dodgy forum users

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » August 15th, 2007, 11:19 am

I've noticed that a lot of new forum users appear to be porn related, and a lot of the site links appear to be to porn sites. Is this an issue? Do we need to clean off dodgy looking forum users?

http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/memberlist.php

Post by **limbo** » August 15th, 2007, 11:33 am

This kind of attack is a well known issue.

We have already adapted a method for it - a second visual confirmation (on the first post of registered user). This keeps the forums clean from post coming from such attackers.

However

the registration of drug-porn-medic-gambling etc users cannot be avoided.

Last month I've deleted about 1200 inactive accounts from database...
But still need a good tool to block registration on machine based attacks, without making the new user registration too complicated

Any ideas?

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » August 15th, 2007, 11:40 am

As long as you mods are aware of it, then that's OK. Hope you find a way to stop them registering.

grantb3 · Post by **grantb3** » March 11th, 2008, 12:05 am

If you haven't already, you might want to look at the RAC mod. I put it on my forum and my spam has really died down. Same with dead-end users.

Post by **limbo** » March 16th, 2008, 11:49 am

grantb3 wrote:If you haven't already, you might want to look at the RAC mod. I put it on my forum and my spam has really died down. Same with dead-end users.

Thanks for the tip. I have applied the mod!

Hopefully the fake registrations will stopped by this mod

grantb3 · Post by **grantb3** » March 17th, 2008, 4:46 pm

Did it help? You should notice almost immediately. There is also a suggestion to apply the MOD that hides the Memberlist because that's why so many of the spammers show up (their website shows up on the memberlist). More here:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 1&t=427852

Post by **limbo** » March 23rd, 2008, 8:54 pm

grantb3 wrote:Did it help? You should notice almost immediately. There is also a suggestion to apply the MOD that hides the Memberlist because that's why so many of the spammers show up (their website shows up on the memberlist). More here:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 1&t=427852

I can still see Spam users

.... (maybe the number is not so big)
I'll try to use your second suggestion asap.

Thank you for your help anyway

grantb3 · Post by **grantb3** » March 27th, 2008, 12:17 am

Looks good to me. All of the registered users since Mar 16 seem legit (at least they are not spamming). You could probably go ahead and purge anyone that has never posted on the board. There is another MOD (User List) that makes it quite an easy task.

Post by **limbo** » March 27th, 2008, 10:36 pm

grantb3 wrote:Looks good to me. All of the registered users since Mar 16 seem legit (at least they are not spamming). You could probably go ahead and purge anyone that has never posted on the board. There is another MOD (User List) that makes it quite an easy task.

Yes you are right grantb3 the registered users after the mod are not spammers. The Mod is great!

Now the only thing is to remove the old spamming accounts and clear the database.

thanks a million