Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Posts: 5
| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: Textual Confirmation Code Has Been Cracked by Spammers | |
I'm sad to announce that the Textual Confirmation Code Has Been Cracked by Spammers. 
I have the code installed on 3 of my forums and starting a couple of weeks I started to get a lot of spam. At first I thought it was being done manually, but with the amount I'm getting now I suspect they found away around the code with their BOTS. I also changed all my Textual Confirmation questions and that didn't help. The Code has been Cracked! Hope you guys can fix it! |
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Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Posts: 5
| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: Question changes may be the fix | |
| I went back and deleted all the yes/no questions and math questions (what is 1+3?) and replaced them with questions like "what is the opposite of up?, how many hours in a day? how many days in a week?. Since I've done that, fingers crossed, I haven't received any Spam. So that maybe the fix. | |
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Posts: 5
| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: Question changes may be the fix | |
| I went back and deleted all the yes/no questions and math questions (what is 1+3?) and replaced them with questions like "what is the opposite of up?, how many hours in a day? how many days in a week?. Since I've done that, fingers crossed, I haven't received any Spam. So that maybe the fix. | |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: | |
| Nice to hear that changing questions helps. The following categories of questions seems been compromised:
* Yes/No/True/False * Arithmetic * Colors _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Posts: 5
| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:34 am Post subject: Too bad, they are back! | |
| Bad news! I'm starting to get the spam again unfortunately! These spammers are a pain in the you know what! Don't know if they are doing it manually, but I doubt it! Now I'm wasting time deleting posts and accounts! | |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: | |
| It's strange that spammers pay so much attention to your forum. Would you please give a link to the forum?
Just for curiosity, would you please show all your questions and answers? As a quick fix, temporarily disable Textual Confirmation and install Advanced Textual Confirmation. The latter complicates the live of spammers as much as possible. _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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