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Xkeeper
Posts: 3673/5653		 I usually put funny tags on suspicious images, have you not learned that yet?
Sukasa
Posts: 1697/2068		 Never thought of that
Radiation
Posts: 110/119		 I don't do theories. I do things... that are... true. Yeah.



Funny alt-tags are awesome, you should try them sometime.
Sukasa
Posts: 1694/2068		 So approximately 2.83333333333333333333333333 hours until DOOM by your theory.
Radiation
Posts: 109/119		 Hey, I just want to say that the spambot-defeating thingy with the Homepage is ingenius and super-effective against spambots, apparently.

Also, what's that big number that's slowly lowering itself?

[edit: nevermind it's just the fourth doomclock everyone just ignore it]
HyperHacker
Posts: 3315/5072		 I fear if it gets well-known, bot writers will code around it and it won't work anymore.
Xkeeper
Posts: 3672/5653
Originally posted by Emptyeye
You know it'll get rejected by /. without some type of anti-Microsoft, pro-open source spin on it, right? /. being what they are and all.

Well, it's either /. or Digg, so you either get nazi editors or buddy-buddy users.
Emptyeye
Posts: 689/869		 You know it'll get rejected by /. without some type of anti-Microsoft, pro-open source spin on it, right? /. being what they are and all.
Xkeeper
Posts: 3671/5653		 I'm going to throw a party at 1000 (and probably submit it to /. or something after writing up a quick "how-to" with some examples)...

...looking at it it doesn't seem like it'll be very long
Bane King
Posts: 107/116		 IDEA!!!!!
Heee wouldn't it be funny to get paid to do that to fireboard.

Yeah...if I knew how...I would just for the hell of it
Tarale
Posts: 2047/2713
Originally posted by Bane King
Forgive me if tohis is a n00b question but why do people do that?

Do they get paid to say Come play my free online poker?


Yes, they get paid for this. And in the event that a bot can't do the work, there are people who get paid to manually spam on forums and such too.
Milly
Posts: 47/145		 I guess the bots can figure it out by looking for input fields and textarea boxes, and common input names ... but they still have to find the page for posting, trying every link wouldn't work too well

I wonder if there's a way to confuse them by using random meaningless names or switching them around ... or maybe if you use the invisible field trick for posting too, in case they don't get fooled when registering ... I also noticed they've posted polls that don't make much sense
spel werdz rite
Posts: 1522/1796		 Wouldn't it be fun to go to an online gambling site, register, and say "Hey! I just got a shot at playing this new hack of Super Mario World on the latest version of ZSNES for Windows!!!! If you wanna try this out yourself, you can come here and play as long as you want for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"?
||bass
Posts: 452/594
Originally posted by windwaker
Yeah, but I was unaware that the Acmlmboard was popular enough to even warrant a programmers time to build into a spambot.
We aren't really. Most of them (bots) are generic enough that you can just change a few variables and they work with any random board.
windwaker
Posts: 213/235
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
Originally posted by windwaker
How do they even work?

They look around the internet for message boards (from a list probably), register, and spam. The spambots always filling in a home page is what gets them automatically banned.
Originally posted by windwaker
They can't possibly have unique code in them for Acmlm's, can they?

Sure they can, but most programmers don't care about one board when there are tons of other ones around.


Yeah, but I was unaware that the Acmlmboard was popular enough to even warrant a programmers time to build into a spambot.
Bane King
Posts: 105/116		 Forgive me if tohis is a n00b question but why do people do that?

Do they get paid to say Come play my free online poker?

Cuz I could think of 1000000000000000 more things to care about other than some lame ass poker game.

Well. anyways, Glad to see they arn't here.

Keep up the supurb work guys
Darkdata
Posts: 620/983
Originally posted by Ailure
We could make some additional check that bans a user if their first post contains BBcode. True it might cause some false positives, but I yet have to see a serious member whoose first post contains BBcode... that we don't use. :/

I agree In so many ways I agree.
Ailure
Posts: 1822/2602		 We could make some additional check that bans a user if their first post contains BBcode. True it might cause some false positives, but I yet have to see a serious member whoose first post contains BBcode... that we don't use. :/
Bloodstar
Posts: 380/669		 Zcf was attacked by spambots a month ago. About 100 accounts had been registered.

Fortunately, a simple query wiped every single one of them.
HyperHacker
Posts: 3310/5072		 I think most of the time they look for commonly-used field names like title, post, etc and fill things in automatically. That's why you see a lot of bots doing dumb things like putting their subject in the Custom Thread Icon field or using BBcode that doesn't work here.
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