Spam bots
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I guess. Though now I DO have access to name-brand prescription drugs at low, low prices...
(grizzled internet vet) I've seen worse (/grizzled internet vet)
Though they need to go. That stuff could probably get Dave in trouble with his host.
Speaking of, where are our mods? Just when they thought they could take a weekend off...
North_Ranger
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Oh trust me, I've been putting these suckers out all day.
Dave
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Sorry! Yesterday was my wife's birthday and I did absolutely 0 on the computer. But I'm back and here's what I did:
- Turned off guest posting. Frankly I'm surprised it took that long for them to discover it. But ow that they have I guess we can't have something nice. Not sure it'll help, though. Almost all of the spam was from newly created accounts. Only a handful were guest posts.
- Went through the new registrant's list and pruned like a mother fucker. There were a couple that May or may not be a spammer, but we'll see.
- I banned or discouraged a shit-ton of IP addresses. If you don't know what discouraged means, in XF there's a cute little thing where if you mark them as discouraged it subjects them to random page loads, unwanted redirects, error messages at random intervals, etc. Anything to make their life here hell. If they get through all that to post spam that will be removed...more power to them!
Dave
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edit: I have turned registration back on, but now they have to go through me for approval. Let them waste time to just get rejected.[DOUBLEPOST=1345390772][/DOUBLEPOST]
I think you are right.
I'm just curious as to just HOW successful could this kind of spam POSSIBLY be? Surely no one truly buys that shit on impulse thanks to some random incoherent spam on a message board, right?
RIGHT?!?!
apparently they do
RIGHT?!?!
apparently they do
Interestingly, it's STILL cheaper to hire a room of Chinese guys to send spam than it is to make a program to do it.
It's not actually purchasing things that nets the profit, it's redirecting people to either a site that gerates revenue through hits, or in a worst case scenerio contains malware that will infect your computer.
But I can't even fathom the jughead that would even follow the link on these things.
At least some of the email spam I've seen has some effort to actually make it look legit & perhaps warrant a clickthru. Hell - I've seen some reallllly legit looking Mists of Pandaria beta invites.
Side note: I used to get WoW spam all the time. then I cancelled my acct for about a year & a half - no more spam. Back in march I re-upped thru the Scroll of Ressurection deal, & within a day I started getting spam again. Then last week we hear of the security breach. Perhaps they've had a security problem longer than they think eh?
At least some of the email spam I've seen has some effort to actually make it look legit & perhaps warrant a clickthru. Hell - I've seen some reallllly legit looking Mists of Pandaria beta invites.
Side note: I used to get WoW spam all the time. then I cancelled my acct for about a year & a half - no more spam. Back in march I re-upped thru the Scroll of Ressurection deal, & within a day I started getting spam again. Then last week we hear of the security breach. Perhaps they've had a security problem longer than they think eh?
As a former PC tech, lemme tell ya, lots of people. Lots of people follow those links. They'll download any fucking thing.
Zappit
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Hmm...does that mean you're a tremendous perv, then?
Why yes. Yes it does.Hmm...does that mean you're a tremendous perv, then?
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