Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
hi thegleek,
if you read my post, you can see that I used the "(1)" as a reference for the code:
<script type="text/javascript">;)
hi all
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
you can see the script in action here. :)
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
moaiamorfo wrote:
hi thegleek,
if you read my post, you can see that I used the "(1)" as a reference for the code:
<script type="text/javascript">
hi all
yeah yeah.. well regardless, got it working on my site 100%. so all kudos to you sir 
~thegleek
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
thegleek wrote:
moaiamorfo wrote:hi thegleek,
if you read my post, you can see that I used the "(1)" as a reference for the code:
<script type="text/javascript">;)
hi all
yeah yeah.. well regardless, got it working on my site 100%. so all kudos to you sir :)
glad to hear this, my friend. :)
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
Unfortunately I have to report that a spambot has managed to register itself on one of my forums despite the use of the modification from moaiamorfo. The spambot registered itself with username 'ProgonkaOne' and a Google search resulted many registrations with the same postings on many PunBB forums.
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Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
PunUser wrote:
...and a Google search resulted many registrations with the same postings on many PunBB forums.
And lots and lots of vBulletin, SMF, phpBB etc forums too. A pretty virulent bot.
ProgonkaOne looks like a ban word to put in the 'censoring' list...
From your Apache logs, can you tell where the bot came from when they first signed up, BTW?
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
Hummm...
I've been getting spammed with a bot masquerading as google webcrawler... It's IP is always from a ISP or internet host (and never owned by google). Funny thing is it never gets to the forums, since I use https (and any http request is forwarded to https). The bot requests http://robshouse.no-ip.info, gets forwarded to https://robshouse.no-ip.info and then requests http://robshouse.no-ip.info, etc... for about 1 to 3 hours.
Might be a good idea for yous to switch your entire site over to https, doesn't look like many bots support that protocal. That being said, any search engine bot works fine with https (including google adsense), at least the ones that have crawled my site that is.
echo "deadram"; echo; fortune;
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
just as an fyi IOTA's mod has killed 99.99% of the spam on hte forums i have put it on. I was getting hundreds of spam bots posting a day.
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34 2007-03-17 16:50 (edited by PunUser 2007-03-17 16:51)
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
sirena wrote:
PunUser wrote:...and a Google search resulted many registrations with the same postings on many PunBB forums.
And lots and lots of vBulletin, SMF, phpBB etc forums too. A pretty virulent bot.
ProgonkaOne looks like a ban word to put in the 'censoring' list...
From your Apache logs, can you tell where the bot came from when they first signed up, BTW?
Sorry, no, I don't have access to my hoster' Apache logs.
Emancipator wrote:
just as an fyi IOTA's mod has killed 99.99% of the spam on hte forums i have put it on. I was getting hundreds of spam bots posting a day.
I just implemented the mod from IOTA as well, hope that stops 'em...
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
i have tried a few methods, but the IOTA mod is simple, and effective so far. I had to actually empty two forums because it was faster to delete the forum then delete the massive spam. Since this was added no problems.
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36 2007-05-06 19:48 (edited by niclasc 2007-05-06 19:49)
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
Seems some bots have solved iota's spam prevention. I've been getting several spams this week on a forum I administer and all those spambots have -12 as timezone depsite having iota's fix.
To deal with this, I'm changing my input value and input description as well and also removing all the if-cases in the code to set one option value as selected (so that none of my option values are selected. I don't want to give the spambots any hint), to see if that help. The spamb*st*rds shan't win...
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
the spammers have already adjusted their code to this mod, it will still cut down spam by 1% but they are getting through now again
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
I've used Akismet for Wordpress in the past and seems to do a really good job of telling what is and what isn't spam...
Thanks for this plugin, I have installed it, though I was only getting about 1 spam a day... my forums are relatively new, so I don't want them ruined by spam bots.
Re: Simple way to stop spam signups
here's an awesome article about SPAM that came up around 4 days ago:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007 … ct_specter
read it and for sure you will be enlighted!
~thegleek