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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Help, tips, suggestions against spammers pls.

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:46:20 PM »

thanks V@no,
that's also an option, but as long as I don't have to install that I would like to keep the user's comfort on a certain level as long as it will go...
My 3 steps did help till now...

...well not exactly - I did have to install that validation mod for the guestbook, because the bots posted spam even if I did disable postings for guests...

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Help, tips, suggestions against spammers pls.

« on: June 13, 2006, 11:30:02 PM »

66.96.*.*
85.255.*.*
195.225.*.*
etc.

dro4ers.net
yammy.net
sweetsnet.com
lovesnake.net
koziavok.net
1stflirt.com
4watcher.com
pornoscop.com
strokersclub.net
etc.

Yes, it seems that you're listed by the same lame spammer.
Well I installed 2 things against that spamming attack:

1) I installed Ban 1.7 (tnx V@no)
2) I banned all the above listed e-mail domains and IP ranges (only the ISP subnets according to the spammer IP)
3) I did install Registration with security code validation (tnx V@no)

Well this did not prevent the spam-bots from visiting my site... but no new spam-comments are posted and no new spammer-accounts are being registered...

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Auto Thumbnail on Upload?

« on: June 10, 2006, 11:25:06 AM »

1) You have to set "Auto-create thumbnail" in the ACP to "Yes".
 If you did this, the thumbnails shoud create automatically after an upload from the memebers area
2) If that doesn't work, check if you did set a conversion tool for thumb-creation in the ACP...
3) If you upload images from the ACP the thumbnails aren't created automatically, you have to use the "Auto-Thumbnailer" there after upload...

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Treat bots as users with less rights

« on: June 09, 2006, 08:15:43 PM »

... googlebot is probably the most active user ... 

Yep - especially googlebot... if just 1/3 of my users would be THAT active, I'd have bandwidth problems

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: problem with detail.php

« on: June 09, 2006, 08:13:17 PM »

Well, b.o.fan, if I look at any detail-page I just se a detail-page of the image I clicked on...

Did you solve that already?

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Installation, Update & Configuration / Re: Kommentarsystem spinnt etwas! JEDER kann JEDEN Kommentar ändern?!?!?!

« on: June 09, 2006, 08:11:08 PM »

Hallo Loda,

also eine Lösung für's Kommentar-Bearbeiten würde nicht nur Chicco oder ich begrüssen...

Meine Idee ist eigentlich, dass jeder user seine Kommentare bearbeiten können sollte...
Hast du so eine Lösung?

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] - Skype name & status shown in profile

« on: June 09, 2006, 06:02:57 PM »

Very nice thing!

As the ICQ status is also shown under every member's comment,
it would be nice to have the skype status shown there too

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Why I`ve never saw (<b>{user_icq_status}</b>) thing working?

« on: June 05, 2006, 06:09:26 PM »

Just found out, that ICQ must have changed the internet pages, so the detail-link shows you an error page instead of the user's ICQ-detail...

Change

Code: [Select]

http://wwp.icq.com/scripts/search.dll?to=
into

Code: [Select]

http://www.icq.com/people/about_me.php?uin=
everywhere you find it in the code and templates and it will work again.

Have fun

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: icq bei den kommentaren

« on: June 05, 2006, 05:52:05 PM »

Lange Zeit verging und nichts tat sich
Ich habe gerade gesehen, dass du dein Problem immer noch nicht gelöst hast...

Hast du mal probiert zu suchen??

http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=7529.0

Das dürfte wahrscheinlich helfen...

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Treat bots as users with less rights

« on: June 01, 2006, 07:15:51 PM »

So you did not change any .php file and since then all users are automatically logged in as a searchbot?
Hm, and if you upload your backups before the change, everything is fine?

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Treat bots as users with less rights

« on: June 01, 2006, 02:21:04 PM »

That depends on what you did change in the code to include google-ads...
You describe it as if you'd forget to delete MS explorer from the array after testing or smt similar...

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Help, tips, suggestions against spammers pls.

« on: May 29, 2006, 09:56:45 PM »

A bot that can enter a subject line and body message? Geez ..

Yes, and these bots can even more!
I hardcoded the name of the comment-sender in the form - meaning the normal user can't change that, but the bots came up with always new names sent to the form and at the end saved to the comment!
So the bot did in my case:
1) Register a new user every 10 minutes from a new IP using one out of 9 e-mail domains where the user_name was always namenumber and the e-mail always namenumber@domain.com/org/net etc
2) Activate the new user (e-mail activation is turned on on my site)
3) Log in
4) Visit a random image
5) Post a comment with a random name/subject and a long chain of links to pr0n sites and other

After implementing the Security-codes the bot is still visiting my site evey 10 minutes and trying to enter register.php 3x, login.php 1x and some details.php??image_id=xxxx 2x (see the attached image)
But no new users are registered and no new spam-comments are added...

I guessed that no one would code a bot just to spam my tiny site and so I searched the web and found
some script-bots on the internet, specialized for 4images sites, 4images exploits etc. ...
horrible!
Today my web-host called me, that I have to change my scripts (not only 4images), because the sites is being continuously
attacked...

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Help, tips, suggestions against spammers pls.

« on: May 29, 2006, 08:33:45 PM »

that "spammer" is a  robot - I got attacked too.

1) If you're banning a spammer-ip don't ban the single IP, but the whole network range - you can get that by a whois-search.
2) Disallow guests to comment
3) Ban the user, who sends spam-comments - or better check whith what e-mail they register and ban the few e-mail domains they use
4) Just bad-word-listing won't help, you must prevent the robot to make automated tasks - search the forum for "anispam" and "sicherheitscode" and implement the security-images in the registration routine, comments and/or guestbook - that will prevent bots from registering new users and sending comments

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Breadcrumbs

« on: May 29, 2006, 11:29:14 AM »

The breadcrumbs you're looking for were eaten by Hänsel and Grethel!
But don't panic - you can include something better - it's called clicstream in 4images
Search for it and you'll get help

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Ban v1.7

« on: May 23, 2006, 10:01:20 AM »

1) did you replace ban.php with the new version?
2) when you click on test link, do you see bantest in the url? if not, look 1)

ad 1) yes
ad 2) yes - i did download the ban.php from your page (even if it says 1.6 there)

But I'll better re-check it again...