Urgent Admin Action Needed!!!!

[dbhost]

Please ban user PLAIDGELD, they are linking porn video from the site.

[cgallery]

Yeah, and all six posts have the exact same set of photos!

[Black wallnut]

BANNED! Please if you as a member notice content that is not appropriate report it by using the "report post" button Red triangle with exclimation point in the upper right hand of the post. Also feel free to drop me a PM but cc to any or all of the moderators.

[pelligrini]

Has BT3central been slammed with spammer registrants today? I maintain another vBulletin site for our dart league and I banned over 25 new members in just a few hours.

[dbhost]

Two items.

#1. I never actually saw the posts. I will not open that sort of thing from the location I was at...

#2. Perhaps there should be a cooling off interval before a first post can be made, perhaps with some sort of acknowledge type of email sent to new registrants. (it's been a while since I signed up, I don't recall if this site required one).

#3. If you can identify where they are, I will buy the rubbing alcohol and thumb tacks. We can get busy with these creeps and make them wish they never took up the SPAM trade...

[Pappy]

I just reported another one.

[jussi]

Admins are quick. I reported one and the post was gone in like 5 minutes.

[jziegler]

Just a thought from another forum that I participate on (and joined recently). Does vBulletin have a setting that requires users with less than x posts to have new thread sent to a moderator for approval before the post shows up? I'm sure that it is designed as an anti-spam idea just for this reason. No approval was required for replies, so they can always get around it that way.

Jim

[LarryG]

Yesterday's porn spammers joined the forum using lengthy, nonsensical user names. This morning there are already three or four new "members" with user names which fit that same pattern. Could be another long day for the mods ...

[dbhost]

I tell ya guys. The way to stop this is to find them, strip them to their skivies, roll them in thumb tacks, and dip them in rubbing alcohol... They'll stop.

[JeffG78]

Apparently every vBulletin site has been slammed. It is suspected that there is a back door security leak as the typical registration security measures are not catching the spammers. The other sites I frequent have suspended registrations for now with a message stating the spam issue. I'm sure that potential new members will understand and wait a day or two to register. It's not a perfect solution, but will stop the posts until a security measure has been put into place.

[dbhost]

From what I have read, it has something to do with the CAPTCHA system. The scrambled text thing you have to type back in to verify...

The Vbulletin authors should have a patch up soon...

[pelligrini]

The more I've read on this, it's looking like someone finally got a bot to overcome the human verification protocalls, like Captcha, etc. I was getting about one every other day before.

I switched my site to moderate new members yesterday. I ended up banning over 45 spam artists.

[dbhost]

These varied SPAM registrations. Are they coming from a variety of IP addresses or the same ones? I know that some Forum software allows you to ban IP addresses, or IP ranges. Problem with that is, you can unintentially ban legitimate registrations.Slashdot news article. It definately looks like CAPTCHA got busted but good...

[pelligrini]

It looks like they're spoofing the IPs.

My other site is just a local one for our dart association. I just hadn't got around to the nuclear option, banning the IP ranges from china and Russia and all. Doesn't look like it will help with this latest infestation of spammers.