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Title: Spammers
Post by: duccarlos on November 12, 2008, 05:12:22 PM

Are you guys being spammed by BOTS yet?

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: ducpainter on November 12, 2008, 05:21:23 PM

Quote from: duccarlos on November 12, 2008, 05:12:22 PM
Are you guys being spammed by BOTS yet?

Yup...

Wasn't as bad today.

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: duccarlos on November 12, 2008, 05:56:56 PM

Unfortunately they are targeting all the SMF 1.1.x boards.

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: ducpainter on November 12, 2008, 06:01:19 PM

Quote from: duccarlos on November 12, 2008, 05:56:56 PM
Unfortunately they are targeting all the SMF 1.1.x boards.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=273816.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=273816.0)

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: duccarlos on November 13, 2008, 06:30:41 AM

Yep! Saw that yesterday. We are now screening for spammers when they register.

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: ducpainter on November 13, 2008, 06:35:25 AM

Quote from: duccarlos on November 13, 2008, 06:30:41 AM
Yep! Saw that yesterday. We are now screening for spammers when they register.

We just installed a mod called re-captcha to replace the built in captcha system.

It's much more difficult to decipher.

Title: Re: Spammers
Post by: duccarlos on November 13, 2008, 07:18:50 AM

Thanks, I'll look into installing it.

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