On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Alec Mihailovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sage seems to be used for creating spam bots. In particular, the FrontPage
in Maple Wiki was corrupted yesterday from 193.53.87.109 with spam ending
with CategorySage, see
http://mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrontPage?action=diffrev1=3rev2=4
I'm not sure what you mean by Sage is being used to create spam bots.
Since you already had a CategorySage on your wiki, I don't see any
evidence that this is related to Sage in any way.
First, I didn't have
Still, the spam text contained it. I don't think that a bot was searching
for the pages in the wiki and randomly chose that one.
My guess is that the spam bot wanted to assign its page to a category,
and it can easily find the already existing categories on your wiki
from
My guess is that the spam bot wanted to assign its page to a category,
and it can easily find the already existing categories on your wiki
from http://mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/CategoryCategory
That could happen, with probability 20%.
Alec
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Alec Mihailovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That could happen, with probability 20%.
I guess in the end I'm not sure what you wanted to accomplish with
this thread. Are you saying that there is an individual associated to
the Sage project that is spamming your
I guess in the end I'm not sure what you wanted to accomplish with
this thread. Are you saying that there is an individual associated to
the Sage project that is spamming your wiki? Or that there is code in
Sage designed to spam your wiki? Or ...?
First, I wanted to know if there were
On Jul 15, 3:13 pm, Alec Mihailovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess in the end I'm not sure what you wanted to accomplish with
this thread. Are you saying that there is an individual associated to
the Sage project that is spamming your wiki? Or that there is code in
Sage designed to
Disabled automated account creation and turn on the text captcha. Just
because a spam bot uses a category X it has nothing to do with X. It
seems kind of counter productive to be associated with the culprit in
the first place. If *I* were to write a Sage spambot I would have it
claim to be
