[pLog-svn] phpbb2 mod for spam?

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Thu Mar 13 12:28:11 EDT 2008


 	Lots of them were, yes.  But, a half dozen accounts are created 
every day.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Reto Hugi wrote:

> I think these accounts where generated by robots before we activeted the
> CAPTCHA.
>
> btw: thank you very much for taking the time and looking into upgrading our
> phpbb!
>
> cheers,
> reto
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT), Jon Daley
> <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>>  	Hrm.  Looks like an upgrade to phpbb3 is the way to go.  phpbb3
>> shows that there are 6400 users that have signed up for accounts but
> never
>> logged in - I wonder if people sign up for the accounts, and then sell
>> the logins to spammers...
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Jon Daley wrote:
>>
>>> 	Upgraded to latest release: 2.0.23, probably doesn't make much
>>> difference.  I am looking into which is better, to upgrade to phpbb3, or
>>> to figure out this ACP mod.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jon Daley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone have any opinions on this?
>>>>
>>>> http://forum.truden.com/viewtopic.php?p=163#163
>>>>
>>>> We are now getting probably a couple spams a day (all from gmail).
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jon Daley
>>>> http://jon.limedaley.com/
>>>>
>>>> This problem will take an infinite amount of time.  This doesn't
>>>> seem very feasible, since we don't have an infinite amount of time.
>>>> In fact, we have less than a month.
>>>> -- Professor Tygar
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