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[Post New]26/01/2007 01:09:42
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youforalways
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I am having a huge spamming problem. I've done just about everything that I can do! I have the IPs logged and I have at least 100 IPs on the list and I'm adding 5 or 6 new IPs everyday. I have a human verification test. I'm out of ideas and the spam... it's affecting my traffic. People do not want to sign my guestbook because it vandalized with rape porn and herbal ad links. It's ridiculous! What can I do?
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[Post New]26/01/2007 01:31:19
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Yes it looks like some spammers have bypassed the CAPTCHA or rather wrote a program that reads it. A temporary fix is to rename the guestbook folder.
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[Post New]15/02/2007 15:16:10
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youforalways wrote:I am having a huge spamming problem. I've done just about everything that I can do! I have the IPs logged and I have at least 100 IPs on the list and I'm adding 5 or 6 new IPs everyday. I have a human verification test. I'm out of ideas and the spam... it's affecting my traffic. People do not want to sign my guestbook because it vandalized with rape porn and herbal ad links. It's ridiculous! What can I do?


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[Post New]15/02/2007 15:24:32
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I recently saw a video showing a spamming program that could read the CAPTCHA on forums such as phpBB, IPB etc. They use the program to sign up and post spam. The video also hinted that it could do guestbooks.
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[Post New]15/02/2007 17:38:34
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jennbell
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You suggest to rename the guestbook? Well I tried that, and no sooner than I renamed mine, the spam kept coming in. Is there anymore to do?
[Post New]15/02/2007 19:34:49
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Rename the folder and use a robots.txt file to stop Google and other search engines listing it.
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[Post New]15/02/2007 19:43:21
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Thank you for that suggestion, I will have to try that one.

Now, I know this wont work for everyone, but I am wanting to put a password on the post form, I only get certain people posting at my guestbook, but I dont want to have to install another guestbook or forum to do this. I have tried but I can not get it working. Right now, no matter what I put in it, it tells me one of my fields is not correct.
I am taking the password field from the comment.php and fitting it in the form. (three places is where I have found to configure it.)
I am trying to figure that part out, but so far have come up blank on that.
If you have any suggestions please let me know, because these are just about my last resorts to attempt to get rid of the spam.
And I really like this script, and definatly do not want to get rid of it.
[Post New]15/02/2007 19:47:32
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Are you using the latest version? 2.4.2?
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[Post New]15/02/2007 19:49:30
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jennbell
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No, I am not using 2.4.2, I am using 2.4.1
[Post New]15/02/2007 19:55:18
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jennbell
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I am also getting an error on the page, that I can not seem to find.
[Post New]15/02/2007 19:57:28
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Whats the address?
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[Post New]15/02/2007 19:59:54
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**website url removed**


this is with the changes I have made.
[Post New]15/02/2007 20:01:32
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You mean:

One of the input fields does not seem to be valid.?
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[Post New]15/02/2007 20:02:58
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jennbell
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yes, even with the proper password filled in, I get that error
[Post New]15/02/2007 20:08:25
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Try turning off captcha for a while. The on/off is in config.inc.php.
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