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Anniversary

January 15, 2008 – 11:50 pm

Today marks the one year anniversary of successfully hardening the phpBB2 forum against SPAM bots. Not that they've stopped trying. There's been a total of at least 6,451 (and counting) unsuccessful attempts to date. It just goes to show that script kiddies are not real programmers. Neither are they too clever. But they are persistent.
Now [...]

By Mittineague | Posted in Scripting | Comments (0)

Helping SPAM bots

February 23, 2007 – 5:10 pm

As I posted back in December (Arabs), some SPAM robots were posting to my Toot-O-Matic with Java 2 v1.4.2_05 tutorial's feedback form.
Apparently the bots see the form's textarea and submit SPAM to it as though the content will be getting published online, which it never has or ever was intended to.
After seeing my htaccess file [...]

By Mittineague | Posted in Scripting | Comments (0)

Messenger

December 29, 2006 – 5:11 pm

Messenger SPAM? If you take a look at the Email Addresses page, you'll notice a few "Emily" and "Becky" hotmail.com email addresses. These supposedly belong to someone wanting to be contacted by MSN Messenger and not by email:
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please no email my box is full

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Really? Hotmail makes it clear that the mailbox now holds up to [...]

By Mittineague | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Arabs

December 6, 2006 – 8:31 pm

There has not yet been a single SPAM comment and the blog has been online for several weeks now. I guess those Wordpress plugins really do work knock wood.
A few spammers have managed to get by the phpBB forum's anti-spam measures since that went live. So that will have to be locked down [...]

By Mittineague | Posted in Scripting | Also tagged Arabs, regex | Comments (0)

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