Die spammer die!

Hopefully the Recaptcha isn't broken. You'll get board spammers like you wouldn't believe.

ARgh, first real spammer that got through.

 

I really hope they arent getting that much smarter.

 

Most of the bots have OCR scanning software for the image verification, so one of the things done on this board is to change the background image of it to a normal photo, which would mess up the OCR software. This combine with email account confirmation prevents 99% of the spammers out there.

 

This one got through. Only thing I can think of is it was a human spammer. Esp since they filled out their profile. However, their IP is from Luxemburg.

ARgh, first real spammer that got through.

 

I really hope they arent getting that much smarter.

 

Most of the bots have OCR scanning software for the image verification, so one of the things done on this board is to change the background image of it to a normal photo, which would mess up the OCR software. This combine with email account confirmation prevents 99% of the spammers out there.

 

This one got through. Only thing I can think of is it was a human spammer. Esp since they filled out their profile. However, their IP is from Luxemburg.

 

Restrict IP's to the continental US...

ARgh, first real spammer that got through.

 

I really hope they arent getting that much smarter.

 

Most of the bots have OCR scanning software for the image verification, so one of the things done on this board is to change the background image of it to a normal photo, which would mess up the OCR software. This combine with email account confirmation prevents 99% of the spammers out there.

 

This one got through. Only thing I can think of is it was a human spammer. Esp since they filled out their profile. However, their IP is from Luxemburg.

 

Restrict IP's to the continental US...

 

Can you do that only on the registration? Maks was out of the country posting here, as was I when I was in Europe.

Correct. The only ban we can do by country is when logging in, not just registering. And once again, I logged on the forum when I was in Israel, Ukraine, stopped over in Poland and Germany. I am sure many others in Europe, as well as we had a member log in in Peru. =)

 

Its ok, one got by. Before doing the latest security enhancements, we had about 6 to 10 spammers get by the standard recaptacher (image verification), and not activate their email. Then we switch to manually activating accounts, but I hated doing that. So then went to the new, and still very little used image verification on different background photos, which throws off the OCR spam bots.

 

Next step in security, if we have to, will be to include registration questions, such as 2+ 2 = ?, or having 5 pictures and having a person to select say the dog out of a picture of 5 cats. stuff like that. But once again, this only deters bots. If you have a human spammer, very little you can do besides having to verify all accounts manually, and activating them on a one by one basis.

Max, don't 5 cats equal one dog ? :mrgreen:

Max, don't 5 cats equal one dog ? :mrgreen:

 

 

Only after 5 drinks. =)