Webcrawler/Spammer Thread

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:20 pm

I don't think the guest needs a warning.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:21 pm

They dont. Oh, and if that idiots reading this, you've been warned.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:21 pm

It would be cool to be a tempory admin...

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:25 pm

soundwave wrote:I don't think the guest needs a warning.

I meant that for registered people. It's appropriate to ban a guest (especially in this instance)if they're are pulling crap like this guy.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:30 pm

Dave wrote:this guy.

I don't think this is a person. It sounds more like a spam bot crawling Google for juicy sites (like benheck.com forums).

This "guest" might start browsing profiles, so be sure to remove all links and emails from your profiles!

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:31 pm

Nice, you just gave em ideas!
The wierd thing is the spammers ip keeps changing.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:34 pm

HK-47 wrote:Nice, you just gave em ideas!
The wierd thing is the spammers ip keeps changing.

Two options disable guest posting, and put robots.txt on, or shut down the board.

As in "em" I imagine that you are refering to a person. This is centanally not a person, just a dumb bot.

I hid my email, and my MSN. I suggest all others also do the same.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:34 pm

What happened, did someone disable images in signatures?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:36 pm

No, images are working for others.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:55 pm

HK-47 wrote:No, images are working for others.

What happened to me?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:57 pm

No idea, but check my post in the book forum, it images dont work there either.
Also, that bugger just spamed some more, but I think I got them all. I hope Ben can deal with this soon.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:58 pm

I fixed em' by removing my links. I didn't need those anyways.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:02 pm

HK-47, direct all web crawler related posts to my thread, ok, so we don't spam up this one. I would move them, just I'm not a mod (or admin...)

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:54 pm

The spammers ip is 80.58.xx.xx
"x" Being any number. Ben can you please ban this IP range?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:12 pm

The spammers ip is 80.58.xx.xx

You should make sure that no one else is using that ip.