Helmut ★★★ Vienna, Austria, 2012-11-18 16:16 (4170 d 21:16 ago) Posting: # 9546 Views: 5,640 |
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To all potential new members! Since September the Forum is facing a wave of fake registrations and attacks by skiddies. About ten new “users” (likely bots) registered daily without activating their accounts. 97% of them were well known spammers (user name, e-mail address, IP, or domain listed in e.g., APEWS, SORBS, BotScout, FSpamlist, Stop Forum Spam, Project Honey Pot, Abusive Hosts Blocking List, DroneBL, EFnetRBL, SpamCop, SpamHaus, Tornevall, UBL, or BlockList.de). Trend of rejected requests (HTTP 403; hits and % of total): August 0 We are currently testing a solution (ZB Block) automatically preventing blacklisted spammers to register and login. If you are blocked and cannot register contact us. If your ISP hosts spamming accounts (mainly domains from China, the US, Russia, and the Ukraine) we can whitelist you – but only if you have a static IP. For details see the Instructions. Thank you for understanding. 2012-11-20 02:10: Activated ZB Block in registration form (1st hit after six minutes). 2012-11-21 21:31: Activated ZB Block in login form (1st hit after ten minutes). 2012-11-22 18:00: Deactivated CAPTCHA in registration form. 9 May 2017 2013-02-23 22:40: Blocked attempt № 10,000. 2013-05-24 07:48: Blocked attempt № 20,000. 2013-09-30 08:17: Blocked attempt № 30,000. 2014-03-08 23:50: Blocked attempt № 40,000. 2014-09-29 07:56: Blocked attempt № 50,000. 2015-08-05 07:34: Blocked attempt № 60,000. 2016-06-07 05:42: Blocked attempt № 70,000. 2017-05-09: Activated the Math-Captcha again (20 registrations without activation / day since March). 2017-07-18 12:22: Blocked attempt № 80,000. Are you interested in where the bad guys come from? Have a look. — Dif-tor heh smusma 🖖🏼 Довге життя Україна! Helmut Schütz The quality of responses received is directly proportional to the quality of the question asked. 🚮 Science Quotes |