[TriLUG] porn spam problem

[WA Brown]

This is why I am asking Trilug for any ideas or help to fix this.Any ideas 
would be helpful and appreciated.


WA Brown


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Tuttle" <jjtuttle at trilug.org>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] porn spam problem


> WA Brown wrote:
>> PHPBB
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Matt Pusateri" <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
>> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] porn spam problem
>>
>>
>>> WA Brown wrote:
>>>> I have a server and website. I am having a problem with robots trying 
>>>> to
>>>> access the message board to load porn spam. Looks like captcha dont 
>>>> work.
>>>> I
>>>> get, on the average, 50 tries a
>>>> day. It fills up my email and I have to delete all the entries.
>>>> What can I do to stop this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WA Brown
>>>> www.havenstead.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> what message board software ?
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> It may also be that an agent doesn't need to use the form to post
> messages.  I know that some blog software has been vulnerable to attacks
> in which the attacking script calls on functions directly having
> bypassed the form and any protective measures implemented on the form.
> Have you looked into hardening phpbb beyond captcha?  Also, some
> captchas are very easy to break with OCR.  You may consider looking into
> other captcha implementations.
>
>
> Jim
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