I had phpbb3 version 3.02 and had tons of sex, even kiddie porn ads popping up in 'virus removal' by 5-15 new phony users. The scripters used an injection in the UNION of my MySQL. It was easy for them, so I upgraded to 3.06 and followed the very long copy and replacement steps.
I then got spammed again with similar stuff but much less. So, you go into your administrator area as you have set it up when you installed phpbb3 and delete each user, remembering to block their IP not the email, as the IP is where they hit from with bots multiple times.
I then looked up MODS for phpbb3 that help stop bots and spoofs on your phpbb3 forum. I'll have to look them up making sure they aren't just trojans letting even more in to the forums but they look very hopeful to stop this perverse onslaught of automated bullshit from hitting my forum where the posts are made to help people, not spread sick crap.
phpbb3 spam protection step #1
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