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Subject: Going to have to do something different with the parody comments
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/27/06 at 9:38 am
The spammers are winning again. They're just dumping random garbage into the comments, no links, randomized IP addresses, etc. It's impossible to even figure out a pattern of how to block it anymore
Captcha's (those images of letters and numbers) are probably not much of an option either, I already see those getting bypassed on this site.
very, very annoying
Subject: Re: Going to have to do something different with the parody comments
Written By: Davester on 06/27/06 at 9:40 am
Captcha's (those images of letters and numbers) are probably not much of an option either, I already see those getting bypassed on this site.
very, very annoying
Just curious; how do spam-bots get past the captchas?
Subject: Re: Going to have to do something different with the parody comments
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/27/06 at 9:46 am
Just curious; how do spam-bots get past the captchas?
They screen scrape the captcha image, and show it to people and make them fill it in to see porn. Usually there isn't a timeout on a captcha so once they have it solved, they fill it in and continue the post. Or they just OCR it, a lot of OCR packages are pretty effective now, even the distorted ones can be translated with some accuracy.
We've been lucky it hasn't been worse, sooner. If I was using blog software that is used by hundreds of other sites, they'd have been hitting it harder, sooner.