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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Chat - 719? |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828                    Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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Was there a spambot convention here recently? That's a lot of bots.  |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| You, of all people, should know this...
... and yes. (edited by Xkunabot on 09-15-06 12:58 AM) |
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Dragon hellfire Octoballoon oops, you lose  Since: 07-18-06 Last post: 6449 days Last view: 6449 days |
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| Combine that with the amount of people for the party. And it still doesn't make sense. o_0 | |||
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Milly Metal axe  mrew~We're downpouring again! Affected by 'wtf I'm posting Syndrome'  Since: 11-17-05 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6296 days |
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If you mean the top posts within a hour during the spree, I've actually seen 723, and that was already a few minutes after the spree ended  |
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Prince Kassad   320 As you wish.  Since: 06-30-06 From: nowhere Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| Yeah, I noticed a sudden jump in spambot count on some days. It's normal and you won't have to care. (last month it was only at 100, so it isn't a big increase). | |||
Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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...seems like message board spambots are getting popular. Or they just happen to find us better now.
Well, I saw them on alot of guestbooks (though that concept got old in 1998 already). Intresting to note that we don't use captcha, and yet the spambots can't get through our protection. |
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spel werdz rite Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| All I know is that we've also killed |
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Milly Metal axe mrew~We're downpouring again! Affected by 'wtf I'm posting Syndrome' Since: 11-17-05 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Just looked at the URL now ... that's definitely a big jump since the last time I saw it, those bots sure are obsessed
... now let's just hope they'll never figure out what's blocking them |
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windwaker Ninji i'm not judgemental, i'm cynical Lonely People of the World, Unite! Since: 12-27-05 Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6304 days |
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Originally posted by Acmlm How do they even work? They can't possibly have unique code in them for Acmlm's, can they? |
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Milly Metal axe mrew~We're downpouring again! Affected by 'wtf I'm posting Syndrome' Since: 11-17-05 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| They have to know the URL and field names for registering and posting, which would be different on other board systems, so I'd say they do run a specialized code for here ... of course, they'd only check once and never bother to update, just like email spammers will still send crap to old emails you don't use anymore (or might not even exist) |
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Prince Kassad 320 As you wish. Since: 06-30-06 From: nowhere Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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Originally posted by windwaker 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 Sure they can, but most programmers don't care about one board when there are tons of other ones around. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| 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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Bloodstar 660 blue boar boobies Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/acmlm.org/board/profile.php on line 42 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Zcf was attacked by spambots a month ago. About 100 accounts had been registered.
Fortunately, a simple query wiped every single one of them.  |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace... Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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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. :/ |
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Darkdata 980  Since: 02-25-06 From: Newfoundland Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by Ailure I agree In so many ways I agree. |
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Bane King Rope  Since: 11-22-05 Last post: 6342 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| 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  |
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windwaker Ninji i'm not judgemental, i'm cynical Lonely People of the World, Unite! Since: 12-27-05 Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6304 days |
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Originally posted by Prince KassadOriginally 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. |
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||bass Administrator  Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by windwakerWe 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. |
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spel werdz rite Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"? | |||
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Milly Metal axe mrew~We're downpouring again! Affected by 'wtf I'm posting Syndrome' Since: 11-17-05 From: Mirabel, Québec, Canada Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| 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 |
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