[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by sydude

Andrew, in the past few days I've been experiencing one of these 'bots' coming to my site and generating a whole bunch of 'report bad link' emails. Yesterday I went into LDM permissions and unchecked Unregistered Users abilities to report bad links, but today it happened again. Here's a snapshot of what was sent to me:



And on and on. Obviously junk. Do you have any thoughts on how they did it again? Or could it just be a remnant of an earlier session they had access to? If they did do it again, what have I missed to prevent this from happening?

S

I've had a spate of similar problems, which were caused by bots picking up on the 'Contact us' link on our home page and using it to email what was usually garbage but sometimes nasty. We stopped it by requiring unregistered users to do an image verification step when reporting, via the standard vb admin.

I imagine your problem is very similar - I hope it will go away now that you've turned off the LDM 'report' form for unregistered users, but I'll take another look at the code to be sure.