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03-11-2009, 04:44 PM | #21 |
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It's pretty nice to be able to look at my site statistics, and know that they reflect human activity.
When 21 "guests" were browsing the forum of our 16-team league, something wasn't right. I know that the Jamaica League is popular with all the cool kids, but let's be realistic. |
03-11-2009, 05:04 PM | #22 | |
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Yeah, spammers are a royal pain in the rear end. Glad to hear you were able to eliminate them from your site.
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03-13-2009, 07:17 AM | #24 |
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Just a quick update on the mini php script. It appears to slow down the speed at which the front page loads. So instead of adding it to the top of you index.php, add it to your php files that your registration pages use. This will keep your website running quickly while completely disallowing anyone using a proxy to register on your site.
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03-13-2009, 07:21 AM | #25 |
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I thought this was a thread about the great pitcher:
Ready for this? It is a good one. Warren Spahn.
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03-13-2009, 12:38 PM | #26 |
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EDIT: I don't get it.
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03-14-2009, 07:00 AM | #27 |
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I've updated my first post to include the files with better instructions and a revision to where I recommend placing the script.
If your website was getting bombarded with spammers, either posting ads or even just registering, that bombardment can be reduced to merely an occasional pebble tossed at you.
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03-14-2009, 09:38 PM | #28 |
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Warren Spahn : War on Spam
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03-15-2009, 01:10 AM | #29 |
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03-19-2009, 03:14 PM | #30 |
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After a week with this new system, I am pleased.
My problem never was with getting spammed. My forum got spammed a few times, but it was all concentrated in a limited amount of time; I think there was a period of about three days in which my forum had some bogus registrations, and some resulting spam posts. The thing I don't like is hacker 'bots crawling all over my site all the time. It used to be constant. For example, I'd always have numerous "guests" on my forum, and when I researched their IP addresses, 90% of the time, the "guests" were originating from hives of hacker activity: downtown San Jose, Costa Rica; shady precincts of Moscow; etc. The worst was when my site actually got hacked. We got hit at least twice, maybe even three times; I can't remember exactly. Both times they inserted an i-frame, which was a redirect to a site which launched Adobe Reader to insert a Trojan onto the victim's machine. My own computer got infected twice, both times with twext.exe, and the cleaning process was hellish. Plus, every time that one trojan got a foothold, it would invite two or three more in, right away. Even beyond these major attacks, every time that I simmed, and was uploading my files and reports after the sim, these foreign agents on my domain were doing things that would interrupt my uploads, opening and closing ports against my will, trying to work their evil. It was ridiculous. I installed Fidel's safeguards a week ago. I liked the first version best, with the scripts right on the php index pages, but it was too restrictive when some systems interfaced with it. So I moved the scripts to the forum registration page. In the first couple of days after installing everything, I was still getting 'bots, but they didn't stay long (before, they would linger). Now I don't see any at all. I figure that they're still trying, so I don't know if they're stopping by so briefly that I'm missing them, or what. But I'm not having the problems I was before. No one is fiddling with my ports; no one is interrupting my uploads. Fidel has really helped me out personally, and he has benefitted my league. I know that not all of what he shared with us was his own original material, but without him, I never would have gotten hold of it. I have a deep appreciation for Fidel's work, and I sincerely thank him. |
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I got the strangest email today (I admin the CBL forums and my email address is attached to the forum so that's why I got it):
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The thing is, why? Is it just a joke? I don't think our forum sends out unsolicited emails.
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03-20-2009, 05:54 AM | #32 |
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Thanks for the kind words, satchel. That is great to hear! In the first place I don't see why spammers would want to mess with such small gaming communities like we have with our online leagues. But it is nice that we can find answers to problems like this.
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Perhaps his own ISP sends those out, when it catches one of its members hacking, due to some law or legal requirement; and the ISP sends it out from the hacker's own account. |
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04-11-2009, 01:39 AM | #37 |
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Clear upswing in 'bot activity, these last few days.
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04-15-2009, 08:11 AM | #38 |
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Depending on what forum software you are using, you can add some noise to the confirmation code image. This deters a lot of bogus registrants. Keep an eye on your raw access logs as well. You can add these "bots'" IP's to your deny lists in the .htaccess file.
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Huge upswing in 'bot activity in the last week. I don't know if the April 1 trojan has infected so many computers that the hackers have a new army of zombies with which to do their work, or what. My site doesn't have many 'bot registrations—at this point, we've got enough layers of security to keep them from registering. I do like to keep them off of the site completely, though, if I can help it. |
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