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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, 11:34 AM
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 Paddle Master Group: Clan Members Posts: 2,085 Thank(s): 30 Points: 317 Joined: 3-December 07 Member No.: 50 |
cant you just remove the accounts if there is still some remaining?
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Feb 3 2009, 12:05 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 |
yeah, but I'm too lazy to go trawling through the members list
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Feb 3 2009, 01:55 PM
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 Knight Lieutenant Group: Clan Members Posts: 989 Thank(s): 1 Points: 215 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Tyler, Texas, US Member No.: 124 |
don't they make the site look busy???
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Feb 3 2009, 02:29 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 |
Just because we've stopped them from registering an account and posted adverts for viagra doesn't mean they're not still trying to post
 Besides it'd be nicer to have the traffic bumped up by real visitors. Stats for January if you're interested: Monthly Statistics for January 2009 Total Hits 380853 Total Files 242120 Total Pages 141024 Total Visits 10434 Total KBytes 17372333 -------------------- |
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Feb 3 2009, 02:40 PM
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Paddle Master Group: Clan Members Posts: 2,085 Thank(s): 30 Points: 317 Joined: 3-December 07 Member No.: 50 |
thats a lot1111eleven
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Feb 3 2009, 02:51 PM
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Knight Lieutenant Group: Clan Members Posts: 989 Thank(s): 1 Points: 215 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Tyler, Texas, US Member No.: 124 |
i see. but, this site is worth more than the FaRT site which has alot of real visitors. so
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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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Feb 3 2009, 03:03 PM
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Knight Lieutenant Group: Clan Members Posts: 989 Thank(s): 1 Points: 215 Joined: 5-June 08 From: Tyler, Texas, US Member No.: 124 |
well, i'm not usually correct anyway
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Feb 3 2009, 03:05 PM
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Paddle Master Group: Clan Members Posts: 2,085 Thank(s): 30 Points: 317 Joined: 3-December 07 Member No.: 50 |
'greed
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Feb 3 2009, 04:23 PM
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 Knight Lieutenant Group: Clan Members Posts: 824 Thank(s): 0 Points: 218 Joined: 30-December 07 From: Brighton Member No.: 54 |
rofl
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