Forums being spammed?

[VOIPoJustin]

Just added reCAPTCHA image/word verification to the signup process, so this should alleviate the barrage of suspect registrations.

The reCAPTCHA project/idea is actually pretty neat, you can read about it here:
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

[ptrowski]

That is actually pretty cool. Thanks for the link!

[VOIPoJustin]

It also looks like the bulk of the bot/spam registrations came from just a handfull of (now banned) IP Addresses:

Example Username ---- IP Address
xfchbgfv ---- 218.106.90.38
vizirisuz ---- 79.120.55.82
BHhdNMGFb ---- 194.8.75.64
hdxbk666276 ---- 221.194.37.5
klmn254 ---- 60.168.93.12
JWLpWQUPV ---- 194.8.74.130
hdxbk666276 ---- 119.27.163.155

[ptrowski]

Nice! I guess my bill will be in the mail to you guys.

[chpalmer]

It also looks like the bulk of the bot/spam registrations came from just a handfull of (now banned) IP Addresses:

Example Username ---- IP Address
xfchbgfv ---- 218.106.90.38
vizirisuz ---- 79.120.55.82
BHhdNMGFb ---- 194.8.75.64
hdxbk666276 ---- 221.194.37.5
klmn254 ---- 60.168.93.12
JWLpWQUPV ---- 194.8.74.130
hdxbk666276 ---- 119.27.163.155

I wish all of ours were that easy. My latest... AnnaBeason

Looks legit till you google her IP addy and finds she has been spamming the world... Another day in paradise...

[ptrowski]

Looks like there were some more in the last few days. Man it is never ending!