Greg, thank you for sharing this banning file with us. I uploaded it and it appears to work.
However, I realise that these spam account names are probably auto generated and each is unique and may only be used once or a few times each. As such, banning them all is a catch-up game and too tiring to keep doing. What we need is to stop them from registering altogether and the code snippet from Evan and the captcha are probably the best solution in my opinion. I hope to get both working on my site. Cheers Sunny 2009/8/3 Greg Clute <[email protected]> > I'm getting the same spam attack on my site. Eric's reCaptcha plugin > doesn't work with web-kit browsers, so I haven't implemented it on my site > yet. > The latest attack over the past few weeks has been the same 11name99 > pattern other users are reporting. Thanks for the code to ban > certain patterns, I'll put it on my site and give it a try. :) > > I'd like to be > able to setup my site where a user has to verify their email address before > their updates are listed on the public timeline. With > my limited scripting knowledge, I know there probably isn't an easy way to > do that, but I'd appreciate any ideas. > > A friend of mine setup an easy way to "ban" users with a script I've > attached. It will hide the banned users updates from the public timeline as > well as reset their profile and show them as banned. > > -Greg > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>wrote: > >> egasus egasus wrote: >> >>> >>> Same here >>> now i am getting a similar spam attack.. >>> >>> >> OK, that's definitely very serious. >> >> First thing I'd suggest is using Eric Helgeson's reCaptcha plugin for >> registration: >> >> >> http://gitorious.org/~erichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin<http://gitorious.org/%7Eerichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin>< >> http://gitorious.org/%7Eerichelgeson/laconica/eric-dev2/trees/recaptcha-plugin >> > >> >> I haven't tried it or tested it but it's probably the best thing to use >> right now. >> >> Second, if you're sure there's a pattern in the user names, try this >> snippet of code in config.php: >> >> http://pastebin.ca/1516064 >> >> Change the $nicknamePatterns global variable to suit your needs. >> >> Clearly we have a lot of work to do on the spamming end; at the very least >> we need plugins to support context-oriented tools like Bad Behaviour and >> SURBL as well as content-oriented tools like Bayesian filters, blocklists, >> Akismet, Mollom, and Defensio. More captcha tools and intelligence tests are >> probably worthwhile, too. >> >> -Evan >> >> -- >> Evan Prodromou >> CEO, Control Yourself, Inc. >> [email protected] - http://identi.ca/evan - +1-514-554-3826 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Laconica-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > >
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