PhpBB spam on the Jokosher forums
We’ve been having a few bots spamming the Jokosher forums, by registering an account and posting a spam post. To that end, I’ve applied the Easy BotStopper mod, which adds a (simple but apparently quite effective) wrinkle to the signup process. It’s a Club solution, but, as famously said by the desert traveller in the Nike trainers, I don’t have to outrun the lion, I just have to outrun you. Let’s hope it puts enough of a barrier in front of phpbb spambots to keep us ahead of the game for another few months.
If you have any suggestions for ways to stop spam on phpbb installations that don’t involve captchas, I’d be interested in hearing them; we’ve already disabled anonymous posting in addition to the mod above.
We’ve been fighting this problem with the autopackage forums for years, no such luck. A lot of bots don’t post at all, they merely register accounts with their home page linking to some spammy website. I don’t know why … presumably somewhere there is a “view all users” link that Googlebot can find.
2 days later
Mike: there is (”Memberlist”) at the top. The BotStopper mod adds a wrinkle to signups, thus helping with both accounts-for-spam-website-links and accounts-to-post-spam; it’ll only work as long as the bots don’t start correcting for it, but we’re ahead of the game currently.
2 days later
I’ve written [1]phpBB Antispam HOWTO, which I update regularly. Also, [2]my site links to several threads on phpbb.com, in which the problem of phpBB spam is discussed a lot.
Hope it helps.
1. http://bbantispam.com/howto/
2. http://bbantispam.com/
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Definitive Guide to phpBB Spam Control >
http://russell.ekushey.com/journal/index.php?itemid=93
Try it out! :)
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I figured out a simple and easy way to get rid of the spambots.
check this:
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