catvet 0 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 (edited) By requiring a new registrant to type in a random set of letters and numbers during the registration process, these spam bots can't get in to the site and bother us with these stupid posts. I also get email notifying me I have a PM from someone when they get in. I suspect if one opens the message, spyware gets on your computer. I cleaned mine up last night after the first incident with the porn site. I could be wrong about this, but if the administrators could look into added security against bots, it might help. Edited April 9, 2009 by catvet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Juggernaut 11,054 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 By requiring a new registrant to type in a random set of letters and numbers during the registration process, these spam bots can't get in to the site and bother us with these stupid posts. I also get email notifying me I have a PM from someone when they get in. I suspect if one opens the message, spyware gets on your computer. I cleaned mine up last night after the first incident with the porn site. I could be wrong about this, but if the administrators could look into added security against bots, it might help. We have been working on it since yesterday... Sorry for any inconvenience... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catvet 0 Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 By requiring a new registrant to type in a random set of letters and numbers during the registration process, these spam bots can't get in to the site and bother us with these stupid posts. I also get email notifying me I have a PM from someone when they get in. I suspect if one opens the message, spyware gets on your computer. I cleaned mine up last night after the first incident with the porn site. I could be wrong about this, but if the administrators could look into added security against bots, it might help. We have been working on it since yesterday... Sorry for any inconvenience... No inconvenience. I should have known you were on top of it. I'm just an idiot trying to help. Computer hackers kind of scare me. Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nalioth 405 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Bots can fill out captchas better than most humans can. The traditional captcha is pretty much useless nowadays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra 76 two 2,677 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I was contacted by another member who is an admin on a drag racing forum. He had the same damn bot do the same thing on his forum before he logged in here and saw the same thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vbrtrmn 167 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Bots can fill out captchas better than most humans can. The traditional captcha is pretty much useless nowadays. 100% true! Most captcha methods have already been compromised by bots. The best ones out there are probably: recaptcha http://recaptcha.net/ mallom http://mollom.com/ Both of those have very high accuracy rates and change their messages frequently, so that spam bots can't keep up with the words. I'm not sure which if either will work with IP.Board, though. Juggernaut, I'm a developer by trade if you want to discuss anything, I'd be happy to have a dialog with you via PM or email. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tactical Ninja 0 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 We really just need to start doing nasty things to spammers' urethrae when caught. "I'm gonna go Edward II on yo' ass!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bvamp 604 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I would have to assume that its programmed to use the active user list to PM people, as I havent recieved any spam. ban the entire host. There was a site admin website out there, part of which had a "trouble" IP list and compromised host list on it. Maybe go find those lists, and head them off at the pass instead of doing the "lets wait for him to come back with a new name or IP" technique. Im still waiting for someone with some skill to come here and cause a problem. A true phreaker would cause some serious damage, thats for sure, nothing like this carder annoyance you guys are getting. As this site continues to get bigger, you are bound to see more of this, and more serious fraud attempts. Max uses corporate strength passwords for the serious access to this site, so I highly doubt that there will be anything catastrophic that happens in the future. Like all email and PMs and links and attachments, DO NOT click on the stuff if you dont know what it is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nalioth 405 Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Juggernaut, I'm a developer by trade if you want to discuss anything, I'd be happy to have a dialog with you via PM or email.You need to talk to MakC. Juggs is great at what he does, but he doens't have access to the core software. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MD_Willington 11 Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 FYI: I know everyone gets mad at "the spammer" but they tend to be bots... They caused us all manner of horseshit on the AMD forum when we used Vbulletin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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