Forums under attack

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Tue 14.11.2006, 22:49

The forums are under attack from spammers. I think I've kept it pretty clean. If anyone really wanted to see evidence that I do something around here, there you go

It looks like the spammers who were deluging the Internet with junk mail from cashette.com back in 2004 have now targeted our forums.

So, I banned all email addresses *@cashette.com from the forums. I also deleted five members from that site, and some zero-post count members who were basically ads for porn sites with obviously faked email addresses. This brings my kill count to the double digits this week.

Happy forum-ing

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Fri 17.11.2006, 04:55

Wow, another 24 tonight...

Post by **Warrior** » Fri 17.11.2006, 11:06

Good work Berendol.
I hope it's not gonna get out of control.
Do they make some kinda automatic signup bot or are they all signing up manually?

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Fri 17.11.2006, 13:12

It looks automatic, because they never successfully log in after they make their accounts.

We do the whole confirmation email thing here, so when they sign up with bogus email addresses, they can't use their new accounts. That saves us from a lot of spam! ::)

Remember to use confirmation emails if you set up your own forums someday. They are worth the annoyance they cause new members.

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Sun 19.11.2006, 15:47

Take a look at this site, basically what it does is generates an infinte series of links and bogus email addresses for any spambot that follows it. Might help with the current spam problems.

http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

Post by **Warrior** » Tue 21.11.2006, 14:39

Massive increase in spam to my inbox the last couple of days.
like 250+. well, luckily all caught by spamfilter, but still.

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Wed 22.11.2006, 21:21

Since this forum is accessible to guests (aka non members), you may wish to hide your email address from the public. Check your profile, there should be a box to change that.

Post by **Warrior** » Thu 23.11.2006, 11:29

Yes, I know, I've just wanted to keep it here in case anyone wants to contact me. And spamfilter is kinda effective. Just mentioned the increase for information really.

But I think I'm gonna have to just change it to mangband at gmail bla bla or something.
Thanks

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Fri 01.12.2006, 12:59

Crimson... help!!

The volume has been increasing hugely in recent days, and I came back from a 1 week vacation to see over 80 new zero-post members from the same spam addresses.

Could you analyze traffic to the website and see if maybe there is a way to stop these folks from spamming our member list?

I'd love to have a feature in YaBB that would expire a user account if it hasn't been activated 7 days after it's creation.

I think maybe it is time to consider an upgrade to the software.

Fink · Post by **Fink** » Fri 01.12.2006, 22:36

Yeah, every time I check the forums, I see a new user listed - the avalanche has begun. Perhaps its time for some escalation of authentication?

grisu · Post by **grisu** » Thu 21.12.2006, 13:41

please dont delete me again, I validated the acc and even posted.

Berendol · Post by **Berendol** » Fri 22.12.2006, 01:43

Sorry about that. There isn't a way to tell whether someone completed registration other than their post count... I'll make sure all your posts are counted.

(edit) Done, and some forum maintenance completed.

MAngband

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