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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?

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

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

Cheers.

back track mickey604

OK, pays to check more that the most recent post

Cheers

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

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.

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.

Another mickey post on the Mellbourne Supplies thread.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

pqs754

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.

Survival of the smartest


Cheers.

080907k

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

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

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.

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...