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Spam Bots; They're quite annoying. -_-;
Topic Started: Mar 26 2007, 08:08 PM (1,524 Views)
Zephyr	Mar 26 2007, 08:08 PM Post #1
Lolchatotavatar Posts: 633 Group: Administrator Member #11 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	As you may have noticed, there has been a recent outbreak of spam bots on the general chat board. They're automatic programs that register to post advertisements and try to get you to buy things. Do not reply to their topics, and most certainly do not click their links. The topics will be deleted in due time, and I am trying to clean them out of the forum as best I can. Any suggestions to deter them, including spambot-stopping registration codes (ie, type what you see in this image to register), would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, you'll just have to hang tight. Spring is noob season, and hopefully they'll go away in due time.
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Wyvern	Mar 26 2007, 08:11 PM Post #2
Why did I fall for a stupid guy? Posts: 116 Group: Member Member #28 Joined: September 10, 2006	I have a question, I can report them right? Also, I think one way to stop them is to Ban their IP. It worked for my friend's forum. Ban and boom, they're gone.
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Zephyr	Mar 26 2007, 09:05 PM Post #3
Lolchatotavatar Posts: 633 Group: Administrator Member #11 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	No, don't report them. It just fills up our inboxes with spam and does nothing, since we delete it whether it's reported or not. Unfortunately we've tried banning their IP, but they generate random IPs so banning them is all i vain. They generally don't post more than once.
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Shadow	Mar 26 2007, 10:10 PM Post #4
/Eyeson~theSky\ Posts: 701 Group: MC Moderator Member #12 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	I've had a couple on my forum once. I just deleted them, and I found a common @whatever.blah in their email addresses and banned that. It wasn't like a normal email address; it was like itpromoteinfo.com or something, so I'm pretty sure I didn't ban any innocent people.
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Wolf Link	Mar 27 2007, 06:59 AM Post #5
Wolf Maniac Posts: 208 Group: Member Member #59 Joined: December 11, 2006	Brrrr...I...hate...spam...bots... Hmm. Do you think we should put that 'Spam Poison' link in the header of the forum? Like the one in Eonlight Valley? Would it work?
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Kronakitty	Mar 28 2007, 12:04 AM Post #6
shining gate! Posts: 624 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 20, 2006 Gender Female	^ I don't know. Either way, I added the button at the bottom of the forum - I hope it works... I got a bunch of common spam bot email address like what Shadow said from the Invisionfree support forum, and although the admin says it'll ban "all spam bots", they're still coming because people will continue making those stupid things. And like Zephyr said, PLEASE stop reply/reporting them - it is indeed annoying.



Shadow	Mar 28 2007, 02:06 AM Post #7
/Eyeson~theSky\ Posts: 701 Group: MC Moderator Member #12 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	Hmm. I'm curious; what does the Spam Poison thing actually do?
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Wolf Link	Mar 28 2007, 07:06 AM Post #8
Wolf Maniac Posts: 208 Group: Member Member #59 Joined: December 11, 2006	It says, 'These links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value. ' Basically, it does the above.
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Shadow	Mar 28 2007, 10:18 PM Post #9
/Eyeson~theSky\ Posts: 701 Group: MC Moderator Member #12 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	Ah. So it basically has a coding that makes the spam bots click on it, and then it's stuck there? That's awesome. ^^
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Orange	Apr 1 2007, 06:09 AM Post #10
Jr. Member Posts: 36 Group: Member Member #62 Joined: December 19, 2006	It doesn't seem like it's working.
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Zephyr	Apr 1 2007, 12:51 PM Post #11
Lolchatotavatar Posts: 633 Group: Administrator Member #11 Joined: August 24, 2006 Gender Female	Mmm, unfortunately I think the spam poison is for email-sending bots only. If someone could find a code for invisionfree that attaches an image input when registering (ie, "type what you see in this box to proceed") that would certainly stop them, though.
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Kronakitty	Apr 1 2007, 03:23 PM Post #12
shining gate! Posts: 624 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 20, 2006 Gender Female	I looked at the codes in the IF support forum, but I haven't found anything yet, so I made a code request topic... no one has replied yet, though. XD EDIT: Apparently, the visual activation is enabled when a lot of users register over a short period of time. Otherwise, there's no other way to do it, and there's no code. -_- But when I logged off and clicked "Register", there was an image with numbers... so I guess it already activated. o.o



Omega Latios	Apr 5 2007, 05:55 PM Post #13
Jr. Member Posts: 46 Group: Member Member #9 Joined: August 24, 2006	Looks like two more spam bots have appeared in general chat... so please delete their threads. ^^
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Kronakitty	Apr 7 2007, 04:07 PM Post #14
shining gate! Posts: 624 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 20, 2006 Gender Female	Either way, I have turned on Admin validation now, so this should stop spambots from posting and an easier way for Zephyr and I to delete them.



Dark Allie	Jul 12 2007, 10:33 PM Post #15
Creater of my own little world.... Posts: 27 Group: Member Member #3 Joined: August 23, 2006	OMG people i know a way! Just put the Security Measure(Captcha) thing so spam bots can't get in! I wonder if that will work... I think ya'll should try it...
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