Spammers

[Yogesh Sarkar]

This keeps getting interesting, just saw an ip address trying to register on my forum and it turns out it is a webserver at the planet and belongs to imageshack!

I guess it is some kind of spamming trojan/virus which is using people's computers and server to do this. I have already submitted an abuse report with imageshack, lets see how they respond to this.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by Thamelas

Same with me. They all say "Man" in the biography box, are spamming porn, and the IP's are from all over the world.

I'm getting Man in the biography box and test in some of the location boxes. the rest are around the globe.

[dougeetx]

Same here...on several of my boards...

[AsmodeusLore]

Same issue here.

Plenty of new spam, but practically none before today.

I'm hoping to avoid the timezone mod. I really don't want to get into an arms race with spammers. If i block timezone, they'll change to a different timezone, then i need a new method.

[TMH63]

I just installed the timezone hack. And I want to lock my forums down GOOD! I could care less about any timezone outside the US or Canada, so my question is....... Will entering these as you see them work fine? All the example gives in the software is,

Example: 1,3,-2

-12, -11, -4:30, -3, 12, -1, +1, +2, +3, +3:30, +4, +4:30, +5, +5:30, +5:45, +6, +6:30, +7, +8, +9, +9:30, +10, +11, +12



Thanks!

[dougeetx]

I've turned on the Question/Answer human verification. It seems to have stopped them for now.

[jkcerda]

wow, many trying to register, I have registrations off untill I install the MODS

[CP,]

Spam is on the rise now... just yesterday and today we have been getting an influx of over 30 spam registrations from russia.... and the email they register with always resolves to gmail or some other free email service.

We have email verification and they seem to also verify their email accounts some how and spam...

[Meestor_X]

They are also getting by the "Moderate New Members" setting in AdminCP.
As well, there seems to be some evidence that they are "bypassing" image verification AND the Question/Answer.

See here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...69#post1631469

[ShadMan]

Those of you using cPanel to block, are you using the IP Deny tool? If so, are you entering each individual range from the zone tables on the IPDeny site? My cPanel will only let me enter one range at a time, and there are tons for China alone. I can copy the entire list into my firewall deny table directly, but my firewall crashes after about 1000 entries or so, which is just enough to block China and Russia maybe. Maybe I should just set a Deny All and put the USA IPs in the Allow.

FYI - I had over 50 spam registrations today, with only 1 prior to today in the 4 months my forum has been open. I enabled ReCaptcha about 45 minutes ago, and none since.