SPAM

[bigtreestechman]

Just to give you an idea as to the magnitude of the problem…
In the first day of the new site launch, I had to personally weed through over 100 spammer registration requests. In the last couple days, since installing some security tools, almost 700 spammer registration requests have been blocked automatically. I’ve still had to deal with a few who snuck through, but a few is a lot better than 700!
In addition to the spam registration requests there’s another tool that gives visibility into who and how often people are trying to snoop around files where they have no business, log in as people who they are not, or even try to make fake logins.
Too bad there isn’t an international agency to find spammers and hackers and find something productive for them to do.

[allen]

Good luck blocking spammers. They always seem to find a way around spam blocks.

[bigtreestechman]

I wasn’t going to do software today… but here I am, still at it. I just installed another measure to help keep the site up, running, and uncompromised.

[btt_admin]

OK, I ended up going through more than 60 registratrion requests. Two were approved, about 10 are pending verification and the rest were confirmed spammers.
The new protection system is in place… let’s just hope it works!

[btt_admin]

Nope, not the canned meat.
Just since yesterday afternoon when I walked away from the computer, I have 60 user registration requests to deal with the vast majority of which are spam (unless your name happens to be TQ4cwwwrtty or the like).
Today, I’ll be getting rid of the 20 questions registration form and going to a more aggressive, behind the scenes spam checker.
If you get blocked, it may be that for some reason your IP address, email address, or username has been reported to one of the several spam databases.
Feel free to contact me if you get blocked and don’t know why.
joe

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