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Old 10-15-2008, 09:06 PM
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Default Anyone else getting an increase in spam?
It looks like bots, it sounds like bots, but there are no links!

Its well strange, getting around 5 a week, signing up with mad email addresses and making 1 post, and thats it.

I must admit, 1 of them was quite clever, and it said has anyone seen 'something'

So I did a google search for that word, and then clicked on the top link, and it took me too some software site.

But I just dunno how they are slipping through, and I can't ban them, as some seem like genuine posts, as they are asking for help, or saying hello and complimenting the forum!!

Catch 22

Anyone else getting posts like this?

Quote:
Well... good site...
Wher search-page on your site.
Can you help to me!?

P.S. Anybody know about XRumer 5.0 software? Need a link to it...
The above was gthe software one, which when I done a search I did find it on other forums, but others are quite difficult to spot.

Thoughts?

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Old 10-15-2008, 09:10 PM
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Been going on about two weeks. Check this out. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183917
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Old 10-16-2008, 06:35 AM
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I've had a huge influx in what I think is human-powered spam. I.e. I'm fairly certain it's a human registering and posting and spamming. We're talking around 2-3 a day.
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Old 10-16-2008, 06:48 AM
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Used to get this when I ran phpBB. A bot would sign up and ask for help with something. A few days later, another bot would answer it with a link that was actually advertising.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:13 AM
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Its actually really clever how they do it.

Cheers noppid, but I was sure I already installed that. Will have another look
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We did recently, but we added a hack here on .org to prevent bot registration, it's worked so far.
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Old 10-16-2008, 03:08 PM
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See also: Forum Robot Spam Prevention Recommendations
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It's nice to know the vBulletin.org/.com staff actually helped people by posting that announcement (which is something I did not actually expect from the company). But in all, I haven't had that much spam recently, and I can probably count the spam members I've had to ban per week on one hand.
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Old 10-16-2008, 03:49 PM
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I had this spam a few weeks ago, there getting better.
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Old 10-17-2008, 05:42 PM
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I did on two of my forums I co admin on, then I installed a few of the spambot stop mods the best one of which is the VBstopforumspam mod which imho has been invaluable!
it has stopped 99% dead in their tracks.
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