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 Feb 3 2009, 11:01 AM
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 Security and Projects  Group: Clan Dogsbody Posts: 4,687 Thank(s): 1098 Points: 2,440 Joined: 31-August 07 From: A Magical Place, with toys in the million, all under one roof Member No.: 1  |
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  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 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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Feb 3 2009, 02:56 PM
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Security and Projects Group: Clan Dogsbody Posts: 4,687 Thank(s): 1098 Points: 2,440 Joined: 31-August 07 From: A Magical Place, with toys in the million, all under one roof Member No.: 1 |
Ahh the website outlook thing is rubbish and based on alexa (and alexa=evil) - most of the values it produces are just plain silly.
It tends to favour linkbacks to the site and so can be heavily manipulated if you cared (which I don't  )It also favours anything in dmoz -------------------- |
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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 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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