Joined: 22 Dec 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Washington, D.C.
| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: what do the bots answer? | |
| I'm curious to see what the spam bots are entering in the textual confirmation field. Might there be a way to include that information in the spam registration email? It might help give us better ideas for more effective questions.
I love this mod! At least five spam bots tried to register today, and all failed. I also had one real registration, and it worked! I'll post a testimonial thread.  _________________ Come Together |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: | |||||||||||||
I think that bots write nothing to the field. However, if you are curious, you can edit the code. (Warning: do it only if you know PHP.) Find
After, add:
Find
Change to:
I'm very happy to hear it! |
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Joined: 03 Jan 2007
Posts: 6
| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hmmm, that code does not work.
This will bring an error. The following code will not create an error... Find
After, add:
However, the email recieved says the imputed answer is TC answer: tc_answer even when the question was not answered. |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: | |||||||||
| Sorry for delay, I had a nice offtime time.
You are right that the correct string is not
but
By analogue, instead of
the correct code is
Please notify if this change works. |
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Joined: 08 Mar 2007
Posts: 2
| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: | |
| Hi
I just tested this code, but it returns nothing.. Maybe you need to make a new variable and then copy $tc_answer and $answer to the new variable before calling the tc_bad_answer function... _________________ 
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: | |
| I'll look at it, but not now. I'll drop a note here when ready. _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: How to get the entered answer... | |||||||||
| Hello everybody
I think, that the answer is very easy. Instead of
add the following
All the post variables of the register form should be available. So you could also get the id of the TC question that had been asked, using
Clearly, most of the spam bots wouldn't post these TC specific variables (yet). But a human would - so you could see, whether or not the notification came because of a spam bot or because of a wrong answer! By the way, the other line of code
is okay. That should work. Please let me know, if it does so. TC is great.... |
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: | |
| Thanks! I haven't checked yet, but it seems working. _________________ Oleg Parashchenko, bbAntiSpam Do you love our tools? Please sponsor further development! |
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Joined: 29 Nov 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: Non-empty answers | |
| Most of the time, the bots send nothing as TC answer. Today my forum received two non-empty answers from spambots (Sureness of spambot: 99%).
69.50.164.10-custblock.intercage.com (69.50.164.10) 69.50.164.14-custblock.intercage.com (69.50.164.14) Both have sent within 1 second the answer "0". One should have given the result of three plus three and the other the name of the capital city of Switzerland. Well, 0 is clearly wrong in both cases. Best regards Adrian |
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