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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.

Jesus Christ, these spams are starting to come by more often than before.

Shadow Wulf wrote:Jesus Christ, these spams are starting to come by more often than before.

WTF is your spam blocker turned off?? is because of the "new site"

No I mean spambots, I never seen so many spambots appearing in this forum so fast.

Shadow Wulf wrote:No I mean spambots, I never seen so many spambots appearing in this forum so fast.

thats what im talkin about isnt there a program on here to automatically block them from even reaching the forums..

If not there should be

We do really need some extra defence here

Fang wrote:We do really need some extra defence here

We need a firewall or something...

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.

why dont they add that little distorted picture with letters and numbers under the login info? it works for other sites becasue if the letters are not plain text and have lines and stuff around it spambots cant read it and cant log in

Lukas wrote:why dont they add that little distorted picture with letters and numbers under the login info? it works for other sites becasue if the letters are not plain text and have lines and stuff around it spambots cant read it and cant log in

its alredy there isnt it? it was for me i think

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?

Wow, no spambots all day? Thats a change.

WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has this past month just been goddamn INSANE for those damn asshole porn spambots??

I mean seriously WTF?!?!?!?!

A plague of spambots is here!

Never seen so many pop up so often in all the time I've been here

Everytime I see a new person has posted, I'm wondering if their a spambot or not

I'm surprised about all these spam messages that have appeared in the forum. I'm getting quite sick of them. I'm glad we have a thread to report these nuisances and the mods are doing a great job in getting rid of them as well.

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!))

Silverclaw wrote:

Everytime I see a new person has posted, I'm wondering if their a spambot or not

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.

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.

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.

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..

I personally believe that we should lock down from any new members, just untill we get a handle on these damn spammers!!! I think we have to go there, because i' am sick and tired seeing threads advertising porn.

....closing the border are we Anubis?

There is no need for such an extreme discision. Isolationism is not the answer.

i'm not saying permately just untill we figure this out.

(( any way can i be a mod?))