I designed a new forum, it is online since 2 weeks or so. But now the problem: since the last 4 days, someone is creating a new account every single day, adding porn movies, porn adverts etc Not funny anymore. I ban him every single day and every time again, I put a ban on his IP too, but the last number of the IP is always different Can someone help me? What can I do more?
Well, you can keep banning them OR you can turn on administrator validation to approve the account OR require the person who registers to validate the account via e-mail.
I'll try the last option, thank you Zivem... It's just not funny anymore, the other members aren't happy about it either
How about a link? Are these good p0rn sites? I might want to see some of this stuff. Ok, you said that the last number is always different. Do you have Cpanel installed on your server? If so, Cpanel has an IP block feature. You can enter a partial IP address and block the network. Check the cpanel forums for more inforamtion on that feature. Also, what forum software are you using? Does the person have to confirm their email address when they register? Are you sure this is not a spam bot? Does your forum software have an block IP feature? If it does, you can sometimes enter a * for a variable. To block 172.1.1.0 network, enter 172.1.1.* and that will block all IPs from the last range of numbers. Do you have captcha enabled to keep the bots out? What other measures have you taken? You have asked a good question, but to supply a reasonable answer, more information is needed.
A good forum is also a big chance why you may be getting hit. Supposing your software has the mods there are spam prevention tools.
This happened to me too. I'd ban them but its like have and endless supply of computers and IP addresses. Account validation help a bit.
Make your habit of banning IDs and IPs... I do it daily.. I get around 20+ spam registrations on my forum daily and I just ban them as soon as they sign up. This is the problem with every forum.
You arent fighting against some person but against bots.... do it such that members with 0 post cant add links or images
I have the same problem. I switch on admin validation to manually approve them, but the spam bot have method to validate the acount via e-mail. Most of the email account came from domain extention .cn and .ru IP banning is not possible because they are from different IP.
You can ban in many many ways, even use the Ban A Country and ban China / Russia and upload the .htaccess http://www.blockacountry.com - this works for a good portion, just select what you want, download the .htaccess and upload it to your forums.
looks like a new wave of forum spamming is here. I just got the same problem 2 days ago, but my forum has never been spammed so much before (I use IP.Board). Manual validation won't help if you have a forum with lots of traffic and some users don't want to wait also. I recommend you to visit official website of your forum software and check for new patches/updates there. If you use vBulletin, there are many anti-bot and anti-spam hacks. But if you use free board, it may not help. I'll also search some for IPB tonight. I do not find it's a good way to resolve the problem. If there are few spammers in Russia, China or somewhere else, that doesn't mean everybody is spammer over there and you need to block all visitors from those countries.
I would presume he is promoting a xxx site ? If he is, use the word filter to filter the download link, and if the images are hosted on an xxx site filter that aswell. He will get bored if the images & download links dont work.
LOL... have you been reading the thread? or did you even read the title? Title:Porn on my forum HEHEHEHEE
If you are using VBulletin this will slow it down, the auto ones anyways. In your templates get rid of the URL in their profiles. Most sites down need it or use it. Most of the scumbags joining are looking to get a linkback in the url field. Install the the permissions based on post counts hack. You can set it to whatever you want 5,20,50 before a member can post a proper link or image. They can still screw around with posting http www whatever wahterver but not until after 10 posts and most of the losers aren't sticking around for 10 posts. Install the Signature Limit Hack and set it 10 or 20 posts before a new member can add a signautre. Same thing. Install the NoSpam hack where you add a bunch of rotating questions. This one didn't to a whole lot for me but combined with the above 3 things it has to work somewhat.
1. Do an IP range ban 2. Trace the IP of the poster. (google 'ip trace') If he's not using a proxy, you got him, and his ISP. Report him to his ISP with pictures and/or links to the spam and they will take care of the rest 3. Install the various mods other people have told you about, to prevent spam in the future.
These are to prevent spam: 1 - CAPTCHA or reCAPTCHA 2 - Spam Registration Questions 3 - Verify by E-mail and/or By Admin
I highly recommend using reCaptcha on your forum (worked perfectly for me). Also try Akismet plugin if you can.
OMG its starting with me now even though I have my E-mail verification and CAPTCHA on, on its highest level/difficulty... >_<!!!