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Someone has made another forum spam program to post to forums, and I thought I would warn all of it, I will post in as many forums as I can and let the forum owners relay it to other forums to help spread the word of this to as many forums as they can.

Link to program page:
http://fp.icontool.com/

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Mon May 28, 2007 3:55 pm
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This software's licence is Shareware - 7 Days Trial, which means that this program allows a free trial period of 7 days from the installation date. This is not free software. Subject to the author's terms, you are licensed by the author to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 7 days. If you use this software after the 15-day evaluation period a registration fee is required.
If you wish to register and receive the full version of this Shareware - 7 Days Trial program, it will cost you US$ 139.95
If you have any problems, please send email to us with the exact description of your difficulty.

Well, could be a usefull tool for people such as myself that post bangs on multiple boards, but not at $140 !!
Not sure how to block this, asside from the IP ban once they try. 
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Forum Poster automatically register a user with the username, e-mail and password you typed on the board. It login as the registered user on the board and then post it. All made automatically. With just one click! (Please browse our demo boards for posting)
Forum Poster support add, edit, delete forums URL, Import and export forum URL list.
Forum boards are an effective way to drive traffic to your site. With your posted Ads you can bring hundreds of new visitors to your site and increase your search
engine rankings which counts on link popularity like Google.
Please download the Trial version and see yourself. The trial version can make 20 complete postings in one session.

It does sound like it won't auto create a username, you will have to create an account yourself so that's good.
 
And to save Vulcan time his reply was
\"Vulcan\" wrote:
I agree it has some merit, but most people that use it will program it for what user name they want and let it spam, I downloaded it to see what it does, they can setup a user, pass and all other info ahead of time then tell it to run, and if someone has the reg for their forums set for captia, it reads it and verifies and when the email is sent it caps it and logs in and starts mass posting, it is a good written program, if anyone uses it correctly it could work nice, but most that use it will spam their porn or other objectionable posts, I just had a fight against this type of program, not long ago, it bypasses all things in place to stop login bots, so due to this, I have my forum set to manual aproval from me or the other staff. So if any TW player registers, make sure they are legit or it gets deleted and banned. I am working on getting the forum maker to make a better deterent to stop the spam.
for some reason my forums come up high on google for hits. laff and the spam bots start coming to the forum that has the most hits. Go figure. The reason I am posting this, is this, when all other TW forums gain traffic and get a lot of hits from the traffic and search engine bots, the program will home in on them as well, so I thought I would get a warning out to the TW community to let them know it is out there with the other programs that do the same, this one is a little better.

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