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... the hwbot submission form is one of the best protections against spambots? :).

 

We regularly have spambots trying to get casino and xxx-urls in hwbot, but none of them ever get the different verification requirements right! No need for this

 

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or this

 

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or even this!

 

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All you need is hwbot submission form :)

Nice, that is a good solution. Spam is such a waste of time for forums.

 

I use a Honey Pot - there are fields on the registration form hidden via CSS (most any non-text based browser supports CSS), but automated registration bots use command line tools that don't process CSS - they see and fill out the hidden fields all the time, so we give them error messages.

If the anti-spammer technique is an HWBot submission form, that explains how Christian slipped through the net :D

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That's how this whole thing started. We figured our spam mechanism failed as Christian suddenly showed up.

I think there is a bigger problem now. :)

 

With the speed and frequency with which they are posting, these are clearly automated attacks - probably been manually configured to navigate the registration system, then set to auto-spam. Looks like the work of xrumers.

"Spam-O-Matic" fixed the spam bot issues on several forums I admin, not sure if there is a version for 3.7.1 :( but I highly recommend it for any VB installation.

Thats funny that some days after massman claimed "hwbot without bots" there are so much bots spaming everywhere on hwbot.

 

Revenge of the Bots (now on sale)

 

The HWBot Striked Back (coming soon)

Oooohhhhhh a HWB film franchise

 

 

Episode 1: The Phantom Bot

 

Episode 2: Attack of the Bot

 

Episode 3: Revenge of the Bot

 

Episode 4: A New Bot

 

Episode 5: The Bot Strikes Back

 

Episide 6: Return of the Bot

 

 

 

Who will be Jar Jar Binks? Darth Maul? Jabba? Darth VADER? Boba? Young Anakin? Leia? Obi? Han? Chewy?

Matose for Chewey, K404 for leia and Massman as Vader :D Christian can be an ewok.

 

*runs and hides*

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