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Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 17th, 2024, 4:26 pm
by David
David wrote: ↑December 31st, 2023, 11:14 am
I wonder if it's a good idea to block/ban IP addresses of spammers, especially for an indefinite length?
I am asking this because a few days ago Shauing PMed me because he was blocked by IP address.
This happened again, so now I un-banned all banned IP addresses.
Let's hope we won't get too much spam...
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 17th, 2024, 8:13 pm
by David
David wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 4:26 pm
This happened again, so now I un-banned all banned IP addresses.
This did not help.
This PM gives a further clue:
Shauing wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 7:42 pm
Tried to log out and log in again, same thing. Oddly, the spamhaus link says the IP has no issues...gonna try disconnecting and reconnecting my modem here.
There is a Spamhaus link in the block message.
I wonder if maybe the block is not even coming from the built-in IP-blocking of the forum, but from the Stop Forum Spam extension?
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 17th, 2024, 8:33 pm
by David
David wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 8:13 pm
There is a Spamhaus link in the block message.
I wonder if maybe the block is not even coming from the built-in IP-blocking of the forum, but from the Stop Forum Spam extension?
Err, or maybe it's built-in after all, but it's not from the "Ban IPs" section of the Moderator Control Panel:
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 18th, 2024, 8:36 am
by David
If any admin is reading this: Can we turn off Spamhaus filtering?
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 18th, 2024, 2:14 pm
by Falcury
I turned off the Spamhaus filtering, hopefully this fixes the issue!
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 24th, 2024, 8:06 pm
by David
Falcury wrote: ↑February 18th, 2024, 2:14 pm
I turned off the Spamhaus filtering, hopefully this fixes the issue!
Thank you!
It works, Shauing could now post in the forum:
viewtopic.php?p=35503#p35503
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 24th, 2024, 8:16 pm
by David
David wrote: ↑July 17th, 2021, 5:06 pm
Spam is coming from a user who made legitimate posts back in 2017:
search.php?author_id=2597&sr=posts
(Note: Only admins and mods will see the trashed spam posts.)
This happened again, now to _Zaphod_:
search.php?author_id=341&sr=posts
Even his signature was changed to a spam link. Can an admin delete that?
Re: Forum spam
Posted: February 27th, 2024, 10:33 pm
by Falcury
Done. I sent _Zaphod_ an e-mail and reset their account password to a new randomly generated one.
Re: Forum spam
Posted: March 2nd, 2024, 2:23 pm
by David
Falcury wrote: ↑February 27th, 2024, 10:33 pm
Done. I sent _Zaphod_ an e-mail and reset their account password to a new randomly generated one.
Good, I see he posted again:
viewtopic.php?f=67&t=4930&p=35517#p35517
Could you do the same with the other hacked accounts?
search.php?author_id=2597&sr=posts -- hellgenocid
search.php?author_id=2832&sr=posts -- Gilberto9
search.php?author_id=2857&sr=posts -- AlphaYellow