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No new accounts for the moment

Post by bio » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:53 pm

I've locked the forum down so that no new accounts can be created while I go through all the bogus spam accounts that have been created (I've deleted over 50 so far, and there's no end in sight). Those are in addition to the 50 or so that miftah took care of.

There must be a new script out there that the spammers are using. Changing the visual confirmation settings seemed to have no effect on them, so I've turned things off for a bit.

I've also had to ban gmail and hotmail from creating new accounts, as those are the domains of choice for spammer fuckwads (anyone who already has an account using those domains for email will be unaffected).

After I get everything cleaned up, I'll see if there's an update to the forum software.

EDIT: Ok... there was no end in sight for the newly created accounts that had yet to be activated, so I did a mass delete (instead of killing them one at a time). Total number of accounts deleted this way: 765.

Fuckers!

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Re: No new accounts for the moment

Post by eddiecanuck » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:41 am

Wow, that's a LOT of users to delete. You were busy yesterday for sure.
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Post by bio » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:40 pm

I was.

There are no updates to the phpbb application, so at the moment, there's no way to block them other than to do what I've already done.
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Re: No new accounts for the moment

Post by mudflap » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:36 pm

Those bastards!
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Re: No new accounts for the moment

Post by bio » Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:19 pm

Yes indeed!
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Re: No new accounts for the moment

Post by bio » Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:16 pm

It appears that I can set the board up as "invite only" where you have to receive an invitation to join.... no adding yourself without an invite.

I'm going to be investigating this and implementing it, as I had self registration on for a short period and immediately got hit by several spam accounts.

Fuckers.

I'll update as things go, as for now, it's locked down. If someone wants to join, let me know and I'll change it to "admin approved only" to let them in.
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