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MonkeyFiend
post Feb 3 2009, 11:01 AM
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Recently the spam bots have returned... basically the captcha system (the thing that asks you to type in characters from an image when you register) was breached by bots with decent optical character regonition (likely)

Using the new system there are now 36^6 or 2,176,782,336 images smile.gif

I've also removed 3 of the destination sites from the internet. Hopefully all this means we should be spam bot free for a while (the odd one may get through from accounts registered before this change) - if anyone hears of problems registering on the site then let me know smile.gif

We get attacked like this a lot - a throwback from the days of BF2 where we were targeted by some hacksites/individual for the work done in anti-cheats coding.

thanks,

Monkeyfiend


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fido77
post Feb 3 2009, 01:55 PM
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don't they make the site look busy???


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- MonkeyFiend   Recent Spam Bots   Feb 3 2009, 11:01 AM
- - Magik5   cant you just remove the accounts if there is stil...   Feb 3 2009, 11:34 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   yeah, but I'm too lazy to go trawling through ...   Feb 3 2009, 12:05 PM
- - fido77   don't they make the site look busy???   Feb 3 2009, 01:55 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   Just because we've stopped them from registeri...   Feb 3 2009, 02:29 PM
- - Magik5   thats a lot1111eleven   Feb 3 2009, 02:40 PM
- - fido77   i see. but, this site is worth more than the FaRT ...   Feb 3 2009, 02:51 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   Ahh the website outlook thing is rubbish and based...   Feb 3 2009, 02:56 PM
- - fido77   well, i'm not usually correct anyway   Feb 3 2009, 03:03 PM
- - Magik5   'greed   Feb 3 2009, 03:05 PM
- - Magik6   rofl   Feb 3 2009, 04:23 PM


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