Quite Simply off the bat, the best thing to do is to not respond to any of it, since most of it is left by spambots who usually don't understand English anyway. Virtually all of it *does* look as if it were composed by a real person; but these bots disguise themselves more cleverly as time goes on.
As I understand it, now, there's a way for moderators or admins to change the way guest users can be accepted here. Is this feasible to do yet? We should do something at this point coz I received an urgent request to have the smut-bots zapped forever in deference to his child. I'd really like to do something myself; but I'm not sure of a way how.
I can only send a distress e-mail; but that's all for now...unfortunately.
We've been keeping an eye on it and, unfortunately, it's a continuous battle. We make an upgrade to the board, the spambots make an upgrade, etc. Since we'd rather be working on our products than fighting spambots, until it gets out of hand, this couple of spams a day is tolerable.
We need all the help we can get. There've been times when I've had to get rid of six spamposts in a row...and in some cases, no sooner do I get rid of one than *another* shows up.
Just e-mail your request to Andy O' and he'll put you on.
JayPro wrote:We need all the help we can get. There've been times when I've had to get rid of six spamposts in a row...and in some cases, no sooner do I get rid of one than *another* shows up.
Just e-mail your request to Andy O' and he'll put you on.
A way that some boards deal with the bots it to require a text entry field be filled in manually before posting. Typically its a difficult to read, scrambled group of letters and numbers, that prove a real human being is about to post something. Of course this doesn't rule out the real human being spammers.
I've seen it before; mostly with Yahoo group things. Can it work with this MB setup?
We'd really hate to have legitimate users have to enter a random character string every time they want to post a message. Woud you post the same number of messages if you had to do that every time?
Just block the domain that the spams are coming from.
Unfortunately, the spammers learned about this a few years ago and use a botnet, therefore spamming from a huge network of servers, so this is not feasible.
We're exploring other phpBB mods. It just sucks spending time on this versus legitimate SoundSpectrum development.
I've seen it before; mostly with Yahoo group things. Can it work with this MB setup?
We'd really hate to have legitimate users have to enter a random character string every time they want to post a message. Woud you post the same number of messages if you had to do that every time?
Just block the domain that the spams are coming from.
Unfortunately, the spammers learned about this a few years ago and use a botnet, therefore spamming from a huge network of servers, so this is not feasible.
We're exploring other phpBB mods. It just sucks spending time on this versus legitimate SoundSpectrum development.
guys just give me access to the delete button and I will be on the spam before anyone knows it.
I am online all the time and I check the forums I am involved with often about every 4 to 6 hours so im always around.
if you let me help out you wont have to waste your time on this issue.
We'd really hate to have legitimate users have to enter a random character string every time they want to post a message. Woud you post the same number of messages if you had to do that every time?
I have been without power for 3 days,(back on today) so I could not keep the spam in check as much. But after I recover from the 3 day outage, as long as the power stays on., spam will be removed, hopefully.
I think you have to be an administrator to ban an account. I don't have the power. I am glad we got more help, because not everyone can monitor this board 24-7.
I do belong to 2 other forums that I can access the ban control, but the "bosses" want me to check with them first.
markofkane wrote:I think you have to be an administrator to ban an account. I don't have the power. I am glad we got more help, because not everyone can monitor this board 24-7.
I do belong to 2 other forums that I can access the ban control, but the "bosses" want me to check with them first.
Unfortuanetely, phpBB is one of the most popular free forum apps out there, so - it goes hand-in-hand with being the most popular for bots to be coded for...
The thread will give you a lot of good ideas for preventing spam. But, you'll need access to the soundspectrum webroot to add mods and such to thwart this kind of crap...
There are a couple easy ones you can add that'll prevent the majority of spam posts, but you'll still see all those bot new user accounts created (but most will never get all the way to actually successfully posting a thread...
Virtually all of it *does* look as if it were composed by a real person; but these bots disguise themselves more cleverly as time goes on.
