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CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
Re: ForumPoster- No More
A good anti-spam mod would sort out most of the spamming issues.
A good anti-spam mod would sort out most of the spamming issues.
Re: ForumPoster- No More
Midnight is probably talking about the fact that there was a deal somewhere along the way that required you guys to keep a perm linkback to his site on that domain. Just set up a default.htm page with a dofollow link back to his site, shouldn't take but a few minutes.
As for anti-spam MODs, there are a few good ones:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=393503
Midnight is probably talking about the fact that there was a deal somewhere along the way that required you guys to keep a perm linkback to his site on that domain. Just set up a default.htm page with a dofollow link back to his site, shouldn't take but a few minutes.
As for anti-spam MODs, there are a few good ones:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=393503
Re: ForumPoster- No More
Yeah, dont take down a forum because of multiple bots. I helped one forum get out of some deep **** mess of spam, they had 1 MILLION + posts that were all spam. So:
1st. I pruned the forums, all posts that were not looked at for 4-5 days is a good start.
2nd. Pruned the users who had a post count of '0'.
3rd. Individually checked all forums for spammed posts, and pruned the forum individually.
That was all that was needed. 🙂
Yeah, dont take down a forum because of multiple bots. I helped one forum get out of some deep **** mess of spam, they had 1 MILLION + posts that were all spam. So:
1st. I pruned the forums, all posts that were not looked at for 4-5 days is a good start.
2nd. Pruned the users who had a post count of '0'.
3rd. Individually checked all forums for spammed posts, and pruned the forum individually.
That was all that was needed. 🙂
Re: ForumPoster- No More
You should have kept it open.
If you do re-open it...Do the following:
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Those are just some ideas..
You should have kept it open.
If you do re-open it...Do the following:
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- Definitely make it so they need to activate their account from an email your site sends.
-Add captcha and random questions&answers to your forum's registration page.
-Find lots of proxy IP lists and ban all of the IPs on it.
-Censor out swear words.
-If you are getting hit with pornographic images, disable images to users with a post count lower than 25 or something.
-Censor out any URLs that are advertising scams, etc etc.
-Permanently IP ban any spammer
-DEFINITELY prune out your whole board.
-Once you get a huge member base (that are all legit) and you are afraid of spam attacks you could make it so registrations need admin activation.
www.yourdomain.com/4um
instead of /forum
That should get rid of SOME spammers...Not all though.
Those are just some ideas..
Rich Edmonds
Seasoned Veteran
Re: ForumPoster- No More
May I ask why would you recommend someone rename their forum directory to a slang word for 'forum'? Lol. 😛 Bots don't really register different subfolders, they go through links too.sshare said:
Rich Edmonds
Seasoned Veteran
Re: ForumPoster- No More
That's when a sexy 301 redirect in your .htaccess comes to life 😉Nathan said:
Creativebot
Paragon
Re: ForumPoster- No More
Ban their IPs. It has to be the same people if they keep posting the same sites.
Ban their IPs. It has to be the same people if they keep posting the same sites.
There are forum spamming programs all over the places. A lot you have to pay for, some are private created and privately shared.
They most likely will just load up proxy lists in the program and the program will create accounts and start spamming. When an account gets an error (it is banned, or something) that account will be knocked off the list the program will spam from.
So there is no real way to stop it completely. Just add lots of anti spam features. Make it so posts can only be posted a certain amount of seconds. Make it like 32 seconds or an odd number (hard to explain why, but it will get rid of SOME spam attempts)>
Add random questions in your registration page.
Definitely find proxy lists and ban all the IPs you find. I used to have a list of 1 million proxies, but they are probably not in use anymore so banning them would really not do anything.
You could find some IPs you could ban here: http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
Just look for online proxy lists and ban all the IPs you find.
If your forum software has the feature then make it so your forum double checks everything about a user before they can post...This would include checking the logged in user's cookies, the browser they are running (compared to the one they logged in with), IP (in case it changed)...There are lots of options.
Anyways good luck!
PS. The 4um idea is just one thing that helped with my friend's site. He just deleted all the spammers off the member list, and sent out a mass email saying the site was at /4um instead of /forum. All but a few found the site easily. And the spammers were nowhere to be seen (until new spammers found the site)..
They most likely will just load up proxy lists in the program and the program will create accounts and start spamming. When an account gets an error (it is banned, or something) that account will be knocked off the list the program will spam from.
So there is no real way to stop it completely. Just add lots of anti spam features. Make it so posts can only be posted a certain amount of seconds. Make it like 32 seconds or an odd number (hard to explain why, but it will get rid of SOME spam attempts)>
Add random questions in your registration page.
Definitely find proxy lists and ban all the IPs you find. I used to have a list of 1 million proxies, but they are probably not in use anymore so banning them would really not do anything.
You could find some IPs you could ban here: http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
Just look for online proxy lists and ban all the IPs you find.
If your forum software has the feature then make it so your forum double checks everything about a user before they can post...This would include checking the logged in user's cookies, the browser they are running (compared to the one they logged in with), IP (in case it changed)...There are lots of options.
Anyways good luck!
PS. The 4um idea is just one thing that helped with my friend's site. He just deleted all the spammers off the member list, and sent out a mass email saying the site was at /4um instead of /forum. All but a few found the site easily. And the spammers were nowhere to be seen (until new spammers found the site)..
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
Changing the directory only works for a short while as they will soon find out your link to the forum again like they did to originally spam it.
If you add a few anti-spam things then it should stop 98% of it. Some are human spammers though and that is what we get targeted by but banning ip ranges of certain countries usually work to block these as the human spammers we have come from countries like Nigeria and so on so banning a whole ip range from countries like them isn't going to affect real traffic. We don't get much spam here any more. Maybe 1 or 2 topics a say at most. Usually converting videos to ipod format spam is what we get.
If you add a few anti-spam things then it should stop 98% of it. Some are human spammers though and that is what we get targeted by but banning ip ranges of certain countries usually work to block these as the human spammers we have come from countries like Nigeria and so on so banning a whole ip range from countries like them isn't going to affect real traffic. We don't get much spam here any more. Maybe 1 or 2 topics a say at most. Usually converting videos to ipod format spam is what we get.
Also when banning Proxy ip's Use the * symbol Example below.
When someone uses a proxy usually it just changes the last 3-4 digits in the ip so lets say your proxy domain is..
192.168.1.1 <-- Don't ban this as this is everyone's default local ip
Now lets say the proxy comes again but with the following IP
192.168.1.4
Now instead of just constantly banning ip's you can do the following.
192.168.*
this will make it so anything beyond the "168" will get banned examples...
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.100
All those will get banned just by typing that in.
🙂 Good Luck!
When someone uses a proxy usually it just changes the last 3-4 digits in the ip so lets say your proxy domain is..
192.168.1.1 <-- Don't ban this as this is everyone's default local ip
Now lets say the proxy comes again but with the following IP
192.168.1.4
Now instead of just constantly banning ip's you can do the following.
192.168.*
this will make it so anything beyond the "168" will get banned examples...
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.100
All those will get banned just by typing that in.
🙂 Good Luck!
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