Hi All,<br /><br />I been invaded by porn bot spammers on my PhP nuke forums hosted by TCH. This is really NOT cool since my members for this video game are pre-teens/teens ect. I understand that they see this type of crap anyway on tv and online but I dont want it to be from my forums.<br /><br />I've already enabled registered users to post. Now they seem to make accounts too. Thier IP changes all the time as well.<br /><br />Suggestions?<br /><br />Thanks<!--content-->
I am not familiar with php-nuke, but does it have some sort of captcha (images with codes you need to verify before a post is submitted)? If so, enable it.<!--content-->
Most major forums captcha has been cracked. I have seen a program at work which not only registers an account on a list of forums it even checks the email address supplied for validation emails and activates the accounts. This is why I stopped using phpBB and now use SMF with a custom captcha instead of the one they supply.<!--content-->
It's getting pretty bad when spammers will go through so much trouble.<!--content-->
Actually I've seen the program running and it's so simple it's scary. It will even make the email account for you on places like mail.ru. You then just load a list of URLs (grabbed from google usually) and leave it to it. Here is the video of it in action <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm">www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm</a><!-- w --> the site belonging to the moron that made it.<!--content-->
Ok first of all if you are using the phpnuke version in fantastico. Then that is your first mistake. Second I also use phpnuke but a very highly modded version. And <b>I DO NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM</b>. In fact anything that is even close to a suspicious sign up and my nuke will not allow it. Until I approve them. Now if you would like to know more about my version that I use please feel free to PM me. As the version I use is also associated with another host and putting up a link here is a no no.<!--content-->
I am not familiar with php-nuke, but does it have some sort of captcha (images with codes you need to verify before a post is submitted)? If so, enable it.<!--content-->
Most major forums captcha has been cracked. I have seen a program at work which not only registers an account on a list of forums it even checks the email address supplied for validation emails and activates the accounts. This is why I stopped using phpBB and now use SMF with a custom captcha instead of the one they supply.<!--content-->
It's getting pretty bad when spammers will go through so much trouble.<!--content-->
Actually I've seen the program running and it's so simple it's scary. It will even make the email account for you on places like mail.ru. You then just load a list of URLs (grabbed from google usually) and leave it to it. Here is the video of it in action <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm">www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm</a><!-- w --> the site belonging to the moron that made it.<!--content-->
Ok first of all if you are using the phpnuke version in fantastico. Then that is your first mistake. Second I also use phpnuke but a very highly modded version. And <b>I DO NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM</b>. In fact anything that is even close to a suspicious sign up and my nuke will not allow it. Until I approve them. Now if you would like to know more about my version that I use please feel free to PM me. As the version I use is also associated with another host and putting up a link here is a no no.<!--content-->