Fighting foreign character encoding spam?

[ChriSsY]

I'm having a hard time combating a new type of spam that has been plaguing my forum for weeks now.

messages like:

ìîè ñàìûå-ñàìûå ôîòî÷êè http://spam-url.com (ÿ èõ òóò...

[ChriSsY]

Suhosin
Module Loaded = No

mod_security
AJAX Unicode Issue = No

Those are the only two results after running the test.

[ChriSsY]

Thanks for the input guys, turns out it was an easier option to just switch hosts.

http://www.pair.com/policies/dbresource.html

Thanks anyway!

[ChriSsY]

I've since fixed the white post issues on the forum, but the admincp template issues are still affected.

It isn't a white pages as such either...

When i've edited a fairly large...

[ChriSsY]

Wondered if anyone could shed some light on this issue.

When posting fairly large replies/threads i get redirected to a blank page.

On smaller posts of a a paragraph everything...

[ChriSsY]

I'm currently trying to move my forum to a new hosting provider, but am having trouble importing the SQL.

I currently have my attachments stored in the filesystem but am still receiving mysql...

[ChriSsY]

If it's not too late i'd like to nominate Talk Android

http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/

[ChriSsY]

I've spent the last few days porting over a style from v3.5 to 3.7 and after upgrading and installing the new style im now receiving reports of:

"Your submission could not be processed...

[ChriSsY]

thanks for the suggestion, but it doesnt help the dropdown notice links

[ChriSsY]

Hello,

I currently have my forum installed in / but use mod rewrite to make the forum display as /forum/

When logged in the notifications drop down displays the urls like /groups.php...

[ChriSsY]

I'm using a number of forumid IF statements to display different text for each individual forum.

Eg,

<if condition="$forumid == 24">text for cat 24</if>...

[ChriSsY]

Can anyone fix this IF conditional for me?

<if condition="(($post[postcount] % $vboptions[maxposts] == 1)) and ($show['guest']) and in_array($forumid, array(21,15))">
...

[ChriSsY]

Thanks for that, the (?) help prompt suggested i enabled it. I've just set that option to 'No' re-run the RSS import and all white spaces are intact

Thanks a bunch guys

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[ChriSsY]

Currently im mirroring some news via Feedburner from one of my blogs into a subforum. But im having some trouble with the formatting.

The feedburner RSS feeds are formatted perfectly, but...

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Anyone know the code to display an ad inside the first post of a thread (guests only), that'll display in the top post for every page of the thread?

Thanks!

[ChriSsY]

Yeah, i can't even move the files out of the database:

MySQL Error : MySQL client ran out of memory
Error Number : 2008

[ChriSsY]

The database is ~189.45mb and also houses the attachments/avatars etc.

I did contemplate moving the filesystem to it's own dir but wasn't sure whether the process would complete given the...

[ChriSsY]

Sorry for bumping this again, but im still stuck with this. I would move hosts but because of this problem i'm unable to make any recent database backups.

Here's the current response:...

[ChriSsY]

Thanks Steve, i'll try contacting them again but previously i just received:


Anyone know what i could ask them to do?...

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Im currently vBulletin 3.6.3 and have recently discovered that when i try to backup the database i always receive the following:

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save...