weluvtoys Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Why all of a sudden the influx of Spam in the Forums....?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulfstream Greg Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 It was a result of whats called "spam-bot (automated script) registrations". The low life of the world have noting better to do than try every way they can to break into web sites and wreck havoc. Hopefully I have fixed the problem with the just released software update to fix the problem. For more information see the latest news article http://www.toyotamotorhome.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=1512 Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajadulce Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 ...... no the PINK is gone? j/k. The blue is nice too! I run an IP.Board forum as well and was struggling with those damn bots, even with captcha enabled. The final solution was to add a custom profile field that has stumped those bots for 2 years now! Basically the bots can only enter what they "see" not what they "read". It works so well, that I have actually removed the captcha. Some of those letters are just so hard to read anyways. The field is something basic like enter the numbers <six-five-seven> just the numbers no spaces: users input 657 Or something similar where the numbers are written. For our boards we came up with this: Ok just something to try if they still manage to get past the new captcha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajadulce Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Not sure if you got my pm, but it appears that you have some bots that managed to wiggle in before your new software/recaptcha. You have to ban or better yet just DELETE these members from the forum board. These bots that got in around OCT 3, are now Toyotamotorhomes.org members. The new software appears to be working great to keep NEW scum out, but the old ones that got in still need to be eradicated. Here are some bots that I see on the site: Some are PORN bots and some are just SPAM bots. http://www.toyotamotorhome.org/forums/inde...p?showuser=2093 = PORN BOT http://www.toyotamotorhome.org/forums/inde...p?showuser=2036 = SPAM BOT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepager5 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 glad these were cought quickly - the pager5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulfstream Greg Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 ...... no the PINK is gone? j/k. The blue is nice too! I run an IP.Board forum as well and was struggling with those damn bots, even with captcha enabled. The final solution was to add a custom profile field that has stumped those bots for 2 years now! Basically the bots can only enter what they "see" not what they "read". It works so well, that I have actually removed the captcha. Some of those letters are just so hard to read anyways. The field is something basic like enter the numbers <six-five-seven> just the numbers no spaces: users input 657 Or something similar where the numbers are written. For our boards we came up with this: Ok just something to try if they still manage to get past the new captcha. I like that! You should post this to the IPB forums.As for the spam posts I think that they got in before I did the captcha upgrade. Got your PM just as I was walking out the door. I think I got them out. I suspend them for 40000 days as instead of deleting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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