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Yes there were tons of spam, hope its less now

Edit: LOL they just asked me what planet I am from when I posted this

Last edited by ricktendo64 (2011-11-23 03:59:19)

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Good job, Erik!

I actually like the fresh and new design, however, I was a little shocked when I first visited the site day
Has been a while again, but no spam to be spotted now.
Let's hope it stays that way.

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I surely hope that wasn't a "Speed" reference, Keanu!

I like the new look, yet I find myself missing the "Show All Posts Since Last Visit" feature of the old site.

PS:  does it do any good to "Report" spam, or does it simply compound it for an 'op?

Last edited by TechDud (2011-11-28 02:53:54)

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I actually like the fresh and new design, however, I was a little shocked when I first visited the site day wink
Has been a while again, but no spam to be spotted now.
Let's hope it stays that way

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Last edited by lionasbinto (2011-11-29 00:01:13)

mmm.  spam flavored hair wigs from Philadelphia! 

I don't know if this helps, yet here goes.
Quoted from:  http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic. … 37#p250037

AntiSpam stats from FluxBB (a little dated, yet interesting anecdotally):  http://fluxbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5263

http://www.stopforumspam.com/  Search by username, IP, etc.  Links to spamlists from SpamHaus, Cisco, etc.

Last edited by TechDud (2011-11-30 09:02:42)

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perhaps some existing API's could help (PunBB_v1.3 compatible) --> http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … -antispam/
or this (PunBB_v1.4 compatible) --> http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … stop-spam/

if only there was an API for VirusTotal to run on PunBB.  https://www.virustotal.com/advanced.html#publicapi

One other suggestion that i saw on the forum mentioned in my previous post was to remove the "Powered by PunBB" on the bottom of the page (if allowed by TermsOfAgreement) to assist in avoiding being added to 'spamlists' in the future.
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DriverPacks.net Forum is listed by NetCraft as the 11307th most popular web site.  More popular that SpaceWeather.com!
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsi … 40C7#11307     http://spaceweather.com/

Last edited by TechDud (2011-11-30 09:20:22)

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From Germany, here is another tool for 'ops to monitor spam.  (free for admins, with a limit of no-proxies, & 200 lookups/day)
http://www.tcpiputils.com/
It includes blocklists, spamDB-lookup, has maps, email test, hp warranty look-up, W3C validator, IP Geo-location (IPv4 & 6), etc, etc, etc
Example:  http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/9.2.0.19
I like the PortScan, personally.  This site has some extensions for Chrome (port-able to FF??) & accelerators for IE here--> http://www.tcpiputils.com/browser-exten … celerators

Terms of Use --> http://www.tcpiputils.com/policy

Last edited by TechDud (2011-12-04 19:36:30)

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Over the past 48 hrs, we had over 100 new registrations and of those only 1 is confirmed as a "real" user.
That's a 99.9% spam rate.  I'll try to keep tabs over this week of new registrations.  If the spam rate stays this high then we'll have no choice but to "raise shields" and close the forums to new registrations again.

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