Increased Spam/Spammers

**1D4LV** · June 24th, 2009 08:18 AM

napansin ko lang. parang dumadami ang mga spammers ngayon ah. what is tsikot doing about this?

nakakaasar lang.

**niky** · June 24th, 2009 12:31 PM

Weird nga. Isn't there a verification test for registration that can eliminate these? Y'know, your typical "read the code and input it in the box"?

**mey0r** · June 24th, 2009 12:52 PM

Hope this link helps to admins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_spam

**1D4LV** · June 24th, 2009 09:06 PM

sample:

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showt...15#post1264515

**renzo_d10** · June 24th, 2009 09:52 PM

Sila pa ata yung nakakapagpabagal ng tsikot :um:

**1D4LV** · June 25th, 2009 07:03 AM

more samples:

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showt...8&goto=newpost

***tsikot*** · June 25th, 2009 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by niky

Weird nga. Isn't there a verification test for registration that can eliminate these? Y'know, your typical "read the code and input it in the box"?

the bulletin board script always has this Human Verification Script in the registration process. it's just the spambots (and their creators) have become so sophisticated and smart that they now can get around most of the industry's anti-spambot scripts.

and very busy boards like tsikot are particularly attractive to such spambots because of the significant traffic.

anyway, i have installed a new anti-spambot script that will 'hopefully' prevent spambot accounts from being created and spambot threads and replies from being posted. we'll observe and monitor if this will be more effective than the former.