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Anonymous - Mon May 25, 2009 4:21 pm
Post subject: Murphy, seems you got some spambots loose.

Wouldn't be happening in my days.

Maverick - Mon May 25, 2009 4:58 pm
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Problem is guest posting imo.

Purge - Mon May 25, 2009 7:49 pm
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The same thing happened with SSForum. Same guest user name advertising the same products, too.

Mine GO BOOM - Mon May 25, 2009 11:41 pm
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Purge wrote:

The same thing happened with SSForum. Same guest user name advertising the same products, too.

That is because this is one of the captcha-paid spam bots. Looking at the logs, it digs and flys around the site like a normal spam bot, but pauses for 10-20 seconds before it submits the post.

Once I get a bit of time, I'll enable the spam bot IP filter that I mentioned about in a previous announcement. Since I started it, only one "poster" has successfully posted that is on that blocking list, which has been this catpcha-paid bot. I'l just have it mention that "you are blocked for spam, email me for help or register to post" like I do for some other spam poster here...

Mine GO BOOM - Tue May 26, 2009 11:47 am
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Automatic banning of bots enable now. View the announcement post for statistics.

Cheese - Tue May 26, 2009 2:57 pm
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does that post auto update?
or is it just a regular post?

Samapico - Tue May 26, 2009 5:21 pm
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Dogsintagog (24.235.210.102) posted stuff similarly to the Mazzurbaf one... It could very well try to get here

Mine GO BOOM - Tue May 26, 2009 7:11 pm
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Cheese wrote:

does that post auto update?
or is it just a regular post?

It is a dynamic post that runs a query every page load.