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Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:35 am
by avij
De-Ker wrote:Crazy Bob wrote:Lots of spam today...
As long as we are able to post without logging in this is going to be the reality every now and then. I would say make a sort of guestbook inside the site, and stop allowing users(or bots) to post without logging in.
Great, then we'd need to clean up the spam from EBT as well. Forcing people to log in to post their message does not eliminate the problem, the spambots can create accounts as well. How about just ignoring the spam until it gets deleted by the moderators/admins?
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:51 pm
by De-Ker
avij wrote:De-Ker wrote:Crazy Bob wrote:Lots of spam today...
As long as we are able to post without logging in this is going to be the reality every now and then. I would say make a sort of guestbook inside the site, and stop allowing users(or bots) to post without logging in.
Great, then we'd need to clean up the spam from EBT as well. Forcing people to log in to post their message does not eliminate the problem, the spambots can create accounts as well. How about just ignoring the spam until it gets deleted by the moderators/admins?
No it doesn't eliminate the problem, but i'm sure it makes the problem less big. I'm on several phpBB boards but this one is the one with the biggest spam-problem, it's the only one where posting is allowed without logged in.
Ignoring spam until it gets deleted doesn't solve the problem either now does it?
I don't really mind ignoring it, but im certain lot's of people find it quite disturbing, thus i try to find a sollution instead of doing nothing, therefore: don't see it as an attack or just moaning. it's just feedback.
About the guest book thingy: Spam bots tend to concentrate on forums, rather then guest books. On a forum spam is directly visible for lot's of people. in guest books the spam will go to second page (if not deleted) quite fast because lot's of messages will be posted , and result in people not seeing it any more. In other words. There is not much spam on guest books because it's just not that profitable for the spam-bot-makers.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:23 pm
by pipocadoce
again today
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:53 pm
by Ord€p
Just one question: These spam messages started to appear many times in the forum when the fakers where cleaned from the database. It's possible to verify the IP from the messages and the IP from users who were cleaned? Probably is someone that was polluting the database and now is polluting our forum.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:07 am
by avij
Ord€p wrote:Just one question: These spam messages started to appear many times in the forum when the fakers where cleaned from the database. It's possible to verify the IP from the messages and the IP from users who were cleaned? Probably is someone that was polluting the database and now is polluting our forum.
No, these don't appear to be related. This is just spam. Today's spam originated from Russia, Ukraine, British Virgin Islands, China, ..., while the EBT users were connecting from their native countries.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:05 pm
by doiknow
Can someone please be so kind and delete this porno and vagina spam threads? They are annoying and nobody is able to find the real important topics in these forums.
edit:
I just saw there are many registered Spambots in this Forum. So locking the guest-write-function won't work in this case. Seems to be a security hole somewhere in phpBB3, I think.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:54 pm
by avij
doiknow wrote:I just saw there are many registered Spambots in this Forum. So locking the guest-write-function won't work in this case. Seems to be a security hole somewhere in phpBB3, I think.
Sigh.. No, it's not a security hole, just spam.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:05 pm
by Craco
Since beginning of February, there has been a considerable increase in spam bot activity from Russia, Ukraine etc.. We have put some extra measures in place to cope with this increase. We will continue to monitor the situation and apply new measures when required.
I thank you again for your patience and please continue to report spam posts if you see one, so that moderators can act on it.
Greetzz,
Craco
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:20 am
by eddydevries
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:05 am
by eddydevries
Russian commercial posts:
one,
one and
one.
With a mistake
:
if you
want to use the links, you can't, because there's an Enter inside the code
.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:44 pm
by eddydevries
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:56 am
by pipocadoce
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:08 am
by eddydevries
Three times the
same message in the "Avij's and Nerzhul's to do topic".
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:50 pm
by HNL
Please use the 'report this post' button
to report SPAM messages to the moderators. This will enable us to remove such messages a.s.a.p.
Re: What to do if you see a spam message on EBTF
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:58 pm
by eddydevries
Thanks.
I hadn't noticed this button yet, but I will use it next time
.
