Bots registering
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Bots registering
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
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
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- Legendary Creature For Hire
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- Ralph Herold
- Legendary Magic Library Administrator
- Posts: 574
- Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:00 am
- Location: Germany
- Ralph Herold
- Legendary Magic Library Administrator
- Posts: 574
- Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:00 am
- Location: Germany
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- Legendary Creature For Hire
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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).
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).
Hi.
This is the last one
The newest registered user is incest-videos.
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This is the last one
The newest registered user is incest-videos.
25 Sep 2005
Total posts: 0
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Find all posts by incest-videos
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Website: http://incest-videos.web.gg/
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Interests: incest videos, free incest videos, video, incest, incest videos, incest videos
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And it wasn't even Good Porn!!!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/
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Interests: incest videos, free incest videos, video, incest, incest videos, incest videos
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
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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.
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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