I don't know if this is an option for you but I thought I would throw it out there for consideration.
I had some comment spam on my blog for some world of warcraft gold sites (whatever TF *that* is). I had a captcha on it but they were getting around that. So I added a snippet of code that would sniff out the names of these sites and if I got a positive I would Rick Roll their dumb asses. The comment spam came to an abrupt halt after that. Just a thought. G! On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Kris Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > > Not even suggesting it can't be done. Of course it can be done, and with > fairly basic skills. However, I can tell, from at least 2 of the most > egregious offenders, that they are getting links inserted (with success) on > other sites. So it's not just our site. > > And yeah, many of the IPs (that aren't spoofed) are eastern european in > origin, or resolve to the Philippines. > > Would still like to stop this in it's tracks. Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Kris > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Peter Boughton <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > If they are clicking on the email links as well, that's pretty > > > advanced.. > > > > No its not. It's simple. > > > > A small challenge for a general purpose one, but trivial if you're > > targeting a specific site/application. > > > > If you know how to use cfpop, rematch and cfhttp, you can throw an email > > validation link clicker together in mere minutes. > > > > > > For beating captchas, it depends on how complex they are: a lot of them > can > > be beaten by OCR, and the rest can be beaten by cheap labour in eastern > > europe/russian/etc. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
