Is this user a spammer? I can't decide. lol

14-11-2008, 05:02 PM

Please welcome our newest member: Poornosyprort

Are you having a laugh?!

Details as follows:

First Name:
Test

Town/City
Kenya

County:
Not in the UK

Country:
United Kingdom

My Bike:
M400

Bike Colour:
No Bike Yet

How did you find out about UKMOC?
test

Pedro · 14-11-2008, 07:07 PM

Arrrrrggghhhh!

I'm deleting nearly a hundred of these a day at the minute.... driving me nuts!

slob · 14-11-2008, 07:43 PM

I bet someone (Ian Highlander?) could write a script that looked for certain criteria and purged bogus members automatically every hour, at the risk of upsetting Mr T.Test of Wimbledon, who really does ride an imported M400.
I get the feeling all these 'Test' users are signed up by a script exploiting an obvious vBulletin flaw, perhaps one of those 'type the numbers/letters you see' could be added to stop the buggers.

Blah blah · 14-11-2008, 09:18 PM

That's my mate, Mr Ickle, he's got some balls to log on here...

14-11-2008, 10:16 PM

I've noticed a few of these and here's another one from tonight,

nainkickesiuP

About nainkickesiuP
First name
test
Town/City
Peru
County
Not In The UK
Country
United Kingdom
My Bike
M400
Bike Colour
No Bike Yet
How did you find out about UKMOC
test

...........lol

At least it keeps you busy Ped...................ha ha

Shandy

Nickj · 14-11-2008, 10:24 PM

Must be more M400's around than I thought LOL Gullible me

14-11-2008, 11:10 PM

These scripts are usually set to pick the first item in a list and add test to any blank boxes that need manual input. As has been said, one of those boxes where you have to type the letters in would stop most , if not all of those, spam attacks.

Nickj · 15-11-2008, 12:53 PM

Where I've set up cms and lms systems I just don't allow the page sign up page to feature in the site map and exclude it in the htaccess directives. Not had to use anything else like captchas, the scripts aren't at all smart yet. Captchas can be machine read just not 100% reliably, you just have to apply some sophisticated segmentation to read the stuff.

14-11-2008, 05:02 PM	#1
Bodybag Guest Posts: n/a	Is this user a spammer? I can't decide. lol Please welcome our newest member: Poornosyprort Are you having a laugh?! Details as follows: First Name: Test Town/City Kenya County: Not in the UK Country: United Kingdom My Bike: M400 Bike Colour: No Bike Yet How did you find out about UKMOC? test

14-11-2008, 07:07 PM	#2
Pedro Ciao, come stai? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Somewhere Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 4,158	Arrrrrggghhhh! I'm deleting nearly a hundred of these a day at the minute.... driving me nuts! __________________ Monster 1200R! KTM 990 SuperDuke

14-11-2008, 09:18 PM	#4
Blah blah Upsetting normal people.. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Portreath Bike: S2r Posts: 833	That's my mate, Mr Ickle, he's got some balls to log on here... __________________ Power is nothing without control... I have neither !

14-11-2008, 10:24 PM	#6
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,206	Must be more M400's around than I thought LOL Gullible me __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

15-11-2008, 12:53 PM	#8
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,206	Where I've set up cms and lms systems I just don't allow the page sign up page to feature in the site map and exclude it in the htaccess directives. Not had to use anything else like captchas, the scripts aren't at all smart yet. Captchas can be machine read just not 100% reliably, you just have to apply some sophisticated segmentation to read the stuff. __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

14-11-2008, 07:43 PM	#3
slob . Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: East London Bike: Multiple Monsters Posts: 9,733	I bet someone (Ian Highlander?) could write a script that looked for certain criteria and purged bogus members automatically every hour, at the risk of upsetting Mr T.Test of Wimbledon, who really does ride an imported M400. I get the feeling all these 'Test' users are signed up by a script exploiting an obvious vBulletin flaw, perhaps one of those 'type the numbers/letters you see' could be added to stop the buggers.

14-11-2008, 10:16 PM	#5
Shandy Guest Posts: n/a	I've noticed a few of these and here's another one from tonight, nainkickesiuP About nainkickesiuP First name test Town/City Peru County Not In The UK Country United Kingdom My Bike M400 Bike Colour No Bike Yet How did you find out about UKMOC test ...........lol At least it keeps you busy Ped...................ha ha Shandy

14-11-2008, 11:10 PM	#7
Bodybag Guest Posts: n/a	These scripts are usually set to pick the first item in a list and add test to any blank boxes that need manual input. As has been said, one of those boxes where you have to type the letters in would stop most , if not all of those, spam attacks.