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Tue 13/01/09 at 20:03
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i have a small flat file forum on my website (perl not php) and have recently had two registrations which i believe are spam bots, i have a confirmation email which goes out to new users where they have to click a link to confirm the email address so both these 'members' are still awaiting authorisation.

i am going to delete the members but does anyone recommend any other actions or should i be safe as the bots are not set up to authorise themselves through the emails

thanks
Fri 06/02/09 at 08:46
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Good to hear ^_^
Thu 05/02/09 at 22:43
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I have added an extra question into the registration which seems to be doing the job now, no spammers for a whole week
Fri 23/01/09 at 11:59
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Some forums now seem to generate some random questions that you need to answer in order to sign up... such as 'what is the background colour of this website?' etc.

I would also search the internet for additional spam filter plug-ins for your forum software.
Fri 23/01/09 at 09:45
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"The Killer Techie"
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To be honest, if they aren't able to fully register to your web site, then your already doing a fairly good job at keeping them away.

I personally think the Captcha method is the best way of keeping unwanted registrations away.

Anybody else got any ideas?
Tue 20/01/09 at 19:35
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my board does come with a captcha system (type in the text in the picture type thing) but it needs php and i do not have that on my website so i meant i will have to set something up manually on the registration

after about 5 attempts i seem to have been left alone for a while now but i am sure they will be back
Sun 18/01/09 at 11:04
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mrzoot wrote:
> Someone has recommended adding a test question into the
> registration so will try that


That's the type of thing I meant when I mentioned adding some sort of CAPTCHA... :¬)





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Sun 18/01/09 at 00:53
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one of the spammers actualy got registered and posted some porn links so i think i need to tighten up the security,

Someone has recommended adding a test question into the registration so will try that
Thu 15/01/09 at 00:13
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thanks - so far nothing seems to be getting past the authorisation part but i have just had a third one now, wonder if this is going to become a real pain or it will give up after a while
Wed 14/01/09 at 18:25
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If you've deleted the users then it looks like you should be fine.
It's hard to say without knowing or being familiar with your forum s/w.

I would keep monitoring things as you already seem to be.

For the future perhaps you could look at introducing some sort of CAPTCHA system for the sign up process?





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Tue 13/01/09 at 20:03
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Posts: 57
i have a small flat file forum on my website (perl not php) and have recently had two registrations which i believe are spam bots, i have a confirmation email which goes out to new users where they have to click a link to confirm the email address so both these 'members' are still awaiting authorisation.

i am going to delete the members but does anyone recommend any other actions or should i be safe as the bots are not set up to authorise themselves through the emails

thanks

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