Hijackers

[Soma]

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.

[apeisa]

Yep, there was one spam bot, which I banned. Will look into users issue. Has something like this happened before Ryan?

[apeisa]

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?

[ryan]

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).

[Pete]

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

[ryan]

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.

[apeisa]

Hmm. That is strange. Probably not spam bots and more likely something like these: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Paid black hat seo.

[Soma]

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...