Steph,
the solution you propose looks good indeed... I'll try that next week
fred
Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
This forum gets more and more unreadable.
Please set up some moderators to delete spam as the first step. And prevent SPAM. Is there no strong CAPTCHA to registrate to this forum?
Please set up some moderators to delete spam as the first step. And prevent SPAM. Is there no strong CAPTCHA to registrate to this forum?
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
I just don't understand how bots can create user's in the forum... The user creation form has two security questions...
fred
fred
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
Well to be honest the first question ist the easiest:
Are you a spam bot ʔ: *
Please answer "No" to proceed to the registration.
All is in plain text so all bots can acutally read what you want from them. Every better bot can answer this question.
The second one is a random question also in plain text like:
How many legs do you have ?:
This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots.
Even this question is a common one in php forums. So I have to guess that most bots have those in their databases.
Don´t underestimate modern spam bots. Even moderate picture based captcha´s can be solved. Thats the reason why all new captchas are even difficult to read by humans...
I would suggest a bunch of measures to prevent spam. Implement modern captchas, filter messages by users as suggested in an early post and let some moderators delete spam messages and users!
Are you a spam bot ʔ: *
Please answer "No" to proceed to the registration.
All is in plain text so all bots can acutally read what you want from them. Every better bot can answer this question.
The second one is a random question also in plain text like:
How many legs do you have ?:
This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots.
Even this question is a common one in php forums. So I have to guess that most bots have those in their databases.
Don´t underestimate modern spam bots. Even moderate picture based captcha´s can be solved. Thats the reason why all new captchas are even difficult to read by humans...
I would suggest a bunch of measures to prevent spam. Implement modern captchas, filter messages by users as suggested in an early post and let some moderators delete spam messages and users!
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Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
en effet je ne me souvenais pas des questions mais celles ci ne sont pas difficiles à contourner
Vous êtes une société, vous avez donc un conseiller juridique et comme le SPAM envoit toujours vers le même site, il pourrait peut être les contacter pour les prévenir d'éventuelles poursuites ?
Sinon vous nommez des modos, ou vous trouvez des questions avec des réponses moins évidentes
NE pas oublier la solution proposée aussi qui est de devoir avoir 5 posts avant de pouvoir mettre un URL
Vous êtes une société, vous avez donc un conseiller juridique et comme le SPAM envoit toujours vers le même site, il pourrait peut être les contacter pour les prévenir d'éventuelles poursuites ?
Sinon vous nommez des modos, ou vous trouvez des questions avec des réponses moins évidentes
NE pas oublier la solution proposée aussi qui est de devoir avoir 5 posts avant de pouvoir mettre un URL
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
Hi,
I just implemented some of Michel Kraemer features.
Thanks for pointing this out !
fred
http://www.netatmo.com
I just implemented some of Michel Kraemer features.
Thanks for pointing this out !
fred
http://www.netatmo.com
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
J'ai eu le meme probleme sur certains forums que j'administre.fpotter wrote:I just don't understand how bots can create user's in the forum... The user creation form has two security questions...
Je pense que dans certains cas ils exploitent des faille de securite...
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Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
Obviously, they are coming back.
It could come from the regular registration form, through other registration API, through security holes...
Any way, the best way is probably to have a broad spectrum policy
- Review registration form
- Patch PHP and MySql
- Identify moderators
- Review registered users to track bots
Regards,
QQ.
It could come from the regular registration form, through other registration API, through security holes...
Any way, the best way is probably to have a broad spectrum policy
- Review registration form
- Patch PHP and MySql
- Identify moderators
- Review registered users to track bots
Regards,
QQ.
Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
+1
please I have enough kitchens now
please I have enough kitchens now
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Re: Can You Do Anything About SPAM?
You're right falkio... There is an issue when you need to add a "s" to the kitchen you own...