ThaJunkYardMan Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 today i have had a load of spammers on my site post porn,links, drugg offers lol these bots are registering, changing their siggy, changing avatar, posting in random forums and all have different ips. what the best way to stop this? i have been online all day just deleting these posts ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Yeah - this site was spammed, and so was my photoshop tutorial site (and my brothers site was also spammed). Seems like it's a mass spamming massacre on IPB forums. To block them follow these steps: 1. Login to your admin cpanel 2. Management tab 3. Custom profile fields (from left menu) 4. Add new field 5. Field title: Bot control Description: Please enter "123abc" into the following field to prove you are not a bot. Field type: Text input Max input: 6 Expected input format: nnnaaa Include on register page? Yes Field MUST be completed? Yes The fields I didn't mention can be left as default. Press "Add field" at the bottom, and you'll be good. The above steps add a form to the register page which requires a specific input (number, number, number, letter, letter, letter). If it's incorrect, the form won't submit. Keep in mind, it's still possible that the bot can get in if it enters the right input (even though the chances are probably less than 1%). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaJunkYardMan Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 done thanks. yea i know they were joining by the time i deleted the posts and banned the user. thanks alot. now i can get back to what i was doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaJunkYardMan Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 haha. just as this has happened ips has fixed it. ur rss will pick up the story soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stars25 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Happening on my skinning forum also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 That fix doesn't work for me. I've tried it as well as AndyF's method as well, none work. The IPS spam protection fix doesn't work for me either. Bots keep registering constantly. I contacted IPS and gave them an account to check my ACP. We shall see what they figure out I suppose. Bitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Sorry for the double post, but after speaking with IPS support for quite some time, they were able to confirm that the staff will work on a solution to this and release a permanent fix hopefully by tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. I will post an update if I get more information. Bitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W_Williamson Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I have had this problem aswell. I installed this mod http://invisionmodding.com/index.php?autoc...mp;showfile=784 Has worked for me so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaJunkYardMan Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 the file edit and the custom profile worked for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pride Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Thanks for your post Ehren! You're the best (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceKNK Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 You can set it so that they can only use like user@theirdomain.com or user@comcast.net etc Just block free emails, it may anger some people but it will pretty much end spam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b34nz Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 What about removing "powered by ipb" form the footer of your forum? That's what they use to search with Google like this: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&...Search&aq=f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 You're not allowed to unless you purchase copyright removal. Just add the custom profile field and it stops them all. Otherwise, 2.3.6 also fixes them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlpool2003 Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Using just expected type "nnnaaa" would that not mean they could enter "999uuu" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Yes - but bots don't know that. They'd enter any text inside that, and 99% of the time would be denied as it wouldnt be nnnaaa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottlpool2003 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 There's a system available that logs spam email addresses from all types of forums in a central database and blocks them from registering. I don't know what it's called but it does work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trancehed Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Before 3.0 came out I would check all new accounts against http://www.stopforumspam.com/ and they pretty much caught them all. Haven't had any spammers since 3.0 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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