Spamvasion

[Psycho Circus]

It seems we are being overrun by "guest" spammers, spouting on about car finance which is preceeded by some goofy cryptic message. It's more than just one irritating jerk and they're popping up on threads more than 6 years old! Go away!

We must fight back people.



If we set up like this (if anyone has any of those green things around to block) we can sit back and shoot them to death.

[Doggett]

Agreed, they're everywhere.


Circus, get my chainsaw...I'm goin' for the personal touch...

[Rev. Powell]

I've removed about 9 of them this afternoon.  But, I can't be on this site all day.  Hopefully Andrew can block some IPs.  

[ghouck]

It seems we are being overrun by "guest" spammers, spouting on about car finance which is preceeded by some goofy cryptic message. It's more than just one irritating jerk and they're popping up on threads more than 6 years old! Go away!

We must fight back people.



If we set up like this (if anyone has any of those green things around to block) we can sit back and shoot them to death.

I have some of those green shield things, but we can't shoot up through them, they're rented. .

[Psycho Circus]

Somebody call Chuck Norris!

[Doggett]

There is just so many of them !!! 

[meQal]

I know who's doing it, the terrorists! They learn the secret that the key to toppling the free world is to take out the Bad Movies forum. I say we invade immediately. There has got to be a bar, tavern, pub, or some eatery near by that we can claim was hiding weapons of mass consumption.  

[Rev. Powell]

22 posts removed so far since noon today. 

[InformationGeek]

I just reported 2 of them!  We are being invaded!!  Tighten the border security!  Circus, we need more than Chuck Norris, we also need Ash and John McClane!  Perhaps a couple of those sharks from Deep Blue Sea...

But seriously, what's with this increase in spam all of a sudden? 

[meQal]

But seriously, what's with this increase in spam all of a sudden? 

Odds are the searchbots they use discovered the forum. That's why most forum sites or places you can leave comments get hit with spam.

[Ash]

This forum has the CAPTCHA feature to stop spammers.
It looks like the spammers have a bot that's able to get past the CAPTCHA.
They're rare, but not unheard of.

The only way to stop them is to block their IP address and report them to their service provider.

The people who do this need to have their computers smashed with sledgehammers, their cars crushed in a compactor, and their homes burned to the ground. 

[Andrew]

It's possible that someone has finally come up with a working attack for SMF's captcha.  What is more likely is that the system was somehow using human interaction to solve the captchas.  I've seen that before.  A porn site or warez site requires the user to solve a captcha to get the goodies.  Only thing is - they're not solving the site's captcha, the person is solving a captcha from another site or forum so that the porn/spam/warez site can post a spam message.

Annoying, eh?  Anyway, there's an IP ban in place now, and all of the spam messages were coming from the same IP address.

[ghouck]

Is SMF made using PHP? I helped a friend implement a keyword list type of anti-spam for PHPbb and it worked pretty well. It was a much smaller forum though, so the keywords weren't being used in common conversation.

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