I have not noticed any posts yet but alot of the recent members have names that are made up or follow certain patterns and their profiles are obviously fake and locations are highly suspect.
Is someone trying to bog down the site????
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I have not noticed any posts yet but alot of the recent members have names that are made up or follow certain patterns and their profiles are obviously fake and locations are highly suspect.
Is someone trying to bog down the site????
I do see some difficult names appearing, but if you look at the member list at the bottom, they all appear to be legitimate.Quote:
Originally Posted by ptrowski
Really? A lot of the occupations are listed as "Man" and the locations are highly suspect.
Yesterday they were following a 4 letter and 4 number convention, today they are different. I even saw a signature as "free cigarettes, click here".
No biggie, just a heads up to the admins.
It's possible. We're a target for a lot of attacks given our affiliation with HostGator (1.8 million websites means even a 1% rate of unhappy users is a 18K people out to get us).
If any posts come up, we'll take care of them.
Very true! Just thought you might want to know as it seemed very suspect.
member pages are a popular way to spam. At the height on a forum I admin for we had about 15 a day coming in. Larger forums get many more. Mainly Bots designed for that purpose. All you can do is delete them as they appear and hope for a forum upgrade that closes any holes they use...
Spam -- A never ending battle.
Sometimes 'captcha'/etc filters within the registration process can help a bit (if the bot registration attempt is completely automated).
Somewhat on topic: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...of-all-e-mail/
You know, I've wondered about this for some time. The usernames don't follow normal conventions - a lot are cryptic combinations and most users don't choose usernames like that.
That's what I was thinking. The locations are all over the world and their occupation etc is "Man".
Just added reCAPTCHA image/word verification to the signup process, so this should alleviate the barrage of suspect registrations.
The reCAPTCHA project/idea is actually pretty neat, you can read about it here:
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
That is actually pretty cool. Thanks for the link!
It also looks like the bulk of the bot/spam registrations came from just a handfull of (now banned) IP Addresses:
Example Username ---- IP Address
xfchbgfv ---- 218.106.90.38
vizirisuz ---- 79.120.55.82
BHhdNMGFb ---- 194.8.75.64
hdxbk666276 ---- 221.194.37.5
klmn254 ---- 60.168.93.12
JWLpWQUPV ---- 194.8.74.130
hdxbk666276 ---- 119.27.163.155
Nice! I guess my bill will be in the mail to you guys.
I wish all of ours were that easy. My latest... AnnaBeasonQuote:
Originally Posted by VOIPoJustin
Looks legit till you google her IP addy and finds she has been spamming the world... Another day in paradise...
Looks like there were some more in the last few days. Man it is never ending!
Always a battle.
Did you stop using CAPTCHA?
Nope, still enabled. Could be a case of the following (becoming more popular):
1. Bots find the forum.
2. Humans register.
3. Bot updates/account spams.
EVERYONE please welcome our latest member:
BlorryBrooxia
:rolleyes:
I am going to go out on a limb and say that this might be spam...
You've located my dear, dear long lost Aunt Blorry!:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Vumes
Quote:
Originally Posted by NY Tel Guy
Couz ??!! :p