OT: SPAM

Re: OT: SPAM

sid — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:59:48 -0400

Oh even vBulletin has its limitations...
And I love to work with it too ;)

But don't blame it on Phorum.
I had to install a somewhat modified version of vbstopforumspam to get rid of the spammers.

And the same will surely be possible in phorum;
it even has a hook-system just like vBulletin,
not as easy to use as far as I can see from here, but still okay.

So as soon as someone made an add-on for phorum I guess it'll be much less spam around

'sid

Re: OT: SPAM

SCphotog — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:39:41 -0400

If the admins would switch to a better message board software we could easily work around the spam bots. I am part of the staff on a very large computer site and between 4 of us we curb the spam bots and spammers before they get past 3 post. There is no better solution than vbullitin.

Re: OT: SPAM

freds — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:26:58 -0400

I have also seen simple math problems like what is won plus too?

Re: OT: SPAM

Anonymous User — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:24:13 -0400

Why make it so complicated? I was able to secure several different, publicly accessible forms using this:

Type the text "[four random characters here]" in this field:

Really. No joking. Not even a single spambot was able to get around this in the years since - and thousands are being logged trying every day. Maybe it works thanks to the field names or maybe it's so "lame" that no spambot programmer bothered to implement support for cracking this, but whatever the reason, it does.

Re: OT: SPAM

sid — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:09:19 -0400

it is indeed,
but since there are new imagereading methods out for the "known spambot software" it's pretty easy to almost crack each and every captcha that you might be able to add to your site.

So the best way imho is to stop allowing guest posts (afaik a no-go procedure here) and banning the emails behind the bots.

Another way that'll stop most is an "answer the question" check prior posting.
something not too easy works best, like "What's the fourth word on Main-page" or something easier to remember like "what's the current Printerversions name?"

That way you force the botowner to at least search for the answer manually once.
And since most of those *cough* Spammers won't they leave us alone...

But first it has to be implemented of course ;)

'sid

Re: OT: SPAM

philwaud — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:01:46 -0400

it is very annoying!

Re: OT: SPAM

VDX — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:15:02 -0400

... Sebastian erased the first wave, but the worm seems to spread more every time ::o

I don't think it's so easy to track him down as some specifics were changed irregularly 'on the fly' ...

Viktor

OT: SPAM

DB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:10:50 -0400

Are the site admins going to do anything about the spam that has invaded the forums. I am getting about 20 spams to 1 legitimate message in my RSS feeds.