I’m getting so many spam posting on here I can’t keep up.
Does anyone have a way to resend them a virius or send them a mass of spam back at them? 
I send them a PM & E-mail stating “Fuc( off spammer and die” and in the body " Go away and wack yourself off " or “Go away puke”!
I have remove my signature at the “composites spammer forum” (Fiberglast.com) and have ask them to fully remove my account and all postings!
Any ideas?
you really can’t do anything, usually they have fake emails and hidden/or fake IP addressses as well
on one of the forums I moderate on we had to change the account sign in page. It now has one of the “type whats in the box”, something that a spider / bot can’t do.
we’ve also had to moderate first posts, I don’t like that though
Well, we had added the feature that to sign up for free, they had to go to their E-mail addy to click on it to finally see the whole forum, so it is more work for them and it seems to me that less is getting bounced back to me as a non active E-mail addy.
That also means they get my message back too! Weather or not that they read it! I even catch them still on here and PM them asap!:mad:
Maybe if I post their E-mail addy in a threaded section and if everyone on here would send them back their own crap!:eek:
They have these “TeleZappers” for your telephone for telemarketers (with auto dialers and the number gets zapped off their list!)…now someone needs to come with one for forums!
Sadly, the vast majority of forum spam you see now is computer generated…replying, PM’ing, etc…just don’t do a thing.
Job one should be adding some sort of human-response input, like was mentioned above, and job two is keeping this place well admin’d…I know you do a great job, but a second admin might be a good idea.
Lastly, use the forum software as best you can…block IP’s of known spam computers, heck, block entire domain names if need be!
Fibre Glast’s forum sucks!
THere’s something out there right now that’s looking at servers hosting web forums real hard. We have specialized intrusion detection software that knows what to look for when these things come looking to get into your network. A lot of forums are slowing down due to the load. Our vulnerability testing server which is essentially a “super hacker” in it’s own right was just updated by McAfee last week with over 40,000 new scripts, apps, programs and protocols! Each one was some sort of process that a hacker would use to get into your network. The bulk of these are out of date and probably no longer used but you still have to protect agains them and the “script kiddies” that use them.
The next update of the McAfee VA tool will allow administrators to toss back multiple request from identified sources of intrusions. Sort of like the call zapper thingies. The legality of such technology hasn’t been tested yet. It would be like a “Denial of Service” attack on the attacker.
The worst thing you can do to a spam message is reply to it. Once you do that your e-mail address (which is in the public domain from the time it was created) goes from a “valid spammer list or database” to an “Active Spammer List or Database”. There are programs which manage these two types of lists. Web siphons will collect them for sale. A “valid” list with 1,000,000 e-mail addresses will sell for $20. An “active” list with 1,000,000 e-mail addresses will sell for $10K or more! Guess which list you end up on if you reply to a spammer? :rolleyes:
There’s your answer fish-bulb!
KB, our Deamhost was down on and off this week as their DDOS was hacked as that is how their statement sounded. Related to your story…?
Could be. Whatever is out there is hammering everything. We can see the patterns in the data flow but have no way of deflecting it (just yet). Once they get in one server they zombieize it and it starts broadcasting as well. Kinda like rabbits breeding! lol
That is the information I needed! I’ve (have not done it in awhile…:o) always sent a welcome E-mail but I won’t anymore as the spam I get on this addy! :eek: