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Postby Thomas MacFinn » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:26 am

May I suggest locking down new memeberships to the board for a little bit? Looks like the spammer just made another login
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Re: Spam

Postby Tails » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:49 am

while I agree that we need to do something about this, I don't think thats the way about solving it.
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Re: Spam

Postby Claymore » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:01 pm

I'm not very good with networks, but is this guy logging on through the same IP address each time? Or are we dealing with a setup that gets around that?

Just mentioning because I've heard of IP banning, but I'm not familiar with the effectiveness.
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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:20 pm

Nope, they all come in from different IP addresses.
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Re: Spam

Postby Juicer » Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:05 pm

I know it's a hassle, but you could just switch it to admin/mod permission.
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Re: Spam

Postby Thomas MacFinn » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:10 pm

Tails wrote:while I agree that we need to do something about this, I don't think thats the way about solving it.


I'm open to alternatives.
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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:26 pm

Really the only viable solution is to put in a challenge question. Because of the setup we have, this isn't as simple as you'd think, it's actually a pain in the *.

There is no way I'm going to turn on admin authentication. I don't have 2 hours a day to sit and sift through new members.
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Re: Spam

Postby Bortas » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:57 pm

But that advanced text system in the registration only section of the board files... It's as simple as downloading, uploading two files the server, and adding one line of code to one php file. It's not perfect, it's not pretty, but I haven't had a spammer since install.

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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:12 pm

Yeah, I'm hesitant to put something in that gives you a free trial as a permanent solution.
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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:36 pm

http://board.belegarth.com/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=30553

New one.

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:38 pm

New in Foam Smithing, Armory...

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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:45 pm

For anyone who wants to report these guys to me, the best way to do so is to give me a link to their profile. I can delete the user and all their posts in a couple quick clicks.
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Re: Spam

Postby Chicken » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:05 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Bortas » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:44 pm

Derian wrote:Yeah, I'm hesitant to put something in that gives you a free trial as a permanent solution.
Occasionally, good things are free. Seems to be worth doing until a permanent solution is found. *shrug*

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Re: Spam

Postby Chicken » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:07 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:53 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Chicken » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:01 am

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Re: Spam

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Re: Spam

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Re: Spam

Postby Claymore » Tue May 12, 2009 8:18 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Tue May 12, 2009 7:17 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Thu May 14, 2009 11:38 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Sun May 24, 2009 7:43 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Tue May 26, 2009 10:26 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Sat May 30, 2009 8:58 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Black Cat » Sun May 31, 2009 7:32 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Black Cat » Sun May 31, 2009 9:55 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Hanov3r » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:17 am

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=11876

This one's PMing spam links
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Re: Spam

Postby Chicken » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:22 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Tails » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:46 am

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Re: Spam

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Re: Spam

Postby Runner » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:08 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:17 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Elebrim » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:15 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Cib » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:59 pm

EdmundPaquette just posted a whack load.
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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:10 pm

Cib wrote:EdmundPaquette just posted a whack load.

QFT. Here's the profile:

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Re: Spam

Postby Big King Jimmy » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:52 am

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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:20 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby Galya » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:40 pm

Wow...posting in the Web Design forum. This bot has guts. :)

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Re: Spam

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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:48 am

Oh, there is a captcha up.
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Re: Spam

Postby Arrakis » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:34 am

I suppose I meant to say, "Pray, increase the strength of the captcha, my brother, and man well the gunwales!"
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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:30 pm

It's pretty much at the max strength it can get without being illegible. phpBB really needs to implement a challenge question option, because all the mods I've found that do it are turrible.
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Re: Spam

Postby Rasheab » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:48 pm

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Re: Spam

Postby No'Vak » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:12 pm

And hes not even really linking to anything either.
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Re: Spam

Postby Sir Cairbre » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:49 am

Derian wrote:It's pretty much at the max strength it can get without being illegible. phpBB really needs to implement a challenge question option, because all the mods I've found that do it are turrible.


You can make a challenge questions. I have on all the other boards I manage. It is usually a simple math problem. What is Seven + 3 =?.

Here is a the tutorial:
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Re: Spam

Postby Satanaka » Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:30 am

wow- lot of work behide the "Curtain"

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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:44 am

It's not that I don't know how to do a challenge question or need help coming up with some, it's that the functionality to require them for registration is not present in phpBB and I'm hesitant to hack it up for risk of problems down the road.
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Re: Spam

Postby Sir Cairbre » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:24 pm

The concept is pre-built into PhpBB's current ACP. You create a new field in the users profile. Like our "Favorite Fighting Style" text field. Then you set the description to "What is 3+4?" and make it a numeric field. Then you set the only acceptable answer as "7" and the field is required at registration. You then might want to make the field invisible after registration accept to the user. It is not a hack at all, just a custom configuration.
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Re: Spam

Postby Derian » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:12 pm

Christ, I'm dumb.

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Derian
Become One With the Wind
 
Posts: 5969
Joined: Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:20 pm
Location: Cedar Falls, IA
Started Fighting: 01 Apr 2001
Realm: Nan Belegorn
Unit: Hellhammer
Favorite Fighting Styles: Sword & Board
Pronouns: He / Him

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