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90 % of spambots aren't actually from the original source, but they are instead zombie machines. That is, average Joe's computer that is infected with malware to act as a spam slave without the average joe knowing. The real spammers never post from their true origin, or even themselves. Reporting abuse only removes one zombie machine from the worldwide hijacked computers that spam the internet, and even so it's with a very good chance it's an "innocent" person (technically they are responsible for their lack of firewall/antivirus on their computer, but semantics aside...
![]() The first step was to remove the Website field in the register page. Spam bots don't actually fill in the information in the blanks but just send a completed registration request, website included. In the usercp_register.php file I added code that checked for a website. If the website field wasn't empty I killed the registration request immediately. That hasn't worked for quite a while anymore, sadly. I get about 10 spambots a day with none of them having the website field entered ![]() Eventually there will have to be a new way to block bots, since even removing all fields from being input during registration, the bot makers will soon compensate. |
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