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Aug 11, 2011 9:03 am
Aug 11, 2011 9:03 am
Subject: Re: Important: Account purge. Accounts without posts will be deleted
You do so. Sorry for forcing you out in the public
Some more background: There's a spambot expecially for our Viscacha forum system. I'm tracking several automated registrations, logins and spamming of course. It's a highly customized bot and I came to the conclusion that this bot is just some sort of "plugin" for some sort of chinese spam farm. I'm making progress keeping them out but since they also use real humans for "the act" (shame... humanity has gone from bad to worse). I want to avoid that members get spammed via PMs (those I do not track for reasons of privacy). There are also "Status Spammers". Those log in and out rapidly to get crawled by search machine bots visiting the site at the same time carrying their spamload in their profiles (which I obviously do not track as well). Such profile spammers do not post to not become suspicious.
You do so. Sorry for forcing you out in the public
Some more background: There's a spambot expecially for our Viscacha forum system. I'm tracking several automated registrations, logins and spamming of course. It's a highly customized bot and I came to the conclusion that this bot is just some sort of "plugin" for some sort of chinese spam farm. I'm making progress keeping them out but since they also use real humans for "the act" (shame... humanity has gone from bad to worse). I want to avoid that members get spammed via PMs (those I do not track for reasons of privacy). There are also "Status Spammers". Those log in and out rapidly to get crawled by search machine bots visiting the site at the same time carrying their spamload in their profiles (which I obviously do not track as well). Such profile spammers do not post to not become suspicious.
Bernd Kosmahl
"Sir, we are surrounded!" - "Great - we can attack in any direction."