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    Posted: 02 August 2010 at 4:16pm
I am getting two kinds of spam posts
>users who join my forum post one post full of links
>user post one liners one single post for signature backlinks

signature permissions in ver  10 would solve that, so not a problem in next version

but how do we handle links within posts (i have ALSO activated flood control. )
they posts one post at a time..

ANS>even links within posts should not be allowed to new members or certain group of members
que> If we could trace all posts with url or anchor tag in one command would reduce our cleaning time it takes lot of time manually visiting each post.



currently I have added following in bad word control filter
http, href, www, .com, .co, .info, org

any other way to avoid these spammers...they use different email address and spam from different ip address every time..

thanks
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The following documentation on spam prevention should help:-

http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp

Version 10 also has a new system developed for it where signatures, links, and images can be disabled for groups. This will allow you to disable these options for the new signup group, thus giving more control over preventing spam.
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all these are already implemented.
I will wait for version 10

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Looking forward to version 10 Bruce Thumbs Up
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Here is a list of IP ranges, (Mainly Chinese / India based), that have been registering on my forum to sneak in and post links whether in their posts or signatures.

You should suspend these, in the following format, it has decreased the amount of spam on my forum dramatically.

  • 111.172.*
  • 112.111.*
  • 117.26.*
  • 59.92.*
  • 111.*
  • 123.52.*
  • 123.53.*
  • 122.164.*
  • 118.70.*
 
Prior to banning these IP ranges, I did a good research to ensure that these ranges are unique to the ISP's in those regions of the world, not anyone else.
 
Here is how mine looks like, as of now:

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The IP location database at MaxMind is very useful for locating where an IP address or range is from:-

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip
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The problem with those IP blocks is that the automated submissions/bots are using open proxies on servers from around the world. So you end up having to ban IPs in every multiple locations and not particular to a country...
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Originally posted by WebWiz-Bruce WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

The IP location database at MaxMind is very useful for locating where an IP address or range is from:-

http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip

This is excellent, thank you.
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