Dan F Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 My admins are getting really angry about all the spambots that are joining our forums and they suggested that I limit registrations to only allow emails from hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. I know this currently isn't a feature but could something like this possibly be implemented before the 2.2 release? Or maybe there is a feature that I'm overlooking that will stop the spam bots from joining my forums.If it isn't possible to get into 2.2, then you can move this to feature suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 well just ban the email address they use thou wild cards in admin cp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan F Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 well just ban the email address they use thou wild cards in admin cp.I've been doing that. But there are so many email addresses out there that I can't possibly ban them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Elliott Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Easy.. Admin Validation for the win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan F Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 But still, there will be so many accounts being registred. I just want to stop them before they can even make an account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolakTom101 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Wildcard Banning E-Mails and User then Admin Vailtion is the way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Not everyone uses hotmail, yahoo, or gmail though. And sometimes some of the un-ruly members can come from aol. Doing this would be closing your site to a lot of potential membership.The new security image in 2.2 should eliminate bots though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan F Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 True. I've even told them that... but its not hard to get an email from one of those providers.Meh. Forget it. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 You do realize that yahoo, hotmail, and gmail are easy and free for the spammers to get too, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete T Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 nope but u will stop them sooner or later just turn email vaildate on and ban emails it will best way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolakTom101 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I would ban all AOL and AIM e-mail adresses because to many of those e-mails never get to my members and I always have to try and resend them and see of they get them. When doing that make sure you put in the Registration Terms & Rules box that u do accept registrations from those adresses also and put that in bold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 And as I said before, spam bots are not going to be a problem after you upgrade to 2.2 because the security image has been updated. The only way for them to spam you is if they physically had people register on your site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolakTom101 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I think this topic should now be carryed over to IPS Beyond we have gone off-topic so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Prowler Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 I get so many peeps spamming my sites lately(last few months) that I have had to shorten the validation time and on some boards use both email/admin validation. I constantly add the spammers email from failed validations to my ban list as well as the wildcard but there are so many email providers this doesn't necessarrily stop the spammers from trying to register. (I even installed Fussia's mod for Anti-Spam(which actually has helped on one of my boards...adding it to others soon! :thumbsup: I would suggest his mod be considered for inclusion into IPB for a future release :cool: ) Getting back to topic.....it is a real pain to constantly add email,name, ip info to the ban filters since the spammers constantly try to register....havinbg more than one board this can become tedious! :( I am sure the new anti-spam image code restriction will work well in 2.2 but that only seems to cover posting and not registration...or am I missing something?There should be something that restricts spammers from registering based on things they put in thier profile(which they always do so peeps can google them....like thier name or some number(89745)-if IPB could catch that and automatically add them to the ban list(ip, email, wildcard and member name) and then delete the validating account I would find this option most useful :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Yay, free advertising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.D. Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 And as I said before, spam bots are not going to be a problem after you upgrade to 2.2 because the security image has been updated. The only way for them to spam you is if they physically had people register on your site.so someone makes a single page where they JUST have to type in the captcha code on multiple sites by hand...then the bot takes over. easier than going in and posting right? if you have open registration you just have to keep banning them <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will L. Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Yay, free advertising!damn good mod you made man :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krang Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Ah, wildcards are working... I never thought og trying this. There are mainly two domains where these spambots come from so I can whipe them out. The other ones... well they get banned as normal -.-I'm looking forward to the 2.2 images in the registration... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cojo Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 And as I said before, spam bots are not going to be a problem after you upgrade to 2.2 because the security image has been updated. The only way for them to spam you is if they physically had people register on your site.Umm, time to come back down to reality. Companies like Yahoo have invested millions of dollars in CAPTCHA research. They haven't been able to completely stop bots while keeping the image simple enough for humans to solve. Sorry, version 2.2 won't either. It'll depend on whether someone has an interest in developing an algorithm to break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why Two Kay Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Some bots only know how so submit specific data through POST. One thing that I did back on another forum was make a CAPTCHA only page, then have the "Register" link go there. Once that is complete, you will get to go to the regular registration page (with the normal CAPTCHA) and register from there. It wasn't done very well, and the validation for the first CAPTCHA wasn't that good, but it stopped almost all of the spambots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Umm, time to come back down to reality. Companies like Yahoo have invested millions of dollars in CAPTCHA research. They haven't been able to completely stop bots while keeping the image simple enough for humans to solve. Sorry, version 2.2 won't either. It'll depend on whether someone has an interest in developing an algorithm to break it.I beg to differ. The old captcha was very very easy. Bots go all over the net just to post on random boards. I know for 100% fact the new captcha works because I started getting it bad on my forum as well, and patching it solved the problem completly. I'm not saying technology will not advance for them to be able to do it in the distant feature, but as of now the new captcha stops them, and will for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Barrie Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I beg to differ. The old captcha was very very easy. Bots go all over the net just to post on random boards. I know for 100% fact the new captcha works because I started getting it bad on my forum as well, and patching it solved the problem completly. I'm not saying technology will not advance for them to be able to do it in the distant feature, but as of now the new captcha stops them, and will for a long time.Except that I have never before the installation of 2.2 on this forum seen spam here, and after it was installed ... bang! Porn spam. And the spammer had a registration date the same day and all. It is of course quite possible that the new image is too close to another (already beaten) CAPTCHA (I imagine with a ranking like IPS has in search engines, it attracts some of the big guns). And it's quite possible that the CAPTCHA isn't being beaten on your site because it's not what the crawler is expecting to read on an IPB installation, and therefore can't determine what it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Then you must not have seen the spam posted here before the staff deleted it, because I remember seeing spam posted here pre-2.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Elliott Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 My only problem are the Russians, and the *@*.info websites, I don't get yahoo, or hotmail spammers thankfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Prowler Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 ^I have this issue too on my boards :rolleyes: ...trying the *@*.info wildcard on one site to see if it reduces the spammers. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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