mods to delete spam.
- Kaebora
- Moderator
- Posts: 2444
- Joined: Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:51 pm
- Custom Title: Werehare In Disguise
- Gender: Male
- Mood: RAR!
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Contact:
I just started a Spam Reporting thread. It's in the Website Update section, but I think it may do better in the Forum Stuff section, seeing as how most of the spam seems to pop up in there, and that it does involve "Forum Stuff".
If you see spam, you can now notify every moderator with one post.
If you see spam, you can now notify every moderator with one post.
Lurking softly, reading your posts, loving your ideas...
-Kaebora
-Kaebora
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 7572
- Joined: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:17 pm
- Location: Zephyrhills, Florida
- Contact:
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 7572
- Joined: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:17 pm
- Location: Zephyrhills, Florida
- Contact:
- Kaebora
- Moderator
- Posts: 2444
- Joined: Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:51 pm
- Custom Title: Werehare In Disguise
- Gender: Male
- Mood: RAR!
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Contact:
I have a friend that owns a web hosting buisness, and is the admin of one of the other forums I am a member of. I'll ask him if he knows of any other ways to protect a forum from spybots automatically joining and posting. He's done a good job of correcting that problem in the past, somehow.
Lurking softly, reading your posts, loving your ideas...
-Kaebora
-Kaebora
- vrikasatma
- Legendary
- Posts: 2062
- Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:59 am
- Custom Title: Sometimes, ya just gotta say ... BLEEEE!!
- Gender: Female
- Additional Details: Digg: Gemfinder
Dragon Cave: http://dragcave.net/user/Xocowolf
Twitter: @Xocowolf - Mood: Busy
- Location: EugeneOR
- Contact:
We're getting a similar attack over on the E-Playa. The threat of a spambot is serious, a couple hackers from Brazil hit it with one on 9/11 of last year and sunk the whole board for a month. A couple months before that, we had one guy go through posting some nonsense with a picture of a cat and buried everyones' threads and posts.
It moved through the board, posting this humongous picture to three threads per minute until we were swimming in 50K smiling cat photos.
Now we got someone posting photos of Angelina Jolie's casabas. As soon as the mods get one bot, another takes its place.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to be seriously vigilant because once a hacker gets a forum on its radar, they're persistent as all get-out.
Hey, Goldie, can we add "spammers" to the Kiernn's hit-list?
[Mike Teavee voice] DEATH TO SPAMBOTS!!! DIE!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Oh, the E-Playa doesn't have the scrambled alphanumerics in its site registration form. I think this forum does. One vulnerability could be that the alphanumeric scrambler has a link that can speak the letters and numbers for you: that's to give blind people access to fora registrations. Don't know what it is because I never pushed it...maybe the spambots trigger an MP3 to get the code?
It moved through the board, posting this humongous picture to three threads per minute until we were swimming in 50K smiling cat photos.
Now we got someone posting photos of Angelina Jolie's casabas. As soon as the mods get one bot, another takes its place.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to be seriously vigilant because once a hacker gets a forum on its radar, they're persistent as all get-out.
Hey, Goldie, can we add "spammers" to the Kiernn's hit-list?
[Mike Teavee voice] DEATH TO SPAMBOTS!!! DIE!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Oh, the E-Playa doesn't have the scrambled alphanumerics in its site registration form. I think this forum does. One vulnerability could be that the alphanumeric scrambler has a link that can speak the letters and numbers for you: that's to give blind people access to fora registrations. Don't know what it is because I never pushed it...maybe the spambots trigger an MP3 to get the code?
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 7572
- Joined: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:17 pm
- Location: Zephyrhills, Florida
- Contact:
-
- Moderator
- Posts: 3203
- Joined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:07 pm
- Gender: Male
- Mood: Meh...
- Location: Where soul meets body
- Anubis
- Legendary
- Posts: 6429
- Joined: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:57 pm
- Custom Title: Eletist Jerk
- Gender: Male
- Location: Crossroads, ganking a hordie lowbie.
- Contact:
Same here i'am sick of this spam wave we got.
Banning the members & bots responsibe is not enough, we have to ban the IP adresses of these spammers. And somebody has to e-mail the phpBB about this spam wave on our peaceful forum.
((On a side note these are traps to fill you computer with spyware. So perverts beware!))
Banning the members & bots responsibe is not enough, we have to ban the IP adresses of these spammers. And somebody has to e-mail the phpBB about this spam wave on our peaceful forum.
((On a side note these are traps to fill you computer with spyware. So perverts beware!))
I have to agree with you there, there have been quite a few members that I was almost sure were bots, but I was completely wrong, thankfully.Silverclaw wrote:
Everytime I see a new person has posted, I'm wondering if their a spambot or not
"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere et cul illi pueri dicerent 'Sibylla Ti cupisne' respondebat illa 'Cupio mortere'."
-Satyricon
-Satyricon
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 7572
- Joined: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:17 pm
- Location: Zephyrhills, Florida
- Contact:
These spambots activity is appearing here alot more than before. I cant understand why, we arent that popular.
Well in any case us mods are doing the best we can to keep these spambots under control.
Well in any case us mods are doing the best we can to keep these spambots under control.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. - Thomas Jefferson
-
- Legendary
- Posts: 13085
- Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:27 am
- Custom Title: Executive Producer (Red Victoria)
- Gender: Male
- Location: Tejas
Anubis wrote:My mom (she runs a forum on her website) says that the phpBB software that runs this forum might need an update. So figarou or Anthony you might have to check on that.
Also see if you can get new members to validate their e-mails adresses, she says that is another way to keep these bots out.
This forum is using the latest update.
As for validating e-mail address, it's going to be a difficult task when I won't be online as much when I start my new job.
Figarou wrote:Anubis wrote:My mom (she runs a forum on her website) says that the phpBB software that runs this forum might need an update. So figarou or Anthony you might have to check on that.
Also see if you can get new members to validate their e-mails adresses, she says that is another way to keep these bots out.
This forum is using the latest update.
As for validating e-mail address, it's going to be a difficult task when I won't be online as much when I start my new job.
perhaps a call for more mods..