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Hey folks,

Just a note to say thanks to those of you who reported the posts, and to RubberToe who assisted in cleaning up the hundreds of spams posts and dozen-plus users we got hit with yesterday. Feel free to fire me an email or text if you encounter that again, so we can act quickly and nip it in the bud.

Cheers,
chalmers

For some background...

We used to get a lot of spammers / spam bots and it was difficult to manage. We were using the Google eCaptcha plugin but it wasn't effective so then I decided to set the board to admin verification for new signups. However for every new signup I had to determine what was a spam bot vs a real user. That became difficult to manage since the new registrants list was flooded with the bad guys.

Between last fall (IIRC) and this May I fell behind in verifying new users so I decided to try one of the other spam protection plugins - question and answer with 3 rotating questions and specific capitalization. I'm surprised how well it worked... at first.

Well it seems that yesterday morning that was beat by the spammers. I'm surprised it lasted that long.

I've set the board back to admin verification for new users until I'm happy with another spam protection plugin.

Cheers,
-Rob

Thanks for your hard work once again!

There are several more registered spam bots... the stupid admin UI of phpBB doesn't just let me list registered users for bulk operations. It's going to take a while to remove them - sometime when I'm not at work. One of them just PM'd me a link to its captcha buster software! LOL.

So, we may see some new spam from old bots. This one registered earlier this morning.

That's a shame, I was hoping to look through some of those threads this weekend

Naboo wrote:That's a shame, I was hoping to look through some of those threads this weekend

Don’t worry, I saved all the links, will send them to your work address.


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