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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:57 pm
by Disembodied
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UNSONPYPE:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2931
still up and running (this one's a definite spambot).
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:38 pm
by Loxley
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:36 am
by Cmdr James
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
A variation on an old "favourite"...
And back again registered today
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2935
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:55 am
by Disembodied
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Also up for deletion:
black-kitten:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2933
Weird location, and the spamtastic two-words-and-a-comma "occupation" and "interests". Plus two hits already on SFS for the email address.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:17 am
by JazHaz
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:45 pm
by Cody
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Listing “admin” as occupation is more than enough for me
Don't like the look of this one:
WillieFox
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:15 pm
by Commander McLane
You're probably right. Four hits on SFS, and some more under other names from the same IP address.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:30 pm
by Loxley
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Member2
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2936
Could just be paranoia on my part. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:39 pm
by JensAyton
Probable, but with no evidence and no spumy links I’m not doing anything about it.
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:03 am
by Disembodied
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Member2:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php?mode ... ile&u=2936
After a bit of googling ("member2 profile") I'd say this was almost a certainty. There are a bunch of brand-new registrations for this name on a range of forums – "MMORPG Games", "Download 4 All", "SybianTalk.net", "ELT World Discussion" – and at least one
as-yet-undeleted spam posting (made 40 minutes ago) on the last one in that list for mobile phones.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:23 pm
by Cody
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:22 pm
by varsator
I see you have a lot of problems with bots here.
I don't know if the version of phpBB you are running allows this but I did something on another board that helped a lot with bots. I implemented a "custom profile field - number" that requested from the registering user the answer of a simple math question. Then marked the field as visible in the registration screen and also required. Finally, in the "Profile type specific options" I set the maximum and minimum values to the result of the math operation.
In this way, if the bots do not nail the result of the math operation exactly their registration is denied. You would be surprised of how many of the sophisticated bots do not know simple math.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:20 am
by allikat
varsator wrote:In this way, if the bots do not nail the result of the math operation exactly their registration is denied. You would be surprised of how many of the sophisticated bots do not know simple math.
In time, they will work around this, they just need to code a solver for the math, and a detection routine to spot it. They are already running a captcha breaker on some bots, simply by using faked websites to host captcha tests, and making the poor schmucks who end up there pass the tests to get scammed, and keeping a database of the answers online for the bots to search.
But it will certainly work for a while, which is all you really need. Just install it for now, and replace it with a new signup verification routine when the bots start penetrating it.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:56 pm
by another_commander
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JamesWilliams:
https://bb.oolite.space/profile.php? ... ile&u=2937
Email is flagged on SFS, multiple forum registrations today, suspected PM bot. Anyone receiving PMs from this account, please ignore and don't click on links.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:03 pm
by DaddyHoggy
But he's the manager of the StopSpam Organization....
