It is currently 28 Mar 2024 11:42




 Page 1 of 1 [ 9 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 13 Apr 2009 20:25 

Joined: 03 Feb 2009 16:15
Posts: 112
Hey.

As you certainly have noticed the spambots are quite active here on the board.

The phpbb3 3.0.4 captcha has been cracked which makes the life for spambots soo much simplier then normally.

Tho its not the case on all boards, I just had the very first spambot successfully registrating last night, tho it didnt succeed on posting anything (guessing it was a human spambot).

What captcha settings are you guys running?
(increase the visual difficulty)

Add some custom profile fields. (Atleast one thats required and make sure the one autopicked isnt allowed as answer).

Thats some basic stuff, visit http://www.phpbb.com for more information.


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 13 Apr 2009 20:25 

Joined: 13 Dec 2008 17:37
Posts: 357
I made a tutorial for this, but failed in doing so. ;)


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 13 Apr 2009 21:06 
SSDi One Man Army
User avatar

Joined: 13 Dec 2008 21:11
Posts: 1434
Location: Cognac, FR
to me best way to avoid this kind of spam is to make profile's validation by admin so you can check who want's to connect and see if the mail adress is fake



_________________
Image
Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 13 Apr 2009 21:18 

Joined: 03 Feb 2009 16:15
Posts: 112
towelie {l Wrote}:
to me best way to avoid this kind of spam is to make profile's validation by admin so you can check who want's to connect and see if the mail adress is fake


That works on small forums, and/or on forums with really really active site admins cause otherwise its just a really annoying thing for the users having to wait for some admin to activate their accounts (dunno if equal to spambot-annoying but once there u wont have any spambot-annoying to compare with.)


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 18 Apr 2009 17:14 

Joined: 01 Jan 2009 17:34
Posts: 84
Not that Jason will finally listen, but here it is again:
BLOCK THE ASIAN IP RANGE.

It's the ONLY solution. Captchas in general have been cracked, and will never offer more then a day of protection. Rearranging input fields is no use either cause of intelligent crawlers.


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 18 Apr 2009 19:16 
SSDi God
User avatar

Joined: 13 Dec 2008 16:32
Posts: 4370
I did listen to you Ian!

I asked you what the IP range was for Asia?!
But then you weren't around to see that either!

Jees!,...............

SK



_________________
Image

Clanpay link below
http://www.gameservers.com/clanpay/?clanid=b5701433fa91d58374b576769ae6d3ca
Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 18 Apr 2009 20:32 

Joined: 01 Jan 2009 17:34
Posts: 84
Serialkiller {l Wrote}:
I did listen to you Ian!

I asked you what the IP range was for Asia?!
But then you weren't around to see that either!

Jees!,...............

SK


Woops me and my big mouth :D
Can never see the shoutbox history on here :(
While searching for IP{ ranges I found summin more interesting:
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.p ... topic=7802


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 19 Apr 2009 09:05 

Joined: 03 Feb 2009 16:15
Posts: 112
well I guess blocking the Asian ip range works for ssdi/bnw and such since they are pretty much just european, the game Im running on the other hand got with its currently really small playerbase players from 39 countries (based on just last month google analytics)


Offline
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: To solve the spambots situation
PostPosted: 19 Apr 2009 09:42 
SSDi God
User avatar

Joined: 13 Dec 2008 16:32
Posts: 4370
I have been blocking entire ranges of the spammers to the board.

................ lol, damn seems I have a msql error there now!

SK



_________________
Image

Clanpay link below
http://www.gameservers.com/clanpay/?clanid=b5701433fa91d58374b576769ae6d3ca
Offline
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
 Page 1 of 1 [ 9 posts ] 


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: