEASE get through to someone at forumotion to disable the <meta> tag in posts! That tag has no use whatsoever in a post except to cause trouble. Stripping the tag from posts is simple to do -- most of the PHP code needed has already been written. They just need to use the same code that is currently stripping <script> tags from posts...

I did disable the HTML last night. As I surfed and it seemed to be the HTML that allowed it

Thank you

EDIT:

This is the code that person used, to redirect the posts to an X-rated website.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.vfkfanforums.com/forum.htm">

In a split second, the above example code would re-direct you to the http://www.vfkfanforums.com/forum.htm website. I have disabled HTML on the forum, and tested the code, It does not redirect anymore.

If you check out the very first post on my forum "We are so sorry". You will see that many have been upset.

The group of kids are singing like canaries , after I told them I filed litigation yesterday. They are all blaming a certain person that is older and does web developing. I am not sure they are telling the truth, as they lie quite good and often.