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chaosdjinn
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Post by chaosdjinn » Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:50 pm

It seems that the member list has been hit by a bot in the last several days that is auto-generating accounts with fictitious names.

I hope someone is listening. Check the member list now!

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Post by l0qii » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:04 pm

Thanks. Alexis is aware of the problem.

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Post by magic-belgium » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:38 pm

chaosdjinn wrote:It seems that the member list has been hit by a bot in the last several days that is auto-generating accounts with fictitious names.

I hope someone is listening. Check the member list now!
It's been weeks since it started. Fortunately the forum was not spammed and none of us had problems.

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Post by dragsamou » Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:55 am

l0qii wrote:Thanks. Alexis is aware of the problem.
Hi All
Yes, I'm aware of this, that's why keeping the activation of accounts, the way it is, is the best thing. Any clues, of how, I can prevent this multiple bot spamming?
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Post by chaosdjinn » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:52 pm

Maybe increased security with one of those 'captcha' boxes to weed out the bots.

http://www.captcha.net/

ps. Alexis,
I sent you a PM. Let me know a response.
Thanks!
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Post by magic-belgium » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:54 pm

Meanwhile 20000 spam accounts have been created. That's amazing.

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Post by TheQuest » Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:34 pm

softwares like senuke and xrumer are used to spam forums and blogs in order to create backlinks, maybe there is some software-plugin that can identify them

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Post by dragsamou » Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:12 pm

Hi Members

While 25000 bots accounts have been deleted, another 20000+, exist. I asked my webmaster to take them off, but he told me, that there's might be a risk, deleting another 20000 with Zero post, so whenever I can, I delete some of them one by one, no need to mention how hateful, is it to do this as it's so long and boring...
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