Increased Spam/Spammers

[1D4LV]

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

nakakaasar lang.

[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"?

[mey0r]

Hope this link helps to admins.

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

[1D4LV]

sample:

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

[renzo_d10]

Sila pa ata yung nakakapagpabagal ng tsikot :um:

[1D4LV]

more samples:

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

[1D4LV]

eto pa.

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showt...3&goto=newpost

[1D4LV]

mainit init pa..

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showt...71#post1264671

[tsikot]

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

nakakaasar lang.

our increased speed of access lately has made our boards more prominent in the radar screens of spam bots.

anyway, we have already installed another version of an anti-spambot script and hopefully this works better than the former. we will monitor the occurrences of spambot registration, new thread creation and posting and we'll see what happens.

[tsikot]

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.