Thanks again BTW, it seems as if the Koreans now operate from the USA or using a proxy or some like this!
Now I´m off to play the newest game on gog, the Spam-Shmup!!!

If you want to make it faster, you can use this script, made by toxicTom.

I can confirm that it is a really nice gift indeed (and works); though, not my cup of tea, so I left it. Anyway, +1 and thanks for Ryusenshu. :)

But I have two OT questions because of this:
1) for how long a code remains "temporarily" locked after seeing?
2) can even a non-existing code become "temporarily locked"?

So much spam about "war," I think North Korea is literally declaring war on us...

Well, I guess Kim Jong is iller than ever!!!

1) shouldn't be more than a couple of minutes
2) AFAIK no

Seems we're back to the time of day when the spammers are most active. BG, NWN, and Witcher 2 need some more clean up. Has anyone seem the spam hit any subforums that aren't in this list?
Baldur's Gate
Fallout
Neverwinter Nights
Might and Magic
Witcher 2
French General Discussion

It doesn't seem regular enough to be a bot. My personal theory is that this is several people getting paid to just open new threads in forums to try and generate traffic on the site. Like the infamous WoW gold farmers. If you get paid per thread you open, you won't much care whether the forum can read the post or not.

Today it's only been BG, NWN & TW2, plus 1 isolated spam in M&M.

I'm puzzled by your theory: why would Koreans be paid to generate traffic on GOG? By whom?

Hmm, maybe they get payed by the mighty DRM companies?

1) thanks, but no more exact estimation? Five minutes? Ten?
2) strange, because it looks like I (and possibly Wishbone) have got "Temporarily locked" on a wrong code (which after a few minutes turned into "Invalid code", and then into "Temporarily locked" and all over again).

An... interesting theory. Or is that sarcasm? :)

or they just want to increase the pressence of PC gaming on their country... which would be weird as, unlike Japan, PC is powerful in Korea.

Oh, I know! Maybe they want their own Korean general discussion forum!

It's a bot, just look at the generated names. There have been different bots at work, the one that swamped TW2 created several threads a minute with the same username.

The currently working bot creates a new user every 1-2 minutes and makes one post in each target forum (currently NWN, BG and TW2), then it makes another user. That's why it's a lot slower than the thing from yesterday and the day before where it was posting faster than we could delete them.

As I said before - there seems to be some human interaction involved, since a few of the spam waves started with a single post containing only garbage (tttt) obviously for testing. That's why I don't get what the spammers are trying achieve here.

You mean the only Korean here wants his own General Discussion forum and creates nearly 600 user account for this?


And btw. the latest spam accounts claim to be from the UK.

Well, that is sarcasm! Or is it irony??

BTW, I wonder what this Bam War is? I knew that I should have learned the Korean language!

I've created a topic in each of the 3 currently spammed subforums for the people that don't look into General Discussion pointing them here.
I case French General Discussion is hit again, I would need some help from someone speaking French :-)