GoN hit by spam bots

Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby Matty » 21 Aug 12, 5:49 pm

I wonder why so many now. Never been a problem before.

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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby ChainsawMcP » 21 Aug 12, 6:09 pm

I keep telling the guys at work that there is an XKCD for any situation...
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby Mythor » 21 Aug 12, 6:28 pm

Matty wrote:I wonder why so many now. Never been a problem before.
Spam ebbs and flows, much like the tides.
Mostly I imagine this current burst of activity is the various spammers catching up with the recent forum upgrades, maybe a recent breach of the recaptcha process, etc.

**** happens, essentially. One of the joys of forum ownership!
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby PirateEggs » 21 Aug 12, 6:30 pm

Matty wrote:I wonder why so many now. Never been a problem before.

Maybe the bots have just found the forum, maybe they weren't 'bots', maybe the captcha system GoN is using has been cracked now?
I've ran (quite small) forums before and sometimes you won't get bots for weeks, or months then out of the blue you get dozens of them flood in, then nothing for weeks / back to "normal" flow of bots, being a few per day. Some make several accounts then and don't touch them for a few weeks then come back and start spamming. Public boards will always have this issue, and (pretty much) no captcha's are going to stop them, some can be exploited / bypassed, others can't, sometimes these 'bots' are people being paid.
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby v4moose » 21 Aug 12, 8:37 pm

well i guess thats why i got several emails overnight alerting me to new posts in way way way old threads :D
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby Marius » 21 Aug 12, 10:51 pm

So by posting here, I just caused you to get an email?
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby Makena » 21 Aug 12, 10:56 pm

Marius wrote:So by posting here, I just caused you to get an email?


It's getting nearer to spam hour too, so he might get a lot more lol
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Re: GoN hit by spam bots

Unread postby Chucky » 25 Aug 12, 7:19 pm

I miss the bots :cry:

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