Westside Steve Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Can't we ban the IP address of the spam buttholes? I can delete posts from my page but not keep them off. It's going on here too. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 I sent the mods a report offering our help, if we had the auth to delete these garbage spams. It might be a situation of them hiding their true IP address, by bouncing though (unauthorized) random servers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosar_For_President Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Simple fix, change links to NO-FOLLOW. I told them that a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Can't we ban the IP address of the spam buttholes? I can delete posts from my page but not keep them off. It's going on here too. WSS I agree. This spamming is getting out of control. Something needs to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted January 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hey looks like somebody hosed down the joint. Good. Now if we can block the ips of these asswipes. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. T Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 It looks a lot better. Nice and clean! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATENEARS Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 We were the target of a massive raid. We spent the morning combing the membership base and ridding of over 200 registrants. Can't disclose how we targeted them all and routed them out, but we did some major defense this morning. Can't stop'em completely as they continue to create new IP addresses and such, but we have some basic measures in place to expose them and we can always go the full nine yards if need be. Sorry about the distrubance. When you are a highly ranked open forum, it attracts these kinds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATENEARS Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 From our Hosting account: We thought everyone might find a few statistics from our Spam Monitoring Service interesting. Since the rate of spam registrations has greatly increased since the first of the year we are of course seeing greater activity on the service. All stats are since 1 January 2011 to 13 January 2011. •The spam service has processed 300,000 requests and the rate is accelerating as more people are activating the service since spamming has increased over the last couple weeks. •About 30% were marked as spam accounts and therefore prevented from registering on IP.Board's that use the service. This is of course a much higher percentage then even a few weeks prior to the influx of spam registrations. •The service has "learned" from the activity and permanently black listed about 5000 emails and IP addresses. •Of those the service blocked, about 10% were due to IP.Board administrators and moderator using the "flag as spam" feature which tells the service that an account is from a spammer. So keep reporting! It's our hope that Google's reCAPTCHA service will soon be improved. In the mean time be sure to follow the tips in our announcement to prevent spam registrations. We can never 100% stop spam but our Spam Monitoring Service is another tool to help prevent registrations from impacting your community. The service is a free IPS Extra for anyone with an active IP.Board license or IPS Community Hosting client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 With my 30 yr background in programming... I think I'll retrain into cyber security... because Stan, nor Steve, nor K or T ever hired me as their chauffeur... or, I will stick with farming and retire in 5 years... Seriously, those numbers are amazing - that's fascinating stuff - to defend against all that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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