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Housey
Spam User Accounts

  • 2011/4/16 7:45

  • Housey

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  • Since: 2003/1/2 1


Hi,

I'm getting lots of spam user account registrations. There is a few a day. They usually leave a link in their profile of comment on the gallery.

I thought after upgrading to 2.5.1 this would be cured but I'm still getting them. Any idea how to fix this. There is a captcha code so I'm not sure how they are getting around it.

Many thanks...
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Mamba
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2011/4/16 8:50

  • Mamba

  • Moderator

  • Posts: 11409

  • Since: 2004/4/23


Try reCaptcha .

Also, set in your Profile registration that they have to go to the 2nd page to complete registration

Go to:

yoursite.com/modules/profile/admin/step.php

and set "Save after step" for Basic to "No" and for Complimentary to "Yes"

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Housey
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2011/4/17 8:16

  • Housey

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  • Since: 2003/1/2 1



Thanks for the reply Mamba. The 'Save after step' was already set to yes not sure why. I'll give recaptcha a go.

Cheers!
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iunderwood
Re: Spam User Accounts

I've been getting a few of those too.

What I've been doing is writing at the bottom of the disclaimer that a certain field needs to have something in it. The field is technically optional, and spam bots have so far left it blank.

What I would like to see would be in my activation email to actually bring up a link to view the profile instead of just activating it blindly. Then again, I don't get a whole lot of new user attempts.
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hipoonios
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2011/4/17 13:55

  • hipoonios

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 298

  • Since: 2005/9/24


Oh yeah! I'm get a lot of them too.

You can try to change the default settings in image.php and config.image.php located in: class/captcha/ and see if that helps.

I got a hot tip from a friend of mine yesterday:

Hidden input field on the register process! Should this work? Not sure what the best way is to add it Xoops?

You can read more about it: here.
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seyacat
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2013/3/22 8:41

  • seyacat

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  • Since: 2004/5/8 1


The WORST thing i can do its update to 2.5, spam users are really anoying
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Mamba
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2013/3/22 9:18

  • Mamba

  • Moderator

  • Posts: 11409

  • Since: 2004/4/23


This was already discussed here somewhere:

1) in Profile's Registration Steps, in the Basic step, set the "Save after step" to "No"

2) in /class/captcha/config.php, make sure that the mode is set as "text":

Quote:
return $config = array(
'disabled' => false, // Disable CAPTCHA
'mode' => 'text', // default mode, you can choose 'text', 'image', 'recaptcha'(requires api key)
'name' => 'xoopscaptcha', // captcha name
'skipmember' => true, // Skip CAPTCHA check for members
'maxattempts' => 10, // Maximum attempts for each session
);


I'll change it in XOOPS 2.5.6 so we have "text" as default.
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seyacat
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2013/3/22 13:15

  • seyacat

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  • Since: 2004/5/8 1


Does't word
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Mamba
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2013/3/22 14:02

  • Mamba

  • Moderator

  • Posts: 11409

  • Since: 2004/4/23


Quote:
Does't word

What doesn't work?
Can you be more precise? I am sorry, but you need to be more detailed about what you've done, and what doesn't work...
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irmtfan
Re: Spam User Accounts

  • 2013/3/25 5:23

  • irmtfan

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 3419

  • Since: 2003/12/7


@mamba:
Im sure you enable sfs in xoops.org
Nowadays only a honey pot like sfs is working against spams and xoops Image captcha or text math captcha will not prevent today spammers.
Recaptha seems better but solving it is harder for humans than robots
But text option is working perfectly for those regions use local numbers in addition to most famous latin numbers (1,2,...)
e.g: i use it in xoops persian 2.5.5 release and no robot could pass it in the last 365 days because they just know latin numbers
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