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General Support / Re: Banning members
« on: March 24, 2007, 02:44:32 am »
They'd be 'bots'/automated advertisement programs...CAPTCHA doesn't stop them from registering, I know this from over at SFD (I've had to put the place under tight security from the sheer numbers...I got about six in one day...and for a small board like mine that's a lot). They can leave their account idle for months before posting and automatically validate themselves ia email if your forum is set up to run that. About all I can suggest having experienced this myself aside from putting the forum into the same state as mine (ie. must be logged in to see anything but the first category and admin activation) is to change how members are registered to admin activation and ban bots by their email servers, some of the ones to ban listed below:
@freeemailnow.info
@sexyshare.net
@2000lv.com
@mail.ru
[anything with "hot" in it should be considered suspicious unless you know the server, and anything slightly similar to the second email listed should also be banned]
^ban those servers if you've not already done so, I've had 3 bots with freeemailnow.info as their email server bypassing IP bans...but be careful with some servers (check the hosting website in a very secure browser (as in essentially locked down) if you're not sure if a server is one with real people on it. I don't recommend banning public email hosts, but mail.ru has given me nothing but bots).
Hope this helps some
@freeemailnow.info
@sexyshare.net
@2000lv.com
@mail.ru
[anything with "hot" in it should be considered suspicious unless you know the server, and anything slightly similar to the second email listed should also be banned]
^ban those servers if you've not already done so, I've had 3 bots with freeemailnow.info as their email server bypassing IP bans...but be careful with some servers (check the hosting website in a very secure browser (as in essentially locked down) if you're not sure if a server is one with real people on it. I don't recommend banning public email hosts, but mail.ru has given me nothing but bots).
Hope this helps some