Soma Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I think this forum now got infected somehow ... 619 users??? Yesterday it was 119. Also noticed the post few hours ago, that someone deleted here in the pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Yep, there was one spam bot, which I banned. Will look into users issue. Has something like this happened before Ryan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Actually those members aren't on members list at all: http://processwire.com/talk/index.php?action=mlist;sort=registered;start=0;desc (only on that infobox on front site). Probably caught in some kind of filter or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 I missed the spam post, thanks for taking care of that. We get 50+ new spam accounts per day, and the stopforumspam blacklist takes care of nearly all of them. But I do have to go in and delete all the filtered accounts every week or so. 600+ accounts means it's time for me to delete them (tomorrow). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Wow - that's a lot of junk accounts. Might be worth coding a simple Q&A challenge question into the registration form if there's an easy way to do that (or a mod for SMF already). I used on on one site and it cut spam registrations down to one or two a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Amazingly these are just the accounts that get through the 1) Captcha image (on most difficult-to-read setting), and 2) email verification. I don't know what the purpose is, but apparently a lot of forums get hit with these same accounts because stopforumspam.com nearly always recognizes them. A large amount of our spam accounts come from China for some reason. I don't think we have any legitimate current ProcessWire users in China (?) right now, but I'm hopeful we'll have lots in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Hmm. That is strange. Probably not spam bots and more likely something like these: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Paid black hat seo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soma Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 Hmm. That is strange. Probably not spam bots and more likely something like these: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Paid black hat seo. Was thinking the same recently. There's people working from home to spam forums, blogs, guestbooks and get paid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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