I have been getting an average of 5 or 6 spam user accounts created per day on my site of the "buy Viagra type. I just installed two extensions in the hope of blocking future attacks.
1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist 2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist I will let you guys know if it worked. Jake4d www.debatrix.org -----Original Message----- From: Jake Ford [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:51 AM To: [email protected]; 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues I recently started getting the same spam. I am going to install the SpamBlacklist extension tonight or tomorrow and will let you know how it works. Jake4d using v1.14 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:53 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues Is anybody else getting tons of user registrations that have spam in the user pages and the usernames are soemthing like "180 buy Viagra"? I haven't had a chance to test it but doesn't the keyword blacklist block the usage of those words in usernames and userpages? Also is there a better captcha available.. this bot is getting around the math question AD _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
