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eoc_Jason · #**893** 02-02-2010, 06:08 PM

While I don't use this mod (I coded my own), I do use the stopforumspam website and have been extremely pleased with its results.

I'm actually able to catch 99.9% of the bots before I even check the SFS website. I'm not going to post exactly how because then a spammer might decide to fix their code. However I *do* double-check with the SFS website.

If a certain threshold of matches exist, the user gets auto-banned. If only one or two things match, then they go to the coppa/moderation group. In which case I look over the account manually and see what hit and make a determination from there...

I don't know why someone is whining about a SUN IP address... Is it not beyond possibility that a user's computer there has been compromised? When I worked for Verizon, there were people there that should have never been allowed to touch a computer. They would get them infected with all sorts of crap on a weekly basis (and the IT people would be cussing and swearing as they would walk down the halls)...

I often get hack attemps and port scanning from Amazon IPs... Is Amazon doing it? No... But people paying for their cloud computing services is...

*sigh*

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