The last two joiners on our memberlist appear to be spam entries.
"gonzalo Flowers" is a gibberish website and the other one is a US shopping mall. There are no BXs in the USA so he ain't one of us. More work for our mods I fear!
members who ain't!
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- Citroen Sorceror
- Posts: 1266
- Joined: Fri May 20, 2005 8:51 pm
- Location: straddling the channel
- My Cars: 2003- Passe-Partout 1.9 TGD estate
2005 Grolliffe Tizzydee turbo estate and sundry other BXs and Grace, a CX TRD.
2008 to 2023 - all sorts of stuff, some interesting
2024. TxD 1.9D estate. 'Wheelybin' - x 12
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- Over 2k
- Posts: 6417
- Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:36 pm
- Location: Fareham, Hants
- My Cars: Too many to list
- x 88
- Contact:
Surprises me that there isn't a filter in place to stop these artificial losers. We have one on OB, works well.
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1983(A) 16TRS (Rouge Valleunga)
1990(H) 16Valve (Rouge Furio)
CCC BX registrar: The national BX register - click to submit a car!
1983(A) 16TRS (Rouge Valleunga)
1990(H) 16Valve (Rouge Furio)
It's quite difficult to stop them. I moderate a forum for a band and have to delete on average one spam user a day.
I noticed yesterday that the AX forum has an "are you human" question as well as the image-based verification, maybe that works for them. It's probably a phpBB add-on, I'm going to have a look for it.
I noticed yesterday that the AX forum has an "are you human" question as well as the image-based verification, maybe that works for them. It's probably a phpBB add-on, I'm going to have a look for it.
Marty/jonkw, if you don't use it already I highly recommend the Starfoxtj phpBB toolkit. It lets you delete users and do a load more useful stuff in a much more logical fashion than phpBB's own front end will let you. You just have to give it a REALLY secure password as it's so powerful.
This is a description of all the stuff it can do:
http://starfoxtj.phpbbhelp.org/phpBB/toolkit/
And here's a support forum for the toolkit with downloads of the current release:
http://starfoxtj.no-ip.com/forum/
This is a description of all the stuff it can do:
http://starfoxtj.phpbbhelp.org/phpBB/toolkit/
And here's a support forum for the toolkit with downloads of the current release:
http://starfoxtj.no-ip.com/forum/
- docchevron
- The Immoderate half of the admin team
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- Location: A Bucket of Fish
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Re: members who ain't!
There's at least one BX in the states Tom, that I know of, theres bound to be more though.tom wrote: There are no BXs in the USA so he ain't one of us.
That said, spammers are tossers. I still cant work out what they hope to gain, Myspace is full of it, so it's not quite as bad here but nontheless, I think we should start exterminating these people CHOPPER style!
Smokes lots, because enough's enough already!
Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
The biggest worry IMO is that I suspect once they sign in and even before they are activated, they can look up profiles.
On a couple of the forums where I have access to the admin forum and have to manually activate the memberships, a few members when they fill in their details have ticked the option to allow public display of their e-mail address and I reckon these spamming toerags harvest these to spam and sell on.
I usually change that if I see it, however, I've yet to see a spammer who ticks the "yes" box to this, so.........................when they sign on, I make it so they can't access their own profiles and info and if they have what appears to be a genuine e-mail address, I tick the yes for them. That way, their mates can spam them and there ain't nuthin' they can do about it; called poetic justice I think. If they lodge a dodgy e-mail adress and it seems that the website is genuine, then I use the ISP in the website and transpose it into their e-mail addy. This way they get a chance to spam each other.
Alan S
On a couple of the forums where I have access to the admin forum and have to manually activate the memberships, a few members when they fill in their details have ticked the option to allow public display of their e-mail address and I reckon these spamming toerags harvest these to spam and sell on.
I usually change that if I see it, however, I've yet to see a spammer who ticks the "yes" box to this, so.........................when they sign on, I make it so they can't access their own profiles and info and if they have what appears to be a genuine e-mail address, I tick the yes for them. That way, their mates can spam them and there ain't nuthin' they can do about it; called poetic justice I think. If they lodge a dodgy e-mail adress and it seems that the website is genuine, then I use the ISP in the website and transpose it into their e-mail addy. This way they get a chance to spam each other.
Alan S
By the time you're old enough to know it all, you can't remember why you were learning.
This is for anyone who's had problems with bots on their phpBB, including BXClub... I've found this works a treat:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/6697
Implement it and an extra question is added to the registration process which can only be answered by humans (for example, a simple arithmetic question, a picture recognition question, or an advanced visual confirmation). We implemented it and since that time a few months ago, we haven't had a single bot sign up, whereas before we were getting new bots once a day. Definitely worthwhile if you genuinely want to stop the bots!
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/6697
Implement it and an extra question is added to the registration process which can only be answered by humans (for example, a simple arithmetic question, a picture recognition question, or an advanced visual confirmation). We implemented it and since that time a few months ago, we haven't had a single bot sign up, whereas before we were getting new bots once a day. Definitely worthwhile if you genuinely want to stop the bots!
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