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Star Way wrote:(Unless, of course, you are indeed interested in purchasing Viagra... inwhich case, I would ask that you do that via other means, please, and without telling us, because I don't think anyone wants to know. ;)
Tekirai wrote:It's a 'robot' that spams email, forums, guestbooks, IMs and all that jazz. You may have seen people who display their email (I think Star Way's done it on the contacts page) like this: ilikemuffins[AT]meowmix.boom. Or even tekirules@w00t[DOT]com. Some sites like FF.net even put your email address in an image for you. Spam-bots can take in emails that don't change like that and email the spam to them. That should be about right.
Tekirai wrote:Star Way wrote:(Unless, of course, you are indeed interested in purchasing Viagra... inwhich case, I would ask that you do that via other means, please, and without telling us, because I don't think anyone wants to know.
Wouldn't it be a riot if someone did, though? xDD Ahh, sorry. I'm being mean. Somehow.
Dairall wrote:phpBB has a guide to passing bots, I'll look for all thr important and quick deteil.
1. Set activation to 'user' or 'admin'
This means to prevent fake email adresses.
2. Enable visual confirmation
3. Using mods.
These are home made mods blocking spam, .ect
Block Open Proxy Registrants by TerraFrost
Blocks those attempting to register from open proxies. xgmx can come back through this.
Disable spambots Registrants by TerraFrost
Blocks those attempting to register from open proxies. xgmx can come back through this.
The humanizer by Underhill
Adds the question 'Are you human?' to the registration form which must be answered for the registration to be processed. Since this isn't a standard phpBB question, most bots will not answer it.
One last thing for Erynn, I know you have alot of "no posters" no the user list, so this one, seems very helful.
Admin Toolkit - Allows you to mass delete users. Users should never be deleted straight from the users table.
Source: phpbb.com
AngelBolt wrote:The first spambot's post
The first Spambot
It would appear we have in fact been hit...
Lani wrote:Eh, in the end, people (real or cartoon) are naked and having a good time. What's wrong with that?
Tekirai wrote:It's a 'robot' that spams email, forums, guestbooks, IMs and all that jazz. You may have seen people who display their email (I think Star Way's done it on the contacts page) like this: ilikemuffins[AT]meowmix.boom. Or even tekirules@w00t[DOT]com. Some sites like FF.net even put your email address in an image for you. Spam-bots can take in emails that don't change like that and email the spam to them. That should be about right.Star Way wrote:(Unless, of course, you are indeed interested in purchasing Viagra... inwhich case, I would ask that you do that via other means, please, and without telling us, because I don't think anyone wants to know.
Wouldn't it be a riot if someone did, though? xDD Ahh, sorry. I'm being mean. Somehow.
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echo "Jesus pwns!";
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Thanks so much for your patience and cooperation. I know it sucks, but we just gotta deal with it I'm afraid.
Erynn
while($_SERVER[PHP_SELF])
{
echo "Jesus pwns!";
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M3H 1S T3H N3Wb H4X0r wrote: I found many mods for spambots though :O
Virtualized STI wrote:I also notice that spambots joining the forums usually designate a first letter with last full name...for example JRodriguez or something...I have noticed that the most.
Star Way wrote:Hello all- this isn't a real update, just an announcement regarding the spam robots that have been popping up on the forum as of late.
It seems that this problem is attributed to the current version of phpBB. Apparently somehow there's a vulnerability which allows spam bots to bypass the e-mail registration and begin posting. Other forums are also having this issue, and phpBB is aware of the problem and I believe that they're working on it.
In the mean time, I know it's annoying, but there's not a whole lot we can do about it (besides changing the registration type to admin, inwhich case I'd have to approve every single person who joins here, and that would be *such* a pain in the eye.)
It would be nice if everyone would try to ignore the bots. When they post, instead of making a reply, either ignore it, or notify a mod. One way or another someone will take care of it, but there's no point in paying any attention to their useless ramblings, wouldn't you say? (Unless, of course, you are indeed interested in purchasing Viagra... inwhich case, I would ask that you do that via other means, please, and without telling us, because I don't think anyone wants to know. )
Thanks so much for your patience and cooperation. I know it sucks, but we just gotta deal with it I'm afraid.
Erynn
while($_SERVER[PHP_SELF])
{
echo "Jesus pwns!";
}
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