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February 23rd, 2007, 03:50 AM
#1
Junior Member
Auto Web Spam Tool
I have recently come across a spam bot that can spam on guestbooks, forums of various types like PhpBB, YaBB and BulletinBoard.
The url is http://www.botmaster.net
I do not run a forum or guest book or anything like that but i might in the future.
How can this software be defeated with out manually deleting every thing it posts?.
EDIT: Disabled link on request
Last edited by crowchy; February 26th, 2007 at 05:09 PM.
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February 23rd, 2007, 05:01 AM
#2
Dont know.....
But I aint gonna click.
Maybe you can splain how it works...then I would be able to splain how to mitigate
MLF
Last edited by morganlefay; February 23rd, 2007 at 05:04 AM.
How people treat you is their karma- how you react is yours-Wayne Dyer
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February 26th, 2007, 07:05 AM
#3
Probably a good idea...
Originally Posted by morganlefay
Dont know..... But I aint gonna click.
Maybe you can splain how it works...then I would be able to splain how to mitigate MLF
Probably a fairly good idea to not visit that link; might be malformed anyway, reading between the lines on this thread; http://codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-104038.html
There are several PHPbb admin methods, some have been mentioned, and some of the original built-in ones don't really stop the various-spammers. The problem is they get on your member list even before they're approved and the list is spider-bait and the spam names/url's/email addresses are often offensive to legitimate forum members especially if the forum belongs to a group/company/etc. but is publicly available. There are several (3 or so) pages you can edit in PHPbb to slow them down a lot, and one more to stop them totally. But the internal admin tools are not really much good in PHPbb against spammers. Anyway, that's MHO.
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February 26th, 2007, 03:50 PM
#4
Hmm i would suggest that maybe the original link should be removed.
the site isn't what it's meant to be.
acidtone..
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February 26th, 2007, 04:04 PM
#5
Good point mate! I have disabled the clickys...............
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February 26th, 2007, 05:01 PM
#6
Junior Member
Dont you think that was a bit harsh neging me?.
I linked to the video which explained how the tool works, to me it seems very advanced and i want to know how a site would prevent an attack like this.
How could i of explained my thread properly with out linking to the video explaining how the attack works?.
I would of disabled the links asap if i was asked.
Also the links were still active,nihil you just deleted the text.
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February 27th, 2007, 03:06 PM
#7
I am still not clicking
MLF
How people treat you is their karma- how you react is yours-Wayne Dyer
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February 27th, 2007, 03:30 PM
#8
Hi Morgana~ they want you to pay $400~$450 for the botware
This is what I found on vBulletin's site:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/archi.../t-136604.html
Some ideas on how to deal with spam bots
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February 27th, 2007, 03:13 PM
#9
Does the bot in question do OCR? If not, that's 1 way to stop it. OCR engines are very sophisticated but also pretty pricey. Seems to me if spammers could afford it, they wouldn't have to spam.
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