What one thing lets elgg down? Spammers... Mainly Chinese!
For the first few months I was getting spammed then I installed site access, and used the site password feature when registering great spam stopped, then a few weeks down the line one spammer so I changed the password great few more weeks then a new spammer, changed password next day new spammer(S) so I thought maybe there 'reading the password' from the text above that says enter xxxx so I changed it to please enter the numbers you see in order excluding the * (exp. **8****9****9*4**3) great 2 days no spammers then 5 in one day!!!!!!!!!!!
This ruins elgg completely....
I run a PHPBB forum with 3500 members We get a spam account once every few months and thats a basic standard installation!!!
I Sincerly hope 1.8 puts an end to spam and deals with it much more than 1.x
Regards,
One seriously P***** off Elgg site owner.
@djsupport Okay first of all I was speaking about blogs and pages(I highlighted them).I didn't about the profile fields.
I am modifying the fbfkids.com IP logger utility to save IP# for register and login. Later I will enhance the ScanActive PlugIn to fetch the saved IP# to display there as well. Wait...
Not sure if this module already have been discusses http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/656224/developer/webgalli/antispammer-for-elgg
Seemed promising to me. I tried it in the past but because of certian conflicts in registration issues I could not test it further. The module made a recent release too
we just deployed webgalli/antispammer-for-elgg to our live test site with API key and seems to be working. Though we have not yet banned, blocked or deleted anyone.
What were the issues you ran into Vikram?
I got an Elgg project and it is online, but not public yet, and we've got spammers everywhere. They post blogs with pictures and create groups with pics also.
It is interesting how they could find it because it is not appearing on search engine results. I know we can't stop all spammers, but at least reduce them to few a month instead of hundreds a month...
@RJC ;-)
As I said - "...Spammers are smart coders ;-) They can code to go directly to "www/YourDomain.Com/actions/register.php".
Have a look thru your server's various logs and you will find "someone" trying to ping paths such as
"domainName.Com/....../register.php"
or
"IP#/....../register.php"
Once they get a hit - they know what you're using and they're in ;-P
here a big network was apparently closed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12859591
I've just started up mine. I have only had one spammer. I sent the account owner a message saying: If you would actually like to keep this account and use this site. You must stop the spamming if I am to see you spamming again your account will be removed immeditaly. He hasn't spammed again yet.
@tunist, thanks for the link, interesting. That was a bot network and in the past couple of days I've noticed more hitting my site with ip's from mother rus....
@Paul:
If you people would only post those IP#s here --
We can work out the code to block them ;)
Helps everybody more than just saying "IP#s from.ru... ;-O`)
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