seahawk09 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hey Mathjis, I was wondering is there any way of making this site invisable to hackers and just allow real people in here so that we here can enjoy this site for what it's intended purpose is flight simming this hacker garbage is getting a little anoyying wouldnt you agree. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted November 19, 2006 Aerosoft Share Posted November 19, 2006 Hey Mathjis, I was wondering is there any way of making this site invisable to hackers and just allow real people in here so that we here can enjoy this site for what it's intended purpose is flight simming this hacker garbage is getting a little anoyying wouldnt you agree. Richard Well yeah, we see it as a sign of the popularity as well of course, lol. The main thing is for anybody NOT to respond becausde all these messages have feed back activcated so the spammer KNOW it is being written and responded to. The more replies the more people read the spam. Telling them to sod off might be fun, but they realy don;t care and by doing so you help them. We'll look this week at more methods of protection, but that's hard if you want the forums to be easy accesable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kofi 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Why not make a registration system where the user must receive an email to initiate registration and RESPOND back to Aerosoft with an email reply for confirmation :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor16 1 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Or put image verification on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted November 20, 2006 Aerosoft Share Posted November 20, 2006 Or put image verification on. That's on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor16 1 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Forget what i said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted November 24, 2006 Aerosoft Share Posted November 24, 2006 We done some research on the spam and you know... our main finding is that it pays, it works. Whe the topic is right (say including some woman called Spear with some sexually related verb) it gets many views. if the same spam relates to something about small male sexual organs or loans, the amount of hits drops by 80%. What that tells us about our customer base, well let's not go there.... Let me say we got some idea on removing spam that will NOT involve any scheme that makes it harder to register or post here. We do not want to do anything like that as it means the spammers wins. It also means that we will never be without this kind of spam. If a forum gets hits it gets spam. But above all... everytime you click [View|Open] it means the spam works. If you click on link in the message that will allow you to SEE the sexual act between the woman called Spear and some bloke, it means we will get a lot more spam as it confirms it works. If you want porn I strongly suggest you try youporn.com and not this forum. Spam in forums depends on reactions, seriously. Click it and it grows (and we known WHO clicks it, did you consider that?) ignore it and it will decrease. We will soon be able to reduce spam here, but I will not decrease availability of the support forums because some jerks think our customers have small male genitals or need to see the a woman called Spear haveing sex. Now anybody, tell me, who is that woman Spear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Hartmann [OLD] 1419 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Mathijs, check this one here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=435694 I installed it over at the DA forum and it works just fine. No more spam posts since then. Of course, people who don't notice a big, white on red "don't fill in any profile information" will suffer :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted November 26, 2006 Aerosoft Share Posted November 26, 2006 Mathijs, check this one here: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=435694 I installed it over at the DA forum and it works just fine. No more spam posts since then. Of course, people who don't notice a big, white on red "don't fill in any profile information" will suffer :wink: investigating, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skydvdan 2 Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Now anybody, tell me, who is that woman Spear? Britney Spears? The gossip hounds are all over this. Don't tell me you haven't seen this on the news. Here on BBC news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted November 30, 2006 Aerosoft Share Posted November 30, 2006 Think we got the issue sorted guys, sorry it took a while. Thanks Hans for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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