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Old 01-04-2009, 06:09 PM
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Cool WHO IS FuntKlakow????

Hi All at VodaTalk,

Just as I was going to install a forum on my own website, I found this news
as I was researching PhpBB. Are the Bots getting smarter, smart enough to
pass a "Captcha" barrier and register itself?

Mass hacking of phpBB forums by FuntKlakow bot.

If you are running a forum using the phpBB software you might want to check if a user named FuntKlakow has registered as a member. During the last few days a bot using that name has been registering itself to tens, possible hundreds, of thousands of phpBB forums.

I found out this bot has also registered itself with two of my forums. A suggestion on how to defense against these kind of bots can be find here but I don’t see any quick solution using that method.

What I did was banned FuntKlakow and enable visual conformation. If a vanilla visual confirmation doesn’t keep off all the spambots, someone from phpBB Community forum suggested combining it with other tricks or change your captcha

Gaman.
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Old 01-05-2009, 11:03 AM
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Default Re: WHO IS FuntKlakow????

Maybe you should install something like a question:
1+1= ? or are you human?
Then set up the registration to be completed only when you authorize it.
'Admin' has to check each registred user and authorize it.

All the problems I had in my forum are gone after have done that!

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Old 01-08-2009, 10:41 AM
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Default Re: WHO IS FuntKlakow????

That is a good suggestion NZBR,

In fact I just saw one the other day "6+6-6="
Will try the same thing in my new forum.

Thanks.
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