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Postby martine » Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:16 pm


Sorry for the forum being down over the last few days. We had (along with other forums) had a spam attack and were literally getting 100s of bogus signups a day. Darren (website owner) decided to take it down as he couldn't spend time on sorting it out.

We'll see what happens now.
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Postby martine » Thu Nov 22, 2012 8:58 pm


We re-enabled it and had over 100 sign-ups over night...so we've now disabled new registrations but the forum is active for existing members.

Well see!
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Postby jameslb101 » Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:12 pm


Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the Captcha supposed to stop this happening?
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Postby Horse » Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:29 pm


martine wrote:We re-enabled it and had over 100 sign-ups over night...so we've now disabled new registrations but the forum is active for existing members.

Well see!


One site I'm a member of has 'peer review', post something sensible* then get approval. Another has a 'no links' until 10 posts policy in place.


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Postby exportmanuk » Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:06 pm


On the Mcr 500 forum we got hit too over 1000 spurious signups in less than 24 hrs normally we get 75 to 100.

Real pain in the :evil:
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Postby Custom24 » Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:54 pm


jameslb101 wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the Captcha supposed to stop this happening?


From Wikipedia's CAPTCHA article

Spammers pay about $0.80 to $1.20 for each 1,000 solved CAPTCHAs to companies employing human solvers in Bangladesh, China, India, and many other developing nations.[23] Other sources cite a cost as low as $0.50 for each 1,000 solved.[24]
Another approach involves copying the CAPTCHA images and using them as CAPTCHAs for a high-traffic site owned by the attacker. With enough traffic, the attacker can get a solution to the CAPTCHA puzzle in time to relay it back to the target site.[25] In October 2007, a piece of malware appeared in the wild which enticed users to solve CAPTCHAs in order to see progressively further into a series of striptease images.[26][27] A more recent view is that this is unlikely to work due to unavailability of high-traffic sites and competition by similar sites.[28]
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Postby michael769 » Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:43 pm


Yeah, Captchas have been useless against spammers for several years!
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Postby gannet » Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:39 pm


never noticed :oops:
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