Oh the spammers...

Post by **Hermskii** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:03 am

I am getting about 10 new fake account by spammers a day. I may have to go to extra lengths to stop them which will end up in me breaking the forum I'm sure.

It used to be just a couple a month. Now 10 a day. This sucks! I'll let you know once I have got it worked out. Please point out the spammers as you see them and I'll nuke them quick. To date though, I have still only had about 5 that actually were able to login and post. Later.

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:29 am

Should have a way to confirm who is legit when they register on here before they are allowed to post. Have you looked at upgrading the board too? I think they got some new features about to come up that will help this out also.

Post by **Hermskii** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:11 pm

The board is at the latest version now. There is still more I can do. They do have to go through 3 steps now to register and post but it is actually easy to script the process so advertisers have and we suffer.

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:25 pm

Not working to great since 2 more got in today. Should check out version 3 of PHPBB coming out very soon!

Post by **Hermskii** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:29 pm

Will do. Thanks!

MEAT · Post by **MEAT** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:42 pm

Rats.....I didn't get the address for that last spam about Erectile Dysfunction Medication.

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:07 pm

Just a reminder (since I don't see anything new here yet), they got the newest release out recently: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 4&t=543015

Post by **Hermskii** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:03 pm

I had not noticed yet but I would have noticed tomorrow when I would have gone in to clean house again. Thanks again though. Later!

Post by **Hermskii** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:07 pm

It isn't a official release. It is a release canidate. I don't do beta if I can help it. I'll wait for final official release but still........thanks.

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:48 am

No problem, just wasn't aware it didn't get tagged yet as 'official'. I guess they need to see it working fine for a while overall to see if any bugs might have been missed, etc. If none are reported though, then it'll be stable enough.

P.S.- Found out also that a few add-on mods are yet to be completed too.

K · Post by K » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:42 am

You just need to get one of those boxes with the wavy text going on the register screen. Bots cannot get past them because they are usually images instead of text that can be read. The user has to be human to read it and input it into a form to finalize the registration process. As far as I know they work against bots.

Post by **Hermskii** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:58 pm

Actually, I'm using that box you mention. Even it has bots that can read the text. I even have it set to make them reply to the official registration email and the bot answers. There is more I can do but I'm waiting for a superior fix actually. Thanks though everyone. I usually nuke the bots in a day or two. Just ignore them but learn to see when they are bots too. Later!

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:08 pm

There's some more ways that may be helpful also, just not sure if you seen it said over here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 1&t=427852

This mod is also mentioned, although you might have it already? http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=1387

YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED!

Scify · Post by **Scify** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:03 pm

Thank you Herm remove the spam

Thank u all hard work you do

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