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Checking Out
- Thread starter OC for ME
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Primus
Regular Member
Nunya is doing it.
Index finger of the right hand is being used. As to who? - the person tasked. (That tasked man left this-here silver bullet.
)stay safe.
Sir Diealotz
Regular Member
Right???? They look fairly warm and so fashionable LOL
JohnC76
Regular Member
I run phpBB and Invision Power forums.
The most effective anti-spam measure on my phpBB forum is PeopleSign image captcha.
The ip.board has all the anti-spam stuff built in and it is very effective. I just keep the forum up to date and no spam issues.
The only spammers that get in are the occasional human spammer, but they don't do as much damage as a bot because they're human and slower. Human spammers tend to make a post or two and they're gone. They don't stick around all day making tons of posts.
That said, I bet your captcha on registration has been cracked by the bots.
The most effective anti-spam measure on my phpBB forum is PeopleSign image captcha.
The ip.board has all the anti-spam stuff built in and it is very effective. I just keep the forum up to date and no spam issues.
The only spammers that get in are the occasional human spammer, but they don't do as much damage as a bot because they're human and slower. Human spammers tend to make a post or two and they're gone. They don't stick around all day making tons of posts.
That said, I bet your captcha on registration has been cracked by the bots.
JohnC76
Regular Member
I just looked and I don't think PeopleSign has anything for vBulletin.
Check and make sure this board is up to date and if the problem continues, first thing I'd do is get a new registration captcha, preferably image captcha and even add a Q&A to it.
Then, make posts limited to maybe 1 per 2 or 3 minutes to slow the bots down until you can perma ban them all.
That's a start....
Check and make sure this board is up to date and if the problem continues, first thing I'd do is get a new registration captcha, preferably image captcha and even add a Q&A to it.
Then, make posts limited to maybe 1 per 2 or 3 minutes to slow the bots down until you can perma ban them all.
That's a start....
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since9
Campaign Veteran
Put a sock in in, skid. I've "only" been doing this for 28 years. I've offered to help, not only recently, but also in the past. Reminds me of the knucklehead in Predator who gets his chest caved in, seconds from death, yet keeps chanting, "I can make it... I can make it!"
Yeah, right. Sure...
Oooh! All that WORK!!!
Done right (automatically), the fix takes about an hour, most of that just downloading and installing the right plug-in. Done wrong (manually), it's a whole lot of work. Might take days.
The fact they did in manually tells me they're still trying to bail instead of doing what they should have done, which is plug the hole.
Just out of curiosity, skidmark, how many eBBS and message forum software packages have you installed, configured, mod'd, and admin'd?
I'm on my ninth.
since9
Campaign Veteran
It is indeed.
Sadly, they've scripted the posts. Humans are needed only to get past the captcha. Even the e-mail confirmation is scripted.
Or humans. Again, all this is run in a shell, which does 99% of th work. You don't have sweatshops with a human trying to hack their way in to each and ever message forum. All they see is what the shell delivers, which is the Captcha. The only thing the humans do is type what they see, hit Enter, and repeat. They can easily crank out 300 an hour. Armed with the responses, the shells (scripts) do all the grunt work of creating accounts, confirming the e-mail, etc.
Deleting the spammers, is a BAD move. You want to ban them, not delete them.
JohnC76
Regular Member
I had big problems with spam-bots on my phpBB forums and I was told on the support boards that some of the captcha had been cracked, whatever that means.
Once I uploaded the PeopleSign, it basically ended the spam-bot issues.
So you could try a new captcha, or just add a Q&A like:
Which amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms?
Possible answers:
2nd
Second
Second amendment
2nd amendment
2A
I bet that would end spam-not registrations.
Last way is to do admin registration approval so you can look up IP, email, and profile details before confirming, but that's a lot of time and work.
If the IP comes back to China, India, Russia and a few others, you can bet it's a spam reg.
Once I uploaded the PeopleSign, it basically ended the spam-bot issues.
So you could try a new captcha, or just add a Q&A like:
Which amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms?
Possible answers:
2nd
Second
Second amendment
2nd amendment
2A
I bet that would end spam-not registrations.
Last way is to do admin registration approval so you can look up IP, email, and profile details before confirming, but that's a lot of time and work.
If the IP comes back to China, India, Russia and a few others, you can bet it's a spam reg.
BB62
Accomplished Advocate
For those who are posting their suggestions to this thread: unless it's clear that your suggestion has been read by the moderator or a site owner (for instance, by John or Grapeshot either PMing you or posting on this thread), PM either of the two previously named individuals.
OC for ME
Regular Member
OCDO is being targeted, by the Bulgarians and Hungarians, on this day.
Redbaron007
Regular Member
^^^^
Yep....I wonder if they are gun friendly....
Yep....I wonder if they are gun friendly....
since9
Campaign Veteran
While it's nice to see you sharing your concerns and thoughtful guidance, your comment erroneously assumes that such actions were never taken.
OC for ME
Regular Member
I guess I didn't check out as much as I thought I would...just can't help myself. Hardy well done to the owners and staff.
See brief report just belowI guess I didn't check out as much as I thought I would...just can't help myself. Hardy well done to the owners and staff.
[h=3]Spam-O-Matic Statistics[/h] 1054 Spammers Denied Registration
3 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated
BB62
Accomplished Advocate
I made no such assumption.