Spammed Account HOWTO What to do if someone notifies you that an account has been spammed 1. Verify that the account is, indeed, spammed. If there is active exploit code living in their web_scripts, this is not a spammed account, this is a hacked account. Go to hacked-account-howto.txt 2. Place the mitnet-htaccess.txt file as .htaccess file in the hacked directory, replacing the name and date with your name and date. 3. Notify the complaining party that the website has been disabled: Hello, We have disabled access to the website, which appears to have been compromised, and notified the account owner. Thanks, The scripts.mit.edu team 4. Notify the owner of the locker that their website has been spammed and blocked from external access. Do this by creating a new blank ticket with that user as the Requestor with status waiting for User Reply, and then posting a "Reply to requestors" comment with the following contents: Hello, It has come to our attention that your website has been overrun with spam: OFFENDING URL HERE We have accordingly disabled off-campus access to your website. Please clean up your compromised account, upgrade your software, and notify us when you have done so so we can restore off-campus access. Please let us know if you need any assistance in doing so. Thanks, The scripts.mit.edu team