SPAM

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:32 am

Anyone else noticed the large amount of spam that's percolating the forum today and yesterday??

Anyone know how to stop it

warui · Post by **warui** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:00 am

I'm afraid that the moderator with "delete on sight" is the only way

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:01 am

I think this the same kind of spam that blogs tend to get, I've never seen it like that on a forum. I think it is probably a user who thinks they are funny. Best way is an IP ban.

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:20 am

Nope IP ban is often not a good way because there are many Dial Up providers (at least in germany) where you get everytim you connect to the Inet a new IP

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:41 am

I've heard of some spam posts into this forum, but I did not see any. Did Saigumi already delete them?

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:46 am

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... .php?t=782
the post by zumba for example

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:46 am

There is also a ban that gets the provider and gets your IP address every time you login to ban you. I did it to myself on a forum a couple of years ago to see how it worked. It is very efficient

Niko, the guy goes by the name of zumba ( he is a guest ), keeps talking about football in a random way. Hey, I like to talk about footie and Euro 2004 but the posts are in such random places that leads me to think it is probably a bot. On Robo's post about FAQ's is one place.

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:06 pm

This is the first one that I've seen.

I removed it.

I used to get ton of these on my Saigumi.net blog. The spammers set up a quick way to blast crud into Moveable Type. Seems they haven't started an anti-Pivot campaign yet.

I noticed yesterday that they are targetting the logs on eve-corp, also.

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:12 pm

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 5516#15516 is another one and:

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 5541#15541

At least it isn't Penis Enlargement pill adverts like some places get

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:20 pm

Yep, those are the ones I got all the time. I bought so many that my wife now calls me "redwood".

I've removed the bunch of 'em. Found 8 today, which means in about.... now.... there will be more.

There should be some quick recommendations out there on how to modify a phpbb to block most automated posting. One of the solutions I found for MT was to change the name of your files.

warui · Post by **warui** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:52 pm

And how about letting posting only for registered users ?

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 5:26 pm

Interesting.
About letting only registered users post into this forum: A good idea. But I don't know if this would help, I've heard that these automatic spam programs are capable of creating users for them too. But I don't know if this is really true. Another thing is that I don't want to force people to have to register themselfes to be able to post questions quickly into the forums. For example I personally don't post into forums where I have to register first, because I am simply too lazy.
But it would be an option. Is there a lot of spam already? If not, maybe it will get heavier soon. What do you think?

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:09 pm

I never post in forums that I can't post as a guest in either, it annoys the hell outta me. I'll register if I hang around for a while and I think it's interesting but I don't want to be registered to about 50 forums ( at the mo I am already registered in quite a few )

This is the first instance of spam I have seen on the forums. Google registers a bot sometimes to scan all the pages if it can't get access to them, so I wouldn't bet against spam bots doing it as well.

Since this is in off topic, it makes me laugh when I see how widely used the word spam is now. How many of you actually know where it came from?

warui · Post by **warui** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:41 am

@Nico
Then it would be easy to delete all the spam. Just delete all the posts by spaming user. But yes, i agree that it could be annoying for some people to force them to register.

@Tyn
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Cormac.OBrien/spam.html

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:03 am

Should have known google was only a click away

I did know, I just wondered if everyone else did.