It Bites

Takahashi · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 158

Just noticed that the last 63 member registrations are all spambots!!! Shocked

Doesn't the site have a filter to prevent this? Maybe one of those annoying-but-effective "captcha" things? Just curious, is all... Smile

Dena · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 12:00 pm Post subject:

No, there's no filter, as I think this forum software is a fairly old version. Bat and I tend to spend a goodly chunk of time daily clearing the spammers...!
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Takahashi · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 158

Sounds familiar... our shop PC has a woefully ineffective spam filter on its email client. My first 15 minutes every morning consists of gutting all the crap mails that form about 90% of everything we receive. Rolling Eyes

Dena · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:14 pm Post subject:

Yup - definitely sounds familiar....! Laughing

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batchain · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:01 pm Post subject:

Crikey! The spam seems to have stopped. Normally get 100 + emails per day (as do the rest of the mods). Not had any for some time now. Happy days!

B xx Very Happy

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Gman · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 443 Location: Coventry

Hmmm, I'm not sure why (because we haven't changed anything) but the captcha type thingy has been enabled on the registration page. This is good because it's killed the spam but is bad because it doesn't work properly and you can't actually see the letters to put in the verification box. So basically no one can register!

We're not sure why it doesn't work but presumably this was the reason why it was switched off before we took maintenance of the site and forum.

Bat...do you want me to switch it back off again? It does mean the spam will probably kick in again.

I'll get the guys to have another look at why it doesn't work and see if we can figure it out. When we took a look before it seemed to be linked to an out of date or modified template.
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batchain · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject:

Dena · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject:

If genuine bods can't register then it makes sense to disable it. I can do that (I think)...
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Gman · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 443 Location: Coventry

I see you've done it Dena.

We'll have another shot at fixing the problem again tomorrow or Friday, if you're ok with that?

We may need to upgrade the forum and have a new theme.
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Tanjobidesu · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 726 Location: Romsey

Dena · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject:

Dena · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:03 pm Post subject:

GMan - any developments on this yet? Spammers are increasing by the day....! Confused

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