Removing those spambots

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:37 am

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't post? Prehaps something should be done to disallow profiles in occupation and interests with characters such as à,í,ò,î,ð,è,ñ since all of their profiles contain them. Then they wouldn't be able to make their damn accounts would they?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:59 am

And what about people from countries where these are valid letters? That should be done smarter than that!

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:00 am

Got any other bright ideas?

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:19 am

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/catdb.php?cat=57

Post by **Kirby** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:39 am

This one looks good:

MOD Name: disable spambots
Author: magenta
MOD Description: This mod uses cryptographic signing techniques to ensure that any comment submissions have occurred from an appropriate
comment form (stopping simple random-submission bots), that
the form was actually generated for the user who is submitting (stopping clusters of page-scraping spiders), and that at least 5 seconds have passed between the form generation and the submission (stopping bots which fully scrape the page and then immediately submit). If one of these conditions is not met, the submit operation is turned into a preview, giving human posters another chance to submit.

Since implementing this mod, my forum has only gotten two spams posted to it, and both were manually posted by a human. Countless thousands of spams were blocked.

For added security, you should change the "nana" and "foofoo" text inserted in the first "BEFORE, ADD" step so that spambots can't simply spoof the form values as well.

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:17 pm

Tough -- shoud still not be allowed -- naybe the forum should be English only!

HobbsTiger1 · Post by **HobbsTiger1** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:10 pm

No. Typing in other languages should be allowed. I won't get in to the debate here. Find another way.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:14 pm

HobbsTiger1 wrote:No. Typing in other languages should be allowed. I won't get in to the debate here. Find another way.

Indeed!

Ninja_of_DooM · Post by **Ninja_of_DooM** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:27 pm

Graf Zahl wrote:And what about people from countries where these are valid letters? That should be done smarter than that!

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:29 pm

He's saying ALLOW it.

Talonos · Post by **Talonos** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 5:46 pm

Erm... What's a spambot? Are they causing problems?

DomRem · Post by **DomRem** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:42 pm

Oh, they're just automated bots which go around forums spamming advertisements all over the place. Strangely enough, all we get are Russian spambots, and at one point we had three spam threads at the same time. I think this has been fixed, not only because of the thread's green color but because none have shown up recently.

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:20 pm

All the topics have to do with Russain mail-order brides.

Post by **Kirby** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:40 pm

And some Russian Bed&Breakfast located in some mountain range

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:35 am

I think they're here to stay

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=6689