I will definitely do, I am keep watching now. Thanks a lot for your continuous advise and support :up: ... Is there any way to redirect him once he registers again to a malicious site to infect his PC? :D ... The idea jumped to my mind when you wrote this phrase:

HE would be getting a new computer after he put the fire out.

That might be it. this is the one actually https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183268

Use it to detect multiple accounts and then put them on global ignore using the "tachy goes coventry" from user banning options. Dont ban them - always put on ignore. If you ban them then they will just keep coming back.

I wouldn't recommend any of that. However, back in my botnet fighting days I wasn't above going into the zombie computers through their modem and frying their processor by grossly overclocking it. That's what I was referencing. Those computers were wet paper sacks for security, that's why they were botnet zombies to start with.

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The only problem with Tachy is, if they log out they can see their posts aren't posting.

Yes. If they realise that then they will create another account. So you have to repeat the process again. The thing is that if they have to keep checking it takes the fun out of trolling and ultimately they give up.

I have worn out several determined trolls this way. Trust me - banning doesnt work. Put them on global ignore and wear them out.

That is one of my techniques. I've never banned any account, letting them know they are banned only encourages more of the same, I agree.



To the OP: To REALLY freak your guy out, unban his account, assign it a password only you know, and start posting with it. Have him looking for homosexual hookups, etc.

I think users awaiting confirmation arent shown on Who's online. Check if the usergroup id is listed in forum.php. Usually the usergroup id of Users Awaiting Email Confirmation is 3 it may be different on your forum. If it is then add that number to the skipgroups array in forum.php like 3,4,5 etc.


Also set your usergroup permissions so that Users Awaiting Email Confirmation cant post on the forums.

I have tried all those precautions but still users awaiting email confirmation (group ID =3) appear on forum statistics including those on line. However they couldn't post

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The evil guy user agent looks like that:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0

Any suggestions?

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This is the full user agent of the evil guy:

Can I use something like that: HTTP/1.1 in ban spiders by user agent?

Just to let you know that the evil obscene guy I am talking about him has registered here today with my real name (mohamed hashesh) to continue his disgraceful and obscene behaviour!