Re: Form Spam Attack

On Wednesday 30 Jul 2008, Dennis Powers wrote: If you must use one... at least use one that makes it easier to read. http://acoderslife.com/downloads/bhcaptcha/ I have had very good 100% (so far) success with this one. Really ? I would have thought the images were very easy to OCR... maybe

RE: Form Spam Attack

http://cf4em.com -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack On Wednesday 30 Jul 2008, Dennis Powers wrote: If you must use one... at least use one that makes it easier to read. http

Re: Form Spam Attack

On Thursday 31 Jul 2008, Bobby Hartsfield wrote: If/when they figure it out... (and if captchas still exist) I've thought about just ordering the images randomly and place them in the correct visual order with css. Yeah, the trouble is this is an arms race neither side can win. -- Tom

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Exactly... until we both blow each other up, it will keep on keepin on. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form

RE: Form Spam Attack

If you must use one... at least use one that makes it easier to read. http://acoderslife.com/downloads/bhcaptcha/ I have had very good 100% (so far) success with this one. We use it on any website that we do for the gaming industry. For clients who don't want captcha's on their forums I use a

Re: Form Spam Attack

I use a something similar. On the contact for you see an extra form field. The instructions say Please enter the XXXth word of this sentance. Where XXX is first through nineth, chosen randomly. While no where near perfect it works pretty well. And its fully accessible, unlike captchas.

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://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -Original Message- From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack captcha is nice On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great - first the SQL

Re: Form Spam Attack

Captcha drives me crazy. Sometimes on other folks sites I have to sit there and guess the freaking crooked letters four or five times before I get it right. Is that a lower case or upper case W - damn, got it wrong Sheesh.. AMEN! I detest captcha with a passion, it's rare that I get it

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23:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack Captcha drives me crazy. Sometimes on other folks sites I have to sit there and guess the freaking crooked letters four or five times before I get it right. Is that a lower case or upper case W - damn, got it wrong Sheesh.. AMEN! I detest

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careful, but that was a really really horrible user experience. Yuck. Will -Original Message- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2008 23:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack Captcha drives me crazy. Sometimes on other folks sites I have to sit

RE: Form Spam Attack

for the demo. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -Original Message- From: Phillip M. Vector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack I made up a quick addition of 2 numbers for a Captcha

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almost anyone who can use the computer can add 3+5 Some people can even do it without using a computer ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL

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captcha is nice On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great - first the SQL injection attack, now a web contact form spam attack. When you're using a contact form to send email, what can you do to prevent a bot from spamming the form? One of my sites just

RE: Form Spam Attack

LOL...that's a nice feature. -Original Message- From: Todd Rafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Form Spam Attack On my form, I have: span class=spampotlabel for=importantIt's important that you don't fill this out:/label

RE: Form Spam Attack

Add some kind of Captcha requirements -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Form Spam

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Cfformprotect. Look for it on ria forge. Works great! -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Form Spam Attack Great - first the SQL injection attack, now a web contact form spam attack. When you're

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Oddly, I use a css hack and I haven't gotten much from bots. I've gotten a few human spam messages though, but they were pretty unreadable. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great - first the SQL injection attack, now a web contact form spam attack.

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On my form, I have: span class=spampotlabel for=importantIt's important that you don't fill this out:/label input type=text name=important value= class=input_large //span I set the CSS style for spampot display: none; If it's ever filled out, I reject the message. Anyone using a modern day

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Or if for some reason captchas are not preferred then could do what a few web forums are doing which is ask the user a simple question which forces someone to actually read the screen and answering it before the form will submit/process. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Scott Stewart [EMAIL

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On my form, I have: span class=spampotlabel for=importantIt's important that you don't fill this out:/label input type=text name=important value= class=input_large //span Captcha drives me crazy. Sometimes on other folks sites I have to sit there and guess the freaking crooked letters

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I'm not saying Captcha is bad, but I hate running into it on a site myself, Same with me. I've always wonder if some bot really ever used some character recognition system so that it is necessary to distort text so badly. Another thing that bugs me about captcha is that in case you entered