Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

Is appears that approximately 45 of the last 70 registrations on the Dojo memberlist have been spammers with web-site links to inappropriate pages, including gambling related or porn sites.

Is there any way to delete these registrations and install some sort of a text recognition step in the registration process (or something os a similar nature / purpose) to deter this flood of unwanted and potentially malicous spammers?

UY MEMBERLIST DATA - APPARENT SPAM REGISTRATIONS
Sort method: Joined Date - Order: AscendingDescending

1 KontupeR29319 Mongolia 18 Dec 2005
2 Andpeyhnmr FV 18 Dec 2005
3 texas holdem poker 18 Dec 2005
4 KontupeR23937 Mongolia 18 Dec 2005
5 party poker 18 Dec 2005
6 Anddjkhlvc PC 17 Dec 2005
7 online poker 17 Dec 2005
8 free online poker 16 Dec 2005
10 DeD69020 Mongolia 16 Dec 2005
12 Andiayxmbp RO 16 Dec 2005
13 DeD72490 Mongolia 16 Dec 2005
14 mario65zone1 n/a 15 Dec 2005
15 Deandre113 15 Dec 2005
17 Andcfouerh SQ 15 Dec 2005
18 DeD62918 Mongolia 14 Dec 2005
19 tokyoyojimbo littleton 13 Dec 2005
20 Andtnqjrul SY 13 Dec 2005
21 DeD51118 Mongolia 13 Dec 2005
23 DeD57800 Mongolia 12 Dec 2005
24 leather backgammon set 12 Dec 2005
25 cheap zoloft 12 Dec 2005
26 DeD61484 Mongolia 12 Dec 2005
27 yastarym 11 Dec 2005
28 DeD66898 Mongolia 10 Dec 2005
29 DeD68393 Mongolia 10 Dec 2005
31 DeD28380 Mongolia 09 Dec 2005
32 merrell-x923 09 Dec 2005
33 DeD20188 Mongolia 08 Dec 2005
34 Beeijnzfho WF 08 Dec 2005
36 casino in job mississippi 08 Dec 2005
37 bonus casino free no purc 08 Dec 2005
39 cash casino deposit no 08 Dec 2005
40 fendihandbag 08 Dec 2005
45 Bobrikkh 07 Dec 2005
47 Beentojpif ZA 06 Dec 2005
48 DeD92926 Mongolia 06 Dec 2005
49 Mac Sweden 05 Dec 2005
50 Webcams 05 Dec 2005
51 Beeymxjioz EG 04 Dec 2005
52 wizardy7776 04 Dec 2005
53 DeD98460 Mongolia 04 Dec 2005
57 Beeyisczgw IL 02 Dec 2005
60 Beeigdfzjc MJ 01 Dec 2005
62 Beeunovlhs LF 30 Nov 2005
64 ratcrtur 29 Nov 2005
68 DeD78096 Mongolia 24 Nov 2005
79 sunglass05 London 15 Nov 2005

Okay, most of these users have been banned, albeit only by username. If necessary, emails and IP ranges will be banned as well.

And sorry about not catching that before .

Okay, l'm an admin n00b, and I've noticed that banning those users won't make their profiles go away. I'll look into that later today.

Best not to delete the user accounts though, they'll only get redone at a later date. Just ban them (it's the policy followed at a few other places I go to).

I thought Digulla updated the security of the board???

He did... nothing can really stop this sort of thing however on phpbb to my knowledge. People write scripts to sign up new users and so on... you just ban the accounts and leave them there.

Can't you have one of those "Match the characters you see" boxes when attemping to join the DojoBoard? This way someone has to type in the letters and numbers they see before being approved.

That would be cool but I don't think phpBB supports this feature at the moment??

You raise a good point about keeping the spammers there and just banning them. I was deleting the Spam Bots entirely... I suppose keeping them there and banned prevents them from posting as well as re-creating their user ID's since they are technically still there. I wonder how long it will take them before they can detect if they've been banned or not to start re-registering.

The sad part is there are conscious minds at work behind all of this. Unscrupulous people who'll do whatever it takes to make a buck by spreading their unwanted virus advertisements all over the place like the plague. I cant wait for the day when we'll be able to surf a spam-free Internet!!

That would be cool but I don't think phpBB supports this feature at the moment??

it does, look at this forum :

http://www.mangajima.com/mjbb/profile.p ... greed=true

The explanation here
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/tutorials/2010to2011.html

Confirmation code is include since 2.0.11 version.

Fanfan wrote:

That would be cool but I don't think phpBB supports this feature at the moment??

it does, look at this forum :

http://www.mangajima.com/mjbb/profile.p ... greed=true

The explanation here
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/tutorials/2010to2011.html

Confirmation code is include since 2.0.11 version.

Thanks Fanfan. That is what I was trying to ask about when I started this thread. I hope it can be incorporated into the Dojo forum and at least limit somewhat the amount of spammer registrations.

We should tell digulla, we talked about tis some time ago.

Steve Hubbell wrote:That is what I was trying to ask about when I started this thread.

I was just reiterating what you said with Hotmail in mind.

I contacted Aaron about it. We'll see what happens.