Any ideas?
I'm away from home to a funeral and am staying with friends, so I cannot log in here as often as I can from home. I have just chucked out some 40+ spam posts. I plan now, for a period, not to accept any new forum members who try to register, to see if that helps.
Inger,
Is it possible this software is more prone to attacks than other forum SW? Maybe its time to make a change and use something more up to date spam wise?
Inger, sorry for your loss.
Thank you, kodydog.
I found some settings that I applied, and that might help. The change may, however, also affect your own posting, in that you may have to answer security questions. Try it out, and let me know what you think.
Testing for security questions.
NO SECURITY QUESTIONS ASKED HERE.
If what I've done works correctly, you must make more than two posts fairly soon after each other. I didn't want to makeit too cumbersome for you. ;) Just post in this thread a couple of test messages. i'll get rid of them afterwards.
Also, it would be interesting to see what happens if one or two of you would try to register, under a different user name and mail address. And please post here which user name you use, so that I can let you in.
This is a test. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, you would've notified where to tune for further instructions. This concludes this test. We now return you to regular programming.
T^o post or not to post
you guys are silly.
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I could only post once. I get the error of I just posted in the last few seconds or something like that, I have gotten this error all along sometimes even when I only try to post once. This forum sw is buggy. I also have posed several times over the years and the post never shows up. Just a FYI Admin.
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Thanks for testing. I will remove those test posts in a day or two.
I found a way to set a 'CAPTCHA', you know one of those things with some jumbled up letters and numbers with some lines going through, and also a place to set security questions. I actually thought this would have been done long time ago, before I got involved in this.
I registered myself with a different user name and address and found that the captcha was quite difficult to read, so I may remove it and add a third security question instead. Anyway, I have seen no spam since I did this.
Would some of you try to go through the registering process, to see if it seems too difficult?
I registered as denco. You can delete it.
I got the message saying that admin. must approve before I can start using the account. I believe that in the past, Ken didn't want to have to take the time to approve everyone, so that's probably why we never had captcha or security questions.
I didn't have any problems, though.
I tried registering and couldn't get the captcha thing right. Might be my old eyes but I gave up.,
Thanks for your help. I will remove thr captcha and instead create a third scurity question, as I also had problems with the captcha myself.
'Denco'has been sent a mail to activate the account, so that we can see the whole process.
I don't know how Ken did it, but I have been sending out those activating mails ever since I took over. But that is apparently not enough. I just yesterday discovered the further protection bu adding the captcha and the security questions.
So far it seems to work well.
I clicked on the link to activate the "denco" account. I was able to login as denco, but when I tried to post a reply here, I got an error message saying that I was not allowed access.
Testing with my "alter ego"...
Ok, I had done something wrong which I have now corrected.
Ok, how about now?
Now I can post as denco. I guess I just didn't wait long enough.
Seems to work. I'll delete both your and my second profiles then...
Back home now. Since I made those security changes I have had just one person applying for membership. I've just replied with the usual activation mail. it remains to see whether that is a spammer or not.
The violent flood of spam started right after the forum had been upgraded. I wonder if some of the security settings were in place before that, but were overwritten somehow in the upgrade process.
Great news - Many Thanks
SA
I have noticed these last few days the spam activity has disappeared. Thanks Inger.
Learn english? Bwahahaha. Inger you have got to leave that one up so we can have a field day with it.
OK, you can keep it. ;) I have banned the poster, though, so he will have to go someplace else to learn English.
bummer!!