F*$&%^# spambots

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:30 am

Jeez, we have been getting a few spambots lately.

Where's the plug-in that lets me reach through the browser window and punch those scumbags in the face?

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:59 am

how they getin thru security. thought that funy writein you got to put in at registrin cut that out.

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:07 am

What's going on Hook?
All is completely normal my end.

Cheers.

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:11 am

back track mickey604

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:13 am

OK, pays to check more that the most recent post

Cheers

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:19 am

tracker remind me not to have you walkin point. ha ha

StabbyJoe · Post by **StabbyJoe** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:40 am

I know how to deal (very throughly) with bots that rake pages for email addresses etc to spam your personal e-mail address...
No clue on the ones that advertise by spamming forum threads.

If you are referring to the kind that get your email addy solutions include complex spam-bot shaking scripts that go around the email addy, posting it as an image instead of text, or much simpler and more effective google 'Spam Poison' - you can get the coding for a button that spam bots follow and get trapped in, being fed an infinite stream of email addresses that cannot exist trapping it in a loop from which it needs to be manually reset. The bot will have this happen to it again on any page it goes through with the Spam Poison button on it.

Man I love the person who came up with that.

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:46 am

goose eye wrote:tracker remind me not to have you walkin point. ha ha

Good one, goose.

'Spam Poison'. That sounds just right for the job.

And I don't know if 'spambot' is quite the right term, but you all know what I am talking about.

Post by **Hawke** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:10 am

Another mickey post on the Mellbourne Supplies thread.

trthskr4 · Post by **trthskr4** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:39 am

I reported a couple of them myself from micky0604. Those bastards should be taken out and shot.

Post by **theholymackerel** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:26 am

Yep. The spammers showed up in force about two weeks ago.

Me and the other mods have been in the trenches deletin' and bannin' em as fast as they pop up. They are persistant though.

Any spam yall see hit the "report this post" button and we'll make them go live with Jesus.

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:32 am

theholymackerel wrote:Me and the other mods have been in the trenches deletin' and bannin' em as fast as they pop up. They are persistant though.

Appreciate the work you guys do, THM, and wasn't complaining about the service (just in case it came across like that).

theholymackerel wrote:Any spam yall see hit the "report this post" button and we'll make them go live with Jesus.

Will do. Anything to make it easier for the mods.

Post by **Husker** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:45 am

I fully agree with THM. If posts (that are 100% for sure spam) get flagged by users with the "flag this post" button, it makes clean up (and banning the poster) pretty trivial.

H.

trthskr4 · Post by **trthskr4** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:53 am

Husker wrote:I fully agree with THM. If posts (that are 100% for sure spam) get flagged by users with the "flag this post" button, it makes clean up (and banning the poster) pretty trivial.

H.

Good to hear, I really didn't know what happened behind the scenes after hitting that button but figured I'd follow the directions. Thanks for keeping the forum clean as possible.

violentblue · Post by **violentblue** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:41 pm

I moderate another forum, I hacked the php code a little and now the spam bots cant get on our site, and can't access the email adresses.
its some simple code hacks, but they're very effective.

occasionally we'll get a manual spammer,a person not a bot, that will post all sorts of crap, but we delete his stuff and ban his IP. its just too much bother for him to come back.
the bots are fooled really easily, so theyer not a problem as long as you're not running standard phpbb software.

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:08 pm

goose eye wrote:tracker remind me not to have you walkin point. ha ha

Did that for a time but was not very good at it (thankfully) got put further back in the line.

Cheers

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:17 am

pqs754

Post by **blanikdog** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:46 pm

tracker0945 wrote:
goose eye wrote:tracker remind me not to have you walkin point. ha ha
Did that for a time but was not very good at it (thankfully) got put further back in the line.

Cheers

WTG, tracker. Cunning bastard.

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:49 pm

Survival of the smartest

Cheers.

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:48 am

080907k

Post by **HookLine** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:18 am

Goose, if you want to report a spambot all you have to do is click on the little red exclamation mark in the bottom right hand corner of the bot's comment, and it will get reported to the mods/site owner.

Cheers

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:47 am

down at botom of page it say who here. it got yahoo bot google bot an i seen a new one
-turnitin bot- any of yall got any history on it.

just looked it up an it sayin it for plagerism in school. how many folks you rekon writein about
makein likker in school

violentblue · Post by **violentblue** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:05 pm

goose eye wrote:how many folks you rekon writein about
makein likker in school

probably would have done when I was in school, of course that was well before the internet.

Socrates · Post by **Socrates** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:54 am

I run a couple of phpbb boards and there is a very simple "mod" available that absolutely eliminates ALL the spam bots. Since I used it I have not had one bot make it through in many months (though I can see they keep trying). This mod is simple enough that even dummies like me are able to quickly and easily install it.

If you want the reference and method just PM me, be glad to help. I hate those bastards...

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