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Prices for breaking CAPTCHAs is about $0.008 to $0.005 per image in packs of 1000 to 100000 images. It works something like this: Bot hits your page, detects captcha => send CAPTCHA to company ABC, employee answers CAPTCHA => answer is send back to the bot who can now subscribe/submit/SPAM They have humans sitting at the computer doing nothing but answering CAPTCHA challenges so your bot can keep on working. There was an article on Slashdot a few months ago about companies in 3rd World Countries offering "a guaranteed CAPTCHA breaking service". And even when the 100% SPAM bot protection CAPTCHA is created it will simply be circumvented by cheap labor. The more people use any given system the more incentive a SPAM bot writer has to write a bot to break the CAPTCHA. It get more and more reports from users that Re-CAPTCHA has become useless. Smartys is correct, using one system everywhere is never a good idea. This modification solves the issue of mass-spamming but does not protect against a targeted attack a CAPTCHA would protect (somewhat) against mass-spamming and targeted attacks, with the downside that as a specific system becomes more used, it will be more likely to be attacked restrictions on links in signatures, posts, etc would discourage targeted attacks (since there's no reason to target your site if the link won't go through) but do nothing to stop mass-spamming (since mass-spammers care about the quantity of their efforts, not the quality). Spam is a complex issue and there is no panacea for it. That doesn't take away from the fact that it does cut down on a specific type of spam.
#Forum spam bot full#
A bot that targets a specific site (and thus can afford to have a full list of answers) or a user registering manually could bypass this protection. It requires the person registering to answer a question that a computer, stumbling upon the page, could not answer. This modification stops general spam attacks aimed at FluxBB forums or at forms in general.
#Forum spam bot mod#
That's not what this mod is for, however.
#Forum spam bot crack#
Or, couldn't someone crack the entire user generated list manually and feed it to their bot? FluxBB database type can only be mysql, mysqli or pgsql MySQL (tested with 5.1.35) or PostgreSQL (tested with 8.3.7) PHP5 and ONLY PHP5, don't think about running this with PHP4!!!
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Apache Webserver, only tested with Apache 2.2.x The guide is very long and not very user friendly but I will clean it up today. You can find the current guide at the URL below. htacess or problems with getting the whois information. Possible problems might be a conflict with existing rules in. The system is brand new and I have only tested it on my own two servers so I am posting here to see if people are willing to test the new CAPTCHA system. Users may remove their own IP from the blocklist in case of "accidental abuse" or dynamic IP which was previously assigned to a bot. This will block access to the entire domain, preventing further abuse. If the user's IP is not on the whitelist it will be added to the. This will prevent good bots like Google, Yahoo and the like from being blocked. Before blocking the IP, the script will retrieve the whois information for the user's IP and match it against a whitelist rule. The other major change is that an abusing user or bot will be added to the. Here is a screenshot of the management screen for FluxBB: It is also independent of FluxBB and can be used to protect any form on a website with a CAPTCHA and even has the ability to act as a bot trap. This makes adding/removing questions and answer very easy. The new system works very similar to the old but it does not store questions in a text file but uses as database table instead. Some of you may have seen my previous CAPTCHA mod for FluxBB/PunBB here: EDIT: If you are using this then you might want to check out this new thread: