Spammerbots

[Jesse]

Hey everyone, I noticed a recent influx of spam bots lately and I have been trying to be as diligent as possible in deleting/banning. I went through the vbb options and selected what seems to be a better verification tool so hopefully this can put an end to the annoying jerkoffs.

Jesse

[Olav]

...put an end to the annoying jerkoffs.

Jesse

Does this mean I am not welcome on LGT anymore?
Seriously though, I've noticed an increase in jerkoffidity on several forums I frequent. Just the guitar orientated ones though, my Sweden forums have been spared till now. Fingers crossed.

[SouthpawGuy]

There seems to be a lot of spammers / spam bots lately

[AllroyPA]

There seems to be a lot of spammers / spam bots lately

I wish their creator an untimely demise!

[Olav]

Hail admin

There are ways of keeping at least spambots at armslength, our trusted admin will know how to. This could take a lot of doing though and admin might feel it easier permabanning each of these motherf... oops; guys that dig their mom to the extreme, as they present themselves. More often than not these jokers use just the one IP-address, so the ones presenting themselves here aren't likely to return once permabanned.

[AllroyPA]

I was permibanned throughout the 80's and 90's .... 8 P

[Olav]

excuse the OffTopic

You mean perm-banned;

as you should have been!

[Jesse]

There are ways of keeping at least spambots at armslength, our trusted admin will know how to. This could take a lot of doing though and admin might feel it easier permabanning each of these motherf... oops; guys that dig their mom to the extreme, as they present themselves. More often than not these jokers use just the one IP-address, so the ones presenting themselves here aren't likely to return once permabanned.

We use a verification program, but it clearly isn't working. I check the board about 25 times a day, and just perma-ban every spambot (and their IP address) on sight. I'm not sure what other options there are, kinda annoying eh?

[Olav]

The more 'sophisticated' bot reads and writes it's way around the verification most forums use. You might wanna take a look at the way the guys at mosriteforum.com handle things. It's a lot of work, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than checking the board 25 times a day.

[Jesse]

I just tried changing the human verification manager to a Q & A, let's see if that will work.

[Olav]

It's getting ridiculous...

[SouthpawGuy]

It looks like the invasion of the spammer bots at the moment.

[Olav]

exactely the term I used in my PM to Jesse.
We really need to pull together on this and find a way to keep these lowlives on the other side of the treshold. Boards die of this disease... Don't wanna see that happen here.

[Jesse]

I just switched the registration over to where I have to personally accept each person that comes here before they post. I really didn't want to be like that, but it looks like we have no option. Hopefully this will work.

Don't worry guys, I'll figure this out I promise

[SouthpawGuy]

I just switched the registration over to where I have to personally accept each person that comes here before they post. I really didn't want to be like that, but it looks like we have no option. Hopefully this will work.

Don't worry guys, I'll figure this out I promise

Maybe check this out, it might help ?

http://www.spamhelp.org/harvesterkiller/

http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/antispam.html