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#1 spammed guestbook

Bactrian — GMT

It looks like I many have the number one spammed guestbook now. I changed the address last month but Google search picked it up under Adv. Guestbook 2 3 1. again and put it on page one, third & fourth ones down. Today the spam is starting to come in every 10 or 20 min. Today I changed the link name on the bottom to "Adv. G/Book 2 3 1" and will be changing the address soon.

Do think that I should replace the guestbook with a guestbook for spammers, with no links coming back to my site just so we can see who’s doing it, and maybe have some fun making the title something like “Spammers of The Week”

If anyone wants to take a look, this is the link: http://camelphotos.com/guest_bk/index.php

Roger

Bactrian — GMT

By the way, I have the HTML codes disabled.
For the censor words, I have set up the ones below just to make sure.
meta
http://
http://camelphotos.com/guest_bk/index.php

Just having some fun,
Roger

Carbonize — GMT

I was just using the simple anti spam mod and made www.carbonize.co.uk/Guestbook/index2.php to show all the spam entries. Now I use human verification I may as well delete it but will leave it for a while. Ignore the comments as they are for the REAL entries.

Bactrian — GMT

With the HTML disabled the spammers could still put links to wherever they wanted. Using the censor words like http:// stops them from doing this. The new guestbook that I set up for spammers has the HTML disabled but I did not set the censor words yet, and now their links work when they spam.

Roger

Carbonize — GMT

You have AGCode enabled? This is what they tend to use.

Bactrian — GMT

Since I moved my guestbook and put up a new guestbook (spambook) in its place, I have gotten spammed 92 times in 3 days. It looks like they are all coming from the same spamming program. The URL and IP address are all different and fake, but all of the links go back to the same site.
I will try putting some of the spam blocking code on this book to see if I can do it right before I put it on my main guestbook that I had to move.
http://camelphotos.com/guest_bk/index.php

Roger

Carbonize — GMT

Try my human verification mod as it's a good balance between simplicity and effectiveness.

djslim — GMT

[quote="Carbonize"]Try my human verification mod as it's a good balance between simplicity and effectiveness.[/quote]

I was getting a ton of spam on my american idol guestbook and I installed the verification mod and haven't had a single spam comment yet and it has been well over a month. Before I was getting at least 10 a day

Blocking DNS & IP

ThePaulius — GMT

Ie got the same spammer attcking my forum, and its a police forum! not so good - its unofficial, but still not good -iv increased the flooding, that prevented the bombardment, but it works this out and adjusts as required! ive added http:// to my list of words, will see how that goes, i dont really want to do the human verifacation (not atually looked at whats involved, )
is there a way of blocking dns names aswell as ips?

Carbonize — GMT

No but a dns name is just an IP resolved. I have written a mod to store IP and not hostname. The human verification is simple and most guests understand why it is there. It's just like signing an I AGREE box on a form.

mms — GMT

Yesterday, our church website recieved this entry in the guestbook:

From: Lord.Hacker@linhost218.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
Add to Address Book,
Lord Hacker

I DID NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE!

It took over the guestbook entirely. A flashing screen appeared, notifying us that we had been hacked - I could not delete the entry. I had to uninstall the guestbook feature on the website, menu references, etc. Not sure, if it would be worth persuing this feature again. What a bummer!

Carbonize — GMT

let em take a guess, You have HTML enabled in your guestbook hence them being able to post that HTML in it.

lloyd_borrett — GMT

It's not something I'm proud of, but my Advanced Guestbook has been under constant attack for months now. Yesterday alone, I cleaned out some 500 spam comment entries alone.

I tried to implement Carbonize's human verification mod way back when, but had problems and didn't have any time to work on sorting them out. (My implementation is pretty modified.) And moving to the new version of Advanced Guestbook from Carbonize would take me even longer.

What I've found is that even with HTML and AGCode dissabled, they find a way of getting their non-working link details into the comments and guestbook entries.

Using the censor words like:
http://
href=
url=
does help as a deterent because it makes even those sort of entries look pretty meaningless.

Because I get so many spam entires, I find the easiest way to clean them out is to use phpMyAdmin to locate and delete them from the book_com and book_data tables.

It's obvious that these spammers put a fair bit of effort into doing it. What I fail to understand is how they think it will really benefit them.

Best Regards, Lloyd.

Carbonize — GMT

Welcome back to the real world Lloyd. What it does is get their links out there. It's like phishing emails. They send out thousands knowing only a few will get clicked but it only takes a few to make them money. BTW I rewrote the instructions for the Human Verification to make it easier to implement, even for an Australian.

lloyd_borrett — GMT

They were easy to follow, and I did so meticulously. But I got errors everywhere and had to switch back.

Probably something to do with all of the changes I'd made previously.

Regards, Lloyd.