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DigiTan
Unregistered HyperCam 2
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I just deleted a spambot topic from Calculator Tech Support that seems to have gotten past our bot trap. http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=6885&hl=
Is this the first bot to slip through the cracks since our bot trap was set up? Or have we just been able to keep up with them all along? |
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DarkerLine
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Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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I'm fairly sure it's the first one. It's slipped through because it didn't post in the announcements forum like all the other ones did.
Let's see if it was a stray or the first of many more, and what we can do about it if it's the latter.
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Weregoose
Authentic INTJ
Super Elite (Last Title)
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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I'm opening this back up.
Aside from the "aaaaaaaaaaaa" spambot (now gone), one other entity has been getting through the forum's filter: its messages have consisted of essay portions interspersed with links to RPG power-leveling sites, and these were all posted by either 58.17.146.142 or in the range 123.145.* (which encompasses the Chongqing province under China Unicom). I just now blocked these addresses from viewing the forums. This will likely do away with our existing source of spam.
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Weregoose
Authentic INTJ
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Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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| "!!over*!!" banned and four accounts deleted. |
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Xeda112358
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Joined: 19 May 2009
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Okee dokey, there have been quite a few more spambots posting-- enough that there was one week where I deleted in the realm of 200 spam posts (sometimes 40 a day). I wanted to run my current technique for handling spambots/posts:
Most of the bots have the number 143040 recurring. For example, the Yahoo account, Likes, and Skype account are 143040.
When I see these I typically flag them as spammers even if they have yet to spam.
When a spam post is submitted and I come across it, I delete the post (not just remove like I used to do) and flag the account as a spam account.
Is this okay? Also, I may as well point out that I may or may not have internet until mid January after this week...
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Weregoose
Authentic INTJ
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| Posted: 25 Dec 2011 01:43:12 am Post subject: |
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| I just banned three spambots that made over a hundred posts on Dec 21st. I'll keep a better vigil over the report system for a while. |
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Xeda112358
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| In the past week, one bot made 372 posts in the 13 hour period from when I went to sleep until I got done with my morning classes. Another one made over 150 posts in a similar time frame. I was also informed by another user that a spambot posted on their wall and and I had a spambot join me as one of my friends. |
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