swoope

iTrader: (5)

yep.

i would like to say i did it with malice and forethought.. but really not so much..

did you fight of an attack tonight? i had a bit of a slow down, that to me says bad **** links!!!

btw,

i am a late nite person, love my job!!!.. could i text someone? it really is getting silly..

beers

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

i havent had a bad time tonight swoope, i major slowdown earlier, but i dont think it was forum related.... text me!!! i'm bored and hunting for torrents

swoope

iTrader: (5)

the text comment was to find someone that could kill the spam..

as to torrents, that is on my to do list of things to lean.. i am old. i am still hacking my phone!

beers

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

i was wondering that, as it was kinda an odd thing to say, lol

hey, i was still hacking my phones till about 6 months ago when i got bored of it i'm only 26

torrents are rawk!

mysql

CAPTCHA will not solve anything. They are easily broken either by automated processes, or redirecting the image to another site (like a **** thumbnail site where users have to enter the info to get access. The user wanting access is shown the CAPTCHA from a remote site, and the info submitted is submitted to the original site and thus automatically "cracked" by human means).

Even Google's captcha is not immune.

What I like doing is putting in a hidden text field with a random key into the page a user is shown. That key is stored into the user's session for that page. The user can only submit if he's loaded the original page and submits a reply/thread that contains the key. If they do not match, the post is rejected. The logic for this is that automated robots use search engines like google to find sites that contain specific forum types (such as vb) that they know the post url and what parms are required. Thus they can find a forum, and post to it without having to pretend to be a user and visit the pages like a user would.

The second thing I do is store when the page was loaded. Most robots that can avoid the first item, will visit a page, then post immediately. This is so they can spam as quickly as possible. With the timestamp, we can reject posts that are submitted within a few seconds of the initial page loading.

I have a few other tricks I employ on my websites (I am intentionally not listing them), but all of them are like the two examples above - completely transparent to the regular user, and none of them involve the users acting like a trained monkey and entering bits of info that hamper normal usage of the website. Suffice to say that I literally have zero spam now. The only way I will get spam is if someone manually does it - which hasn't happened yet since it's typically not cost effective.


I would also recommend not allowing the use of [img] tags unless the user has made more than N posts and been a member longer than Y days.

Another nice thing is to prevent users from being able to create public threads till they've first made a thread in the meet and greet forum. This allows new members to announce themselves and tell us about them, before they're unleashed into the public forums.

XDEEDUBBX

the site got hit again..hahaha

mysql

it would be interesting to see what would happen to a forum if some **** sites bought a non-**** website and started introducing small amounts of **** "spam" which were intentional.

NoOdLe BoY

iTrader: (1)

Good thing I don't experience any effects of these **** sites and ads. Im on my sidekick lx!!!

heyarnold69

iTrader: (1)

lucky

nvrfalter

iTrader: (1)

i like the way you think there, mysql. like i said before

WantedTwo

iTrader: (4)

This is getting annoying

NgoRX8

iTrader: (1)

someone needs to ring up the site owner and tell him what to do... lol

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

aw man, did i miss another attck????

damn it! i'm so bummed now i was a reporting ***** the other night...

well at least mysql has practically told them how to fix it... i doubt they'll listen just yet though... it will take a bit more time

expo1

When people can make money by just making the post this will only get worse. The Board owners need to place limits on what a new account can do.

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=846785

Deathcraft

I think you already have spyware/malware file somewhere in your computer hiding.... Some spyware or malware files are pretty smart that they can mask themselves as OP system files..so most anitvirus' or spyware sweepers will not detect them as spywares or worms...they think they're just necessary system files..

Everytime you visit certain website with particular address..they go to work....communicate with their host to bring up ads....

You might wanna try scanning your comp with two or three different antivirus/spyware sweeper programs.. A lot of antivirus software companies offer free online scan on their websites... One of them should detect it...


Webroot spyware sweeper is pretty good when it comes to finding spywares....A lot of big coporate companies use it...they offer free scan on their website...

Ryan2008

+1, where the hell are the owners and all the site mods? Before another RX8 forum leaves this one in the dust....

alnielsen

iTrader: (4)

We get the crap as soon as we can. Look how quickly I'm replying to your post. It's just that the each individual Mod don't have rights to all the forums (division of responsibilities). Talks are underway to deal with the situation.
If you see a problem, click on the triangle icon below your name to report spam. An email message will be sent to all Mods responsible to that forum.

swoope

iTrader: (5)

yes,

i agree. this is not a mod problem. they really work hard with no pay..

now if the owners would pony up for a more secure site.. that would be a start.

mods would not have to fight spam, they would fight stupid!

beers

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

but swoope... fighting on the Internet is like being in the special olympics...

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

although we can all understand and relate to the current issue...

ummm, what other forum would even REMOTELY qualify as a competitor to this one in terms of traffic?

swoope

iTrader: (5)

i miss the days of fighting stupid.

beers

Kafka

All the mods should get a Blackberry (Or make it a requirement) and forum members will do the report...

Please fix this. I love **** but not from this site goddamn it!

Now look at the ****...hm...

chrism

yay another barrage hitting now!

alnielsen

iTrader: (4)

It looks like RX-GR8 is taking care of it.

expo1

Why not use ALL the features in vBulletin, Q & A verification to be exact.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...anverify_intro

Funny the above link worked when I started this post.