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General => News => Topic started by: Ingo Monk on April 04, 2011, 05:31:26 PM

Title: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on April 04, 2011, 05:31:26 PM: Hello all!

As you may or may not have noticed we had a spam bot get through. In the process of blocking that account (and subsequently deleting it) everyone got flagged as "awaiting admin approval" by the anti-spam software. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone!

So in any case I had to edit the member list SQL table so I could once again log in, and from there I was able to (hopefully) fix it for everyone. If you're seeing anything weird or having trouble logging in or posting let me know.

Thanks,
-Ingo
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Jester on April 04, 2011, 06:30:39 PM: will do bud, thanks :)
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on April 05, 2011, 04:20:41 PM: I also cleaned up a bunch of old accounts, some that haven't been accessed in 5+ years.
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Capt_North on April 05, 2011, 05:37:54 PM: heheh, glad i made my posts so recently..
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: APOCALYPSE on April 06, 2011, 02:31:02 PM: Seems to be working for me!
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on April 07, 2011, 03:53:58 PM: Here's a tidbit I just came across: the latest registered user has an ID# of 3757. Before I pruned the accounts we had just shy of 170 registered members. That means we've had 3587 spambots come through here....

Wow!
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Jester on April 08, 2011, 02:28:09 PM: damn!
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on April 09, 2011, 04:16:53 PM: Wow... that is not a small amount of spambots.

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Zone on April 19, 2011, 01:17:15 PM: You have eliminated my minions Mr Monk. Well, do not think this is at an end, sir....

;D ;D
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Mr. Van on June 22, 2011, 05:01:47 AM: Just want you to know Ingo I noticed a few of my old accounts were still on there feel free to delete those. They would be: Krazi, krazinugz, BornKrazi, Ouija, and I know for a fact Nike Shox wont be back anytime soon being she fragged a job against Wal-Mart and isn't due for release from prison anytime soon. I'll double check and make sure I didn't miss any of my old accounts.

<Edit: Just added another alias>
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on July 07, 2011, 09:42:17 PM: Ok, I can delete them if you'd like.

Also WOW! Long time no see!

Also also: WOW! I had ~950 rejected spam accounts waiting my attention and another ~900 spam accounts to delete that got through! Time to add some more auto reject bans ;)
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Mr. Van on July 08, 2011, 04:28:20 PM: Thanks chum. Wow that's a lot of spam!
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: bull30548 on December 16, 2012, 07:57:09 PM: YO! I think we got another hiccup on a large scale.
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on December 17, 2012, 01:56:37 AM: Sorry all, just got back from a short vacation. Took care of it seems like.
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on February 04, 2013, 02:11:17 PM: I went through and cleaned up all the spam posts, but I think I may have nuked one or two real threads in the process. If so, I apologize, and perhaps Ingo will be able to recover them?

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on February 19, 2013, 04:04:50 PM: So, do only the spambots love me now?

-kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on February 20, 2013, 01:24:02 AM: I dunno, do they?
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on February 20, 2013, 10:06:33 AM: I'm just wondering why it was so quiet. It took me a while to decide to post it here, hence the spambot reference, so it wouldn't be strictly off-topic.

How is everyone doing?

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on February 20, 2013, 09:15:04 PM: Well quiet is good and bad, good because it means there's no spam ;)

I'm still crazy busy at work :(
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on March 01, 2013, 04:14:45 PM: Hey Ingo, you should have an ad on the pageload, so that all these spammers start making you a little extra green. :D

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: Ingo Monk on March 01, 2013, 09:53:31 PM: Quote from: Kid_Vid on March 01, 2013, 04:14:45 PM
Hey Ingo, you should have an ad on the pageload, so that all these spammers start making you a little extra green. :D

- kv
LOL!

You know I had thought about it once, but spambots don't click on ads so it'd just be another thing to annoy us.
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on March 03, 2013, 12:27:13 PM: Do ads only pay on click-thru? I thought there were lots of ads that paid for just displaying?

Maybe only do it on 'start new topic' pages? I dunno, it amuses me- the thought of a spammer having to sit through a commercial and earning the site money while spamming, which I then delete.

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kenny917830 on May 22, 2013, 06:57:24 PM: Cool
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on June 14, 2013, 10:06:28 AM: I know that's probably spam, but it amused me to have a spam comment in the anti-spam thread. :D

In other news, I think Ingo and I have worked out a system to keep the spam down. Has anyone noticed spammers? Everything looking good?

- kv
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: kv on November 23, 2013, 05:10:59 AM: Okay, so one spammer figured out that we were using a post delay system, and some got through, but I think I cleaned them all up, and I banned the account.

Return to your regular level of inactivity!

- Logain
Title: Re: Anti-Spam hiccup
Post by: bull30548 on November 23, 2013, 09:06:05 AM: I was curious about this. Did we piss off Russia for some reason? They seemed very set on throwing women at us.