Got heavily spammed today, need advice!
 

Hello

Didn't check on my forum all day, I got home and logged in and there were about a dozen guests

I immediately noticed that I had almost a thousand new posts!

It was an a-z of spam ads

I immediately shut down the forums while I irradiated the spam.

It grew to the point of 30 connections at once, they were coming from four or five different providers, including amazons hosting division...

I blocked the class c address blocks of the offenders, then I turned on moderation for new people...

I don't run my own server but the server I'm on has anti spamming software setup and it's active for my forum...

I guess I'm trying to see if there is something I could have done to minimize the chance of this happening again, and wish I could go back to just doing the email verification vs the fully moderated mode.

Matthew

You should read the post on my site, I have followed it, and so fare no spam. I know a few other sites that have been following the same thing, for quite some time, and no spam. http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/50...g-Spam-Is-Over

Thank you. Those sound great...being on a shared server can I still install mods like that?

Matthew

Yes, there should be no problems running those in a shared environment, I would download the lists in that thread, and use those in the mods. :)

Ok I'll have those four mods installed probably by the end of the day tomorrow...

Do I dare go back to up moderating users and just trusting the mods+the email reply system?

I hate the moderated mode because I feel that a large percentage of users will never come back...

Matthew

I so far have not had the need to moderate users.

This is a good one https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633

Yes that is one of the mods in the post I linked him to. :)

See it now what about spam o matic dont see it in your list

I have not had a need for that mod, with the ones that are installed, there is nothing for Spam O Matic to do.