spam attack
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Michael Morris
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Two weeks ago the algorythm used in PHP GDK for human verification (you know, the squiggly letter) was finally cracked. The result is now we're getting inundated with bots. I'll need to up the paranoia on the spam filters it seems as they are only really meant as a second line of defense.
Another more asinine solution is to forbid new posters from creating new threads until the account is 1 month old or they make new posts.
I'll think of something. As I said along with a few explicatives on www.nutkinland.com - two can play the script writing game.
Another more asinine solution is to forbid new posters from creating new threads until the account is 1 month old or they make new posts.
I'll think of something. As I said along with a few explicatives on www.nutkinland.com - two can play the script writing game.
Michael Morris
First Post
That's not the reason. This type of spam is known as comment spam. The primary motive of the spammer is to get a link reference to be followed from here to their site so that Google is tricked into ranking their pages very high. Unfortunately for them all the links created by the URL tag at ENWorld have the rel="nofollow" protocol, meaning the google spider knows to NOT follow the link - hence they are wasting their time. However since they've now defeated the human verify system they can program a bot to make the posts ad naseum until their banned.
You can see the spammer's motives in their own words here (warning - very crude language)
These bastards took away the USENET and Spammed it beyond usability in the late 90's. They're gonna try to do it again to forum software - but this time we have an edge. We control the medium of transfer. I can and I will write the software necessary to thwart these attacks using a combination of blacklists and Bayesian filtering and other techniques.
You can see the spammer's motives in their own words here (warning - very crude language)
These bastards took away the USENET and Spammed it beyond usability in the late 90's. They're gonna try to do it again to forum software - but this time we have an edge. We control the medium of transfer. I can and I will write the software necessary to thwart these attacks using a combination of blacklists and Bayesian filtering and other techniques.
James Heard
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I think that, having such a large number of gamers in the military, the options for proceeding should be quite clear.
Michael Morris
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Doesn't help kirinke. These guys switch ISP's on a WEEKLY basis and forge their id's in order to dodge ISP blacklists lodged against them.
80% of all spam on the net is the responsibility of around 200 individual spam operations believe it or not. Here's the list known as the ROKSO list.
80% of all spam on the net is the responsibility of around 200 individual spam operations believe it or not. Here's the list known as the ROKSO list.
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