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| Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: Textual Confirmation | |
| Hello. As you no doubt have heard already, your Textual Confirmation hack has recently been cracked by spammers. Do you have an update planned? | |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:33 am Post subject: | |
| Not, I haven't heard about it. And I'm not sure that the claim is true: there is nothing in Textual Confirmation to crack. Most likely, spammers just collected the most often used questions and answers, and use them. _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:42 am Post subject: | |
| That's interesting Oleg.
My Textual Confirmation worked perfectly until about 2 weeks ago and since then I get between 1 and 3 registrations a day from spammers which aren't filtered out (though I still get spammers that are filtered out as well) I changed all the questions and that made no difference at all, not even on the day I changed them. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:44 am Post subject: | |
| Hi John,
I'm sad to hear that the spam registrations anyway come in. Is the tool cracked, or do you get manual submissions? I don't know. The both cases are unresolvable. As an update, I'd suppose to try Advanced Textual Confirmation, which is installed also on this forum. I anyway get spam time to time, but I believe it is submitted manually, not by an automated program. _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:01 am Post subject: | |
| Hi again Oleg
Since you have no other similar reports and the registrations appear to be from bots, I'm working on the theory that someone is exploiting a loophole in the server of my hosting provider and has gained access to the forum database. First step: I've changed the db password - lets see what happens. Yesterday I had 5 spam registrations, today none so far - though they usually come in the afternoon or evening. John |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:35 am Post subject: | |||
Sounds intriguing. Hard to believe, but as long it helps, one can't reject this possibility. Good luck! _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:42 am Post subject: | |
| I'm now down to one spammer a day - but that may be coincidence, it's only over 2 days. Time will tell...
I came up with the database theory because the spam registrations are already activated although I have set manual admin approval on new registrations. |
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