Bots registering

pp · Post by pp » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:57 pm

Hi Ralf,
I have noticed that more and more Bots are registering to the forum, if you look at the memberlist and you go to the last pages there are many users with

xxx@phentermineorder.boom.ru
xxx@nofeeporno.net
xxx@realholes.net

and so on. Maybe you need to load a little mod for the board!?

Patrick

Erl00 · Post by **Erl00** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:57 pm

Yeap, all these handles with a kind of first name plus a number seem more than suspect.

TerraFrost · Post by **TerraFrost** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:23 am

Better than installing a MOD: activating Visual Confirmation. It's an option in the ACP.

Ralph Herold · Post by **Ralph Herold** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:01 pm

I have enabled the email confirmation option. This should solve the problem.

pp · Post by pp » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:16 pm

But you should also disable the ones that are already registered. Sometimes they are posting in the board.

Patrick

Ralph Herold · Post by **Ralph Herold** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:33 pm

They have been purged. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

pp · Post by pp » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:43 am

Hi,

it seems to be that it's not working, there are again 2 new drug selling members ;D

Patrick

TerraFrost · Post by **TerraFrost** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:47 pm

And I'd be willing to wager that they haven't activated themselves.

I mean, let's be honest - the chief thing spammers such as this are interested in are inbound links (which increase ones visibility in search engines), and they don't need to activate their account to do that. They're listed in the memberlist by simply registering.

Pursuant to that, a better solution is the one I proposed - enable Visual Confirmation in the ACP. Alternatively known as CAPTCHAs, Visual Confirmation requires users who are registering recognize malformed english characters in an image and reproduce them in text. Here's an example:

If you're making a program to auto-register for boards (which is how most spammers such as this register), it's going to be rather difficult to bypass that. You'll have to either make it do OCR (which is a whole different ball game) or do that which is described here (and I doubt this board is visible enough to warrant this method).

Post by **dragsamou** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:25 am

Hi.
This is the last one

The newest registered user is incest-videos.

25 Sep 2005
Total posts: 0
[0.00% of total / 0.00 posts per day]
Find all posts by incest-videos
Location:
Website: http://incest-videos.web.gg/
Occupation:
Interests: incest videos, free incest videos, video, incest, incest videos, incest videos

Big Games Supply · Post by **Big Games Supply** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:37 pm

dragsamou wrote:Hi.
This is the last one
The newest registered user is incest-videos.

25 Sep 2005
Total posts: 0
[0.00% of total / 0.00 posts per day]
Find all posts by incest-videos
Location:
Website: http://incest-videos.web.gg/
Occupation:
Interests: incest videos, free incest videos, video, incest, incest videos, incest videos

And it wasn't even Good Porn!!!

Hey, are all of these kind of registrations done by bots? I suppose they just don't have time to do it manually, huh?

Ralph Herold · Post by **Ralph Herold** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:34 pm

I have activated visual confirmation and deleted the newly registered bots. The problem should be solved now.

TerraFrost: Thanks for the hint. The problem has been that visual confirmation is only available for certain templates and this template, by default, does not support this feature. I had to look for a solution, and fortunately, I found a possiblity to upgrade this template.

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