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Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:23 am
by Subyroo
El_Freddo wrote:
Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:26 pm
Well it seems it’s happened again - spam bombing of the forum in a big way.

Only 800 and something new posts. All that I can see are Russian spam posts on the first page of new posts...

Not good for the mods.

So human getting through the security setting then using a program to bomb the forum?? At least when I used to bomb the forum it was a person at the keyboard and it was Subaru related :lol:

Cheers

Bennie
I agree Benny, it's almost not worth checking in here anymore, sadly.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:12 am
by L-Rex
Stay the course gents, I'm sure it will get sorted eventually.

I would suggest that membership is set to Admin/Mod approval, and set new members to require post approval for the first couple of posts.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 7:34 am
by TOONGA
you may want to delete this bot and ban the ip

https://ausubaru.com.au/memberlist.php? ... ile&u=9294

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:55 pm
by AndrewT
Yeah looks like 4 spam bots got in, they were probably initiated by an actual human for the initial account creation then left to run. I couldn't even delete them or their posts (unless I did them manually post by post) - they had over 5000 each and the little management interface I have just crashed out every time I tried. Had to get a guru to actually purge them out of the database.
Bit annoying but I can't really afford the time to switch it to a manual-approval process to constantly keep ontop of.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:24 am
by El_Freddo
Any chance a couple of the regular/"oldskool" users are able to take on these tasks?

That said, I'd like a walk through on how to deal with reported threads in my build section. Toonga had highlighted one but on my mobile all I could really do was close or delete the report.

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:10 am
by El_Freddo
I'm liking the removal of the 8 images limit of the old forum!

I just hope I haven't "abused" it... but it's also good not to have to wait 30 seconds to post the next bit of a trip report!

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:15 am
by L-Rex
El_Freddo wrote:
Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:24 am
Any chance a couple of the regular/"oldskool" users are able to take on these tasks?
Like you, I'm on here just about every day, and am more than happy to help out.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 4:06 pm
by AndyT
Ok, so the new anti spam level is a little annoying but obviously necessary.

What’s frustrating is that you need to manually type in your username, otherwise you show up as a guest - and cantgo back to edit this...

So as you can see, I’ve not put my correct username in... why does this feature have to be? This is another level of frustrating that I’m not keen on.

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 4:08 pm
by El_Freddo
Ok, so scrub the above... it helps if you’re logged in! :oops:

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:55 pm
by Subyroo
AndrewT wrote:
Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:55 pm
Yeah looks like 4 spam bots got in, they were probably initiated by an actual human for the initial account creation then left to run. I couldn't even delete them or their posts (unless I did them manually post by post) - they had over 5000 each and the little management interface I have just crashed out every time I tried. Had to get a guru to actually purge them out of the database.
Bit annoying but I can't really afford the time to switch it to a manual-approval process to constantly keep ontop of.
Andrew, Thanks for the time that you do put in, it is so nice to be able to frequent the Forum without seeing pages of spam posts. :)

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:54 pm
by RSR 555
I see a couple have popped up in the "Sandbox" section

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:56 pm
by El_Freddo
This “member” needs to be exiled and all their threads deleted - all spam!
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9341

150 new posts since yesterday. All on the first page were by this scum.

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:29 pm
by El_Freddo
Thanks @AndrewT and his crew for cleaning up that mess!

Forum looks awesome again ;)

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:21 am
by L-Rex
The mind boggles as to why they spend so much time spamming this forum. :roll:

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:01 pm
by El_Freddo
Ok, so I know about [bots] such as the google one that's always logged in, but what's a [spider]??

At the moment there's a "Biadu [spider]" in grey coloured font like the google [bot] is. I've not seen this before - anyone care to elaborate on what this could be (@AndrewT)?

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:45 pm
by pitrack_1
A 'spider' in this case is literally a web crawler from a search engine designed to catalogue/index everything. Baidu is the biggest Chinese search engine.

This should be able to be blocked in the robots.txt file (from my memory). It's possible the baidu one has not been listed.

You'll need to talk to the admin.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:02 pm
by wagonist
Just got a Spam PM from a member Sharonsteta about trying a new "captcha"

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:23 pm
by AndrewT
wagonist wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:02 pm
Just got a Spam PM from a member Sharonsteta about trying a new "captcha"
thanks, have shit-canned them.

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:29 pm
by El_Freddo
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=9385

This spammer - sports crap. And we thought Dibs couldn’t use grammar!

Cheers

Bennie

Re: Spam/other alerts

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:00 am
by El_Freddo
Some 800+ spam posts overnight with what seems to be all different usernames.

How did this happen?

Cheers

Bennie