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Doughboy 10-02-2008 02:01 AM

Major spam today
 
Has anyone else noticed a big increase in spam bot postings and registrations today?

Today on two of my vb installations I've had 100+ posts from multiple spam accounts. Up until today I've never really got too much spam, because my boards aren't too big.

My boards @ jayscountry.ca pretty much never had a spam bot register or post, but today I've been flooded. 4 spam bots are online right now:
Quote:

Currently Active Users: 8 (5 members and 3 guests)
View Who's Online
Most users ever online was 63, 12-05-2007 at 01:23 PM.
Erik, Juscuptuppobe, plupierly, TetrySozy, vaniaandkicig

*** Image removed, not suitable on vB.org ***

Two spam accounts had 24 posts... easy enough to remove the posts and ban... but then there were 15+ spam accounts with 1 post.

Any suggestions for anti-spammage and mass account removal?

keith455 10-02-2008 04:29 AM

reCaptcha or Q&A... i'm trying Q&A for awhile.. seems like the normal image verification is to easy for bots to pass.. or

Dismounted 10-02-2008 04:49 AM

Some spam bots now use humans to decipher the CAPTCHA/Q&A, before automatically spamming a forum.

StonePilot 10-02-2008 02:10 PM

I got hit VERY hard yesterday. I turned on the email verification (had it turned off due to some email issues from my IP) and that alone seemed to cut down about 90% of it. The bots would still register, but not be allowed to post as they were'nt verified.

I don't see a Q&A functionality in the Human Verifcation system. Is that part of vb 3.7?

Dismounted 10-02-2008 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StonePilot (Post 1635628)
I don't see a Q&A functionality in the Human Verifcation system. Is that part of vb 3.7?

Yes

john102774 10-02-2008 02:25 PM

Yep, I'm getting spam on my site also, I wonder why? I'm looking for an anti spam hack. Also thinking about turning on email verification as well. Any other ideas on what I should do? :)

Dismounted 10-02-2008 02:33 PM

Definitely turn on email verification.

Lynne 10-02-2008 02:39 PM

There are several posts over on vb.com about this. I may have to go back to my two Registered Usergroup system (the first one is moderated and then users get promoted to the other one which is not).

Snkypete 10-02-2008 02:46 PM

I've seen a significant increase in the past 3 days. I've easily deleted 50 new accounts.

We have a simple way to prevent them from posting which doesn't require moderation - I'd be happy to share it privately (just in case they're watching this forum). So we don't get offensive posts, just a little admin work to delete their accounts.

unitedbreaks 10-02-2008 04:21 PM

I have too. Running 3.6.10

We've had almost 100 new registrations. I stopped the new registrations using NoSpam! Verification Mod.

I am looking for a mass delete/ban account based on criteria. Anyone know of one?


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