kittycat Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Many forums are being attacked it apears and even ipb quickly came out with an update in order to stop it, which has worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I only had one spam bot and that was shortly after IPS came out with the update. I quickly installed the update and have not gotten any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I only had one spam bot and that was shortly after IPS came out with the update. I quickly installed the update and have not gotten any more.When was this update released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Today, 12:55 PMhttp://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=277539 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Bandit Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Thankful no I've not. I've had enough problems with trolls. I think I'm good on forum drama for a bit. prono spammers, drama from another forum, and just ya not god so many trolls. I hope my luck has changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I did not get many but I know I saw posts all over the place where even hotmail got hit hard by spambots. I used to get a lot of drama on my site now its just people having fun and having good conversations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I did not get many but I know I saw posts all over the place where even hotmail got hit hard by spambots. I used to get a lot of drama on my site now its just people having fun and having good conversations.I installed the update, the new captcha backgrounds make things considerably more difficult, as well as the new fonts  I already had it set up to do random numbers instead of the first 6 characters of the reg_id... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Me Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I run vbulletin and notices a lot of people whinning about the bots today at the members forum but I didn't have a issue on any of my forums. I think because this coder from vbulletin.org came out with a pretty decent hack and it is a lot more impressive than anything I have ever seen before. Since I installed the hack a few months back I haven't had any issues other than trolls LMAO I have a few members like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I have not gotten any more then the few I got yesterday. The IPB patch works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I have not gotten any more then the few I got yesterday. The IPB patch works fine.What was wrong was IPB was using the first 6 characters of $reg_id for the captcha instead of generating random letters/numbers It was making it too easy to guess. That and the font+background was easy for a bot to decipher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Yep I think in ipb 2.3.6 they will added recapcha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Yep I think in ipb 2.3.6 they will added recapcha.I was going to add it myself, you can do it with a mod but the current captcha system looks good enough for me for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Ya same here but I did just get one more bot that just posted a link to an adult site and I do not allow adult content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Ya same here but I did just get one more bot that just posted a link to an adult site and I do not allow adult content.Maybe someday these programmers will find more productive uses for their time. I guess they do get decent money in referrals due to the affiliate programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Yep some one was saying on another site who clicks on those links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Yep some one was saying on another site who clicks on those links. Honestly, you might be surprised. Apparently they get SOMETHING out of it, or they wouldn't go to the trouble. It's like spam mail, you would say "Who clicks on those links?" but people do it, or nobody would bother sending spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Yep I know I have had customers click on links in spam emails and wonder why they all the sudden have a virus.Or one time I remember some one thought they were getting some thing free from one of those emails saying they won and wondered why they had not gotten it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Bandit Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 I'm still confused how these bots can get by image verification or questions. That still worries me. Thankfully my board is so small and hard to find (not happy about that really) it seemed to have been ignored, or not on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 I'm still confused how these bots can get by image verification or questions. That still worries me. Thankfully my board is so small and hard to find (not happy about that really) it seemed to have been ignored, or not on the list. Most bots find your forums by search engines, at least they did last time I looked into it. That is unless somebody knows about your forums and hates you (not too likely, I wouldn't think). Captcha is difficult but some of them are easy to figure out for programs. I've been a programmer for over 15 years and I have written code to figure out captcha just to see if I could do it but I've never released it to the public; if I could write it then I am sure somebody else could too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Bandit Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Most bots find your forums by search engines, at least they did last time I looked into it. That is unless somebody knows about your forums and hates you (not too likely, I wouldn't think). Captcha is difficult but some of them are easy to figure out for programs. I've been a programmer for over 15 years and I have written code to figure out captcha just to see if I could do it but I've never released it to the public; if I could write it then I am sure somebody else could too. Thanks mike I didn't understand it was that easy to crack. What bugs me is this just makes it harder for real forum members to go about their business. I've got a visual impairment and I hate using the image verification its definitely a vexing problem. Like you said though mike, they wouldn't do this unless they made money of it some how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 It's not easy to pass by any means, it does take some work and skill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 No spam bot attacks here yet, *waits* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Bandit Posted November 5, 2008 Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 No spam bot attacks here yet, *waits* Â Â I could act like a spam bot, but I don't think that would do well for my reputation. Â I don't know spam bots are fine, its the trolls that worry me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Had a few trolls on my site but I call them goombas lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Had a few trolls on my site but I call them goombas lol.Did you jump on their heads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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