Finally... Russian Spam Bots begone!

[Xuri]

Finally managed to fix the Visual Confirmation on user-registration, so I can turn off having to activate each user manually, since new users now have to type in some random letters/numbers from a image that shows up when registering.

Also applied another small trick to the registration page, which should stop any bots which by some magic or other manage to interpret the image correctly

Yay.

[giwo]

Awww....

No more h0t rU$$i4n 4ct10n

[Xuri]

Finally... Russian Spam Bots begone - take 2!

Had several of the subforums set to public instead of registered, which allowed guests to post there Also modified registration forum so that the form the bots submit when they attempt to register will be WRONG (muhahaha) so - hopefully no more non-validated spambot users in the memberlist ;P

[Grimson]

You can also add that mod: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.ph ... lacklisted
I use it on my forums and got only 2 or 3 of those fake members per month on my board.

Then I modified registration so that it also stores the IP, from which a member gets registered, and found one company that seems to run most of those bots. Their IP range is: 217.10.32.1 to 217.10.47.255, since banning those IPs I get no more fake members.

[stranf]

What does a "fake" bot do?

Log in and check it's PMs?

I've never seen one, but I assume they advertise services or reading material that is.....well......a waste of time and $$.

[giwo]

Xuri usually nailed them pretty quick. But once in a while you'd see a user register only to post links to porn sites and other such wonderful treasures. Usually they would do so on every single forum they were able to, and continually do so until the hole was fixed.


Aren't you sad to see them go?

[Kiff]

Without them... how will I find porn on the internet? Damn you Xuri, Damn you!