Drug Spamming
 

I have a question for y'all. Is it just me or have y'all had an influx recently of spammers with .ru e-mail addresses spamming your boards with drg company ads. I just had to censor about 30 different links as well as ban a few IP's.

How do y'all safeguard against this on your boards?

Just a couple examples of what I just dealt with...

A lot of urls ending in *.fullka.com

(Edit out a couple of life links to domains for drugs, MarcoH64)

there is an anti-spam hack available for 3.5.x.

Link, please?

There's also one for PM's. Anyway, here it is and the title's a doozy:

SpamBuster v1.0.0 (Stable): Identify, log and remove spam posts on your forum

Does this work? Have you installed it?

I haven't installed it. My community doesn't get the random spam like general community forums. I just remember passing it by when I was looking for another mod. :)

I'm still running 3.0.0, ugh. Alrighty I'm going to have to get my board upgraded. I need to remember the e-mail of the guy I contacted before about it so I can pay him to do it...

Thanks y'all :)

Is the one listed here also for PMs?

I have it installed. I added some "wildcards" so I can identify posts selling stuff. One of my major boards is about clubbing scene in Buenos Aires, we derive thousands of people everynight to different nightclubs.

We have a zero tolerance policy regarding ticket sales and promoting unauthorised Lists and VIP Pass. Well, this hack has helped our staff to track these messages down and delete them within seconds after being published.


Give it a try. The downside, i believe, is that my server load has increased a little bit. But I cant really tell if its because of this hack.

Cheers

1) Block registration from these addresses:

au.ru
bk.ru
fromru.ru
front.ru
go.ru
halyava.ru
hotmail.ru
id.ru
inbox.ru
land.ru
list.ru
mail.ru
mailgate.ru
newmail.ru
nextmail.ru
nm.ru
notmail.ru
ok.ru
pochta.ru
rambler.ru
ru.ru
sendmail.ru
yandex.ru
zmail.ru
gomail.com.ua
mail15.com

2) Block registration from any address containing .info and .biz.

3) Block the IP blocks belonging to Inhoster domains using .htaccess, or better yet at the server level. (Inhoster is a spam, malware, phishing and bot-friendly Ukranian hosting service. I got hammered last week from bots with IPs in the Inhoster blocks.)

85.255.112.0 - 85.255.127.255
195.95.218.0 - 195.95.219.255
195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255

4) Ban the IP block assigned to Intercage.

69.50.160.0 - 69.50.191.255