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#11 2011-04-28 12:22
- den4b
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Re: Fighting spam bots
A dedicated thread for Reporting spam and abuse was created.
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#12 2011-04-29 10:48
- ceomixcms
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Re: Fighting spam bots
As an option to do a couple of questions during registration.
Very good idea to ban due to inactivity during the first day.
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#13 2011-04-30 07:27
- SafetyCar
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Re: Fighting spam bots
Maybe you want to look at http://www.google.com/recaptcha
It looks interesting to me. For example:
IP Address Detection
Our service also includes IP address filtering and detection. If we determine that a given IP address is successfully solving too many CAPTCHAs in a certain period of time, the address is immediately flagged for review. In addition, by providing CAPTCHA services to many customers we obtain a global view of spamming attacks, allowing us to react quickly to security threats.
If this software has helped you, consider getting your pro version. :)
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#14 2011-04-30 11:55
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Re: Fighting spam bots
I have updated the forum code and finally I installed reCAPTCHA mod.
Let's see now how this will affect activity of spammers.
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#15 2011-05-09 11:58
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Re: Fighting spam bots
Installed another mod: Spam IP Check - uses global black lists to prevent known spammers from registering.
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#16 2012-09-08 05:44
- narayan
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Re: Fighting spam bots
How about using a graphical captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) with distorted non-dictionary words and lines and other noise added to defeat machine-OCR attempts?
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#17 2012-09-08 07:47
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Re: Fighting spam bots
I think that probably we are talking about human spamers, in that case the captchas doesn't work.
I think the only way to get over them is some kind of confirmation MOD, but it's too much work only for Dennis, maybe if the rest of us (any "confirmed-people") could help...
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#18 2012-09-08 09:09
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Re: Fighting spam bots
oh I took the term "bot" in the title to mean robot techniques.
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