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Phpbb spam members

Discussion in 'phpBB' started by Dazed_and_confused, May 10, 2006.

  1. #1
    I have a phpbb forum where everyday one or two fake users are registering with personal pages like: free p**n , mortgages etc. Any idea how to avoid this ?
     
    Dazed_and_confused, May 10, 2006 IP
  2. cianuro

    cianuro Peon

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    #2
    You could disable the homepage field, you could make it so that admin approval is required, or you can use an addon to make it so users cannot enter a personal homepage until they have x amount of posts.
     
    cianuro, May 10, 2006 IP
  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #3
    Just part of running a forum... there are 1,000+ banned/merged users in this forum already. :)
     
    digitalpoint, May 10, 2006 IP
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  4. ing

    ing Well-Known Member

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    Can you please tell me where I can find this addon ?
    :)
     
    ing, May 10, 2006 IP
  5. dshah

    dshah Well-Known Member

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    I just summarised what I have been doing to deal with these spammers in my Anti Spamming Blog Post
     
    dshah, May 12, 2006 IP
  6. RectangleMan

    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    Look for a phpbb mod called 'toolkit'. It will allow better user control like deleting all members who are not activated.
     
    RectangleMan, May 13, 2006 IP
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    websiteideas Well-Known Member

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    Anyone else tried that mod? Looks good, but are there any others to choose from?
     
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  8. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Actually there is something you can do with phpBB forums to prevent spam submissions (well most of them anyway) I can't remember off hand how it is done, but it was something to do with editing one of the submission form php files, which would prevent auto submissions somehow. Do a search on google for "prevent phpbb registration spam" or something similar, and I'm sure you'll find what I'm on about. After implementing the hack, I virtually stopped spam submissions completely, apart from very few which still manually submitted.
     
    dcristo, May 13, 2006 IP
  9. dshah

    dshah Well-Known Member

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    I think what you are referring to is CAPCHA. Thats visual confimation code on registration form, that will prevent automatic scripts to send registration requests.

     
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  10. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    No it was something more then just visual confirmation. Auto submitters can still get around that. It was something to do with editing a variable name or something, I seriously cant remember right now...
     
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  11. bikerboy

    bikerboy Peon

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    Do a google search on "captcha pure mango"..

    I installed his a few months ago. Havent had a single Bot registration since...

    You can check it out here:
    http://wiiforumet.se/profile.php?mode=register
     
    bikerboy, Jun 10, 2007 IP