cheddatom Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Oh so it's you mods who are deleting all the porn? B*stards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Tinman Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Oh, I'm always lagging behind everyone else aren't I? Could someone at least give me chance to look at these rude posts before they are deleted? Sorry chaps. Sounds like a major flippin' headache, as if you lot running this place don't have enough to do already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='298738' date='Oct 3 2008, 05:00 PM']Oh, I'm always lagging behind everyone else aren't I? [b]Could someone at least give me chance to look at these rude posts before they are deleted?[/b] Sorry chaps. Sounds like a major flippin' headache, as if you lot running this place don't have enough to do already [/quote] Don't worry Mrs T, they aren't those 'home videos' Mr Tinman made a while back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 By searching through - members - newest joiners, you can see the spammer / spambot is still creating accounts to get in. I wish I was better at computing type things because I want to launch a DOS attack at their IP! (or something like that ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Tinman Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='warwickhunt' post='298739' date='Oct 3 2008, 05:02 PM']Don't worry Mrs T, they aren't those 'home videos' Mr Tinman made a while back [/quote] I should hope not, they didn't really show your 'best side' did they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Tinman Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='Hamster' post='298745' date='Oct 3 2008, 05:08 PM']because I want to launch a DOS attack at their IP! (or something like that )[/quote] Does your sniper training come in handy for that sort of thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBeefChief Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='298768' date='Oct 3 2008, 05:31 PM']they didn't really show your 'best side' did they? [/quote] Best side? Inside more like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='298770' date='Oct 3 2008, 05:31 PM']Does your sniper training come in handy for that sort of thing? [/quote] Now I am quite good at balistically adjusting people's attitudes from a distance but I'm in civvy street now and not allowed to do that sort of thing anymore :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 [quote name='geilerbass' post='298279' date='Oct 3 2008, 08:41 AM']Damn the bastards! Good work on stemming the flow guys - must be a real nightmare. I don't think it would be unreasonable for authorities to publish the home addresses of known spammers on the internet, so that disgruntled recipients can go round their houses and cram the spammers' letter boxes full of pages from porn mags and flyers for viagra.[/quote] What gets me is that they think we'll actually buy into it after them having attacked our forum.... yeah great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 These spammers are even more deeply stupid than normal. Did they not check the subject of the forum first? We're bass players we don't need Viagra or porn, as we have nubile groupies at our beck and call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorne Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Just do what I do when Adminning the BC Rich Player's forum,any new account needs mine or the other Admin's autherisation,If I see the member's language is set to Albanian,then too bad,you ain't getting in,that's where 99% of the scumbags come from,also look out for any email addresses that have the same name as the intended member's user name,especially on Gmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I think that would mean a high workload to approve people all the time and lead to delays, too. Best to stop the feckers altogether - which is being sorted as we speak, I think!! Cheers ped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7653478.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7653478.stm[/url] I wouldn't be surprised if it was linked to ours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escholl Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 [quote name='Lorne' post='299694' date='Oct 5 2008, 12:44 AM']also look out for any email addresses that have the same name as the intended member's user name,especially on Gmail[/quote] that would rule me out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 There are certain patterns with the email addresses as well as the IP numbers. BTW the forum should be updated soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 (edited) I see the latest forum update has stopped the spamming attacks Can you not add a verification code when you sign up for an account? Edited October 7, 2008 by Waldo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 The forum has been upgraded, I'm going to keep the Admin validation on new members for the rest of the day to see if the upgrade actually does the job its supposed to. The main change in the upgrade is a more sophisticated Captcha feature so hopefully that should answer your question Waldo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='301120' date='Oct 7 2008, 11:07 AM']The forum has been upgraded, I'm going to keep the Admin validation on new members for the rest of the day to see if the upgrade actually does the job its supposed to. The main change in the upgrade is a more sophisticated Captcha feature.[/quote] Sounds like the best thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 OKdoke, looks like the upgrade has staunched the flow of bogus accounts so I've removed Admin validation from user account signups. There's a chance that some accounts may have slipped through while we were still learning to recognise what was bogus. Hopefully though we've cleaned up most of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayward-Wanderer Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Well if the spam attacks are coming from one or two specfic IPs, why not just IP ban them? I'm not really good with computors, so i'm not sure that would work or if you can do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 26, 2008 Author Share Posted October 26, 2008 That would work if everyone had a fixed IP address. However many ISP's provide dynamic IP addresses meaning a subscriber is assigned a new IP whenever they turn on their modem and connect. So for a number of members living in the same neighbourhood (such as Northampton) and connected to the same Internet Provider (such as NTL) banning on IP would potentially block any members who were assigned that IP address. Obviously we don't want to block the IP addresses of members who haven't been involved in spamming but live in the same locality. Also it would be quite easy for a spammer to disconnect and reconnect in order to be assigned an IP that isn't blocked. Besides which these particular spammers have routed through overseas servers so even if we did ban on the basis of IP number, the spammers could simply select another unbanned server through which to route their connection. I personally suspected the spammers were Russian in origin. Anyway, no more problems since the forum was patched so hopefully this will be the end of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooke Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 ^^^ whut??? ^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Someone was spam link baiting and I've deleted all their posts. It's often being done by real people for internet marketing companies and its going to happen more as the forum gets higher rankings on google unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadge Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Having just read the topic [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=60242"]"Can the idiot who's posting porn links be blocked?"[/url] I was wondering if you're aware of [url="http://botscout.com"]BotScout[/url]? I implemented it on a couple of my SMF forums a while ago and it's been very successful in reducing the incidence of unwanted bots — just thought I'd ask ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machines Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Cheers Gadge - will see how easy this is to implement . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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