I made a tutorial for this, but failed in doing so.
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| Author: | Holm [ 13 Apr 2009 20:25 ] |
| Post subject: | To solve the spambots situation |
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. |
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| Author: | AnthoAsho [ 13 Apr 2009 20:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
I made a tutorial for this, but failed in doing so.
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| Author: | towelie [ 13 Apr 2009 21:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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 |
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| Author: | Holm [ 13 Apr 2009 21:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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.) |
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| Author: | Black Haze [ 18 Apr 2009 17:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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. |
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| Author: | Serialkiller [ 18 Apr 2009 19:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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 |
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| Author: | Black Haze [ 18 Apr 2009 20:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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  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 |
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| Author: | Holm [ 19 Apr 2009 09:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
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) |
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| Author: | Serialkiller [ 19 Apr 2009 09:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: To solve the spambots situation |
I have been blocking entire ranges of the spammers to the board. ................ lol, damn seems I have a msql error there now! SK |
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