spam man eradicated

[Geoff Ringle]

As of 6 PM Thursday "Imno939" has been banned and his posts deleted.

[40 Nuck]

AWESOME ... Thanks ! Don't know why it matters so much, but I just couldn't stand the cr*p.

[George Greer]

I did not care for the disrespect shown for the people that has passed on higher.

I was taught by my grandparents and parents, you show respect for the dead. And posting the spam crap, surely ......did not show any.

George Greer

[c.o.]

As of 6 PM Thursday "Imno939" has been banned and his posts deleted.

Good to hear. For some reason sorting through the spam b.s. became a real annoyance. The obituary section was extra taxing.

[40 Nuck]

Thanks, Geoff !!!

[Paps]

If you didn't ban the I.P. address, they will return. Paps

[jke]

IP Address

Pa,
It is fairly easy to change ones IP address < Thus a ban on a current address is still no assurance that the d-head won't be back.
JKE

[Paps]

I agree John but changing ones I.P. address is sometimes costly and a pain, depending on how one uses it to begin with. 9 times out of 10, spammers use the same I.P.'s to create multible ads, from porn to mechandice sells. The I.P. tool has proven very effective at FHP. It has been approximately a whole year since I have had to delete any spam crap now, on the FHP forum. One of the other great tools I have on hand is screening. No one can register without a screening. Before these two tools, FHP was getting out of control, due to spammers. S&S provided better tooling for the forum, but it was a real task, eliminating the spammers who had already infiltrated the forum. I spent more than a solid week, 8 to 10 hours per day, finding and banning I.P.'s. If I recall correctly, I eliminated more than 500 I.P.'s. Those more than 500 I.P.'s generated close to 6000 spam postings. Once I nailed them all down, the spammers were locked out by the new available tooling. I had only one incident since. It wasn't a spam generated attempt through the forum software though. Some doosh bag implanted a URL in a avatar in the live chat feed FHP had running at the time. That clitch automatically directed all FHP forum visits to another website. The end fix for that ?? Eliminate the live chat feed. Webmaster removed the language from the file logs but the auto direct, rooted at the other website, continued to renew itself. Thus the need to remove the live chat forum feature. What is really scarry about spam attacks is the attack is never really deleted. Nothing is ever really deleted on a computer or the web. It is only hidden or quaranteed. For example....I compare it to operating system updates. The correct term for updates is PATCH. A patch is a bandaid. The wound will appear again a some point in time. A new bandaid will be added to the old one. It is an endless cycle of tempory fixes. Data is never really gone. It is only lost for a while. It resufaces time and time again. Sometimes, new updates to software loose track of current administrative computer settings. Bans are not always recognized. Data disappears from manual reach. That is why moderating, administrating, and webmastering chores are never complete. It is not always a single individual doosh bag who generates spam. Most of the time it is automated. Paps /Pa / Paul and many other 2-3 & 4 letter words at times.

[darrylri]

Most of the automated spam attacks are done with 'bot nets (packs of hijacked computers, whose owners don't know what their computers are doing at night). In this situation, it's very likely that the same computer will spam again, and even so, most of the computers are connected to the internet with dynamic addresses, so their IPs change from time to time as well.

I had several 'bot net attacks at the Vintage BMW Club's forum, but I solved that by changing the internal names of the registration and logon fields. There's still one guy whose 'bots are trying to post at my site, almost 2 years later.

There are people, like our friend Imno939, who appear to be real, live people spamming lists by hand. They are much harder to defeat. Perhaps banning his IP address will stop him, but perhaps he has many computers/connections to the internet and can just move to another one.

It's all very frustrating.

[23JDCA 808]

Thank you. I know this is sometimes hard to effect administratively. ...bill

[Paps]

Darryl, well spoken. He will run out of computers eventually. Unless he has very deep pockets. The bots are another story. Most are legit. All of the search engines use them. Without them, no one could find anything on the web. Like a bushel of apples, you will find a rotten one among them, now and then.

Yes Sir !!! Moderating and Administrating is quite a task. John knows this as well.

So........when you all think no one is working on a particulair forums spam attacks, that isn't the case at all. As was said, it is difficult to track some of these low lifes' down. Often, they are faster at putting the crap up, then it is to remove it. Paps

[23JDCA 808]

lmno939 appears to be back but appears to have been mostly short circuited by out Admin. Thank you.

[Chuck#1848]

Not Again!!

We gotta do something about this crap!
I'm reading a thread only to find this moron -> lwb0624z doing the spam crap as of this post he had a total of 8 post's and when checking the profile he is member#1 no less!

Just what do we gotta do! did the budget get aproved at davenport?

[23JDCA 808]

...and then he's back:
http://www.antiquemotorcycle.org/bbo...9600#post69600
post #8

[c.o.]

I'm not a computer guy per say........but couldn't it just be set up so that a few members would be allowed to delete this B.S.?