I have installed and created a new form with phpFormGenerator. The form works perfectly with one exception. I am now the recipient of tons of SPAM. How is this possible, and how do I stop the SPAM?
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This is the craziest complain as of yet. Dude ... phpFormGenerator is not a robot.. it doesn't go around sending information to users or administrators for no apparant reason. If some user fills out a form, it will send it to you. If you do not want it to email the results, then don't give it your email address! have it store the data in a database table. If you don't want that either, just delete the damn form. sheesh
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You make it sound like I'm crazy or stupid. I assure you I am neither.
The emails have only started to occur after creating this new form. Here is a header from one of the emails. Most of the email addresses don't even exist. I do recognize the pass6.dizinc.com as this was the name given after the phpFormGenerator name specified in the From section of the mail command in process.php. The email was sent properly, the header listed the From address as phpFormGenerator@pass6.dizinc.com. Some time later I received 374 mail messages with headers like the one listed below.
Return-path: <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
Received: from c-24-34-210-197.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.34.210.197] helo=leescomputer)
by pass6.dizinc.com with smtp (Exim 4.50)
id 1Dn5rq-0005Ia-8K
for tnteveret1@comcast.net; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:30:30 -0400
Message-ID: <003201c57b89$345eef20$c5d22218@aoldsl.net>
From: "Lee Everett" <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
To: "Tom & Tracey Everett" <tnteveret1@comcast.net>
Subject: Fw: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:24:47 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002F_01C57B67.0677F560"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
Disposition-Notification-To: "Lee Everett" <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
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From: "Mail Delivery System" <MAILER-DAEMON@web.nonima.hu>
To: <albrecht.kahnalbrecht.kahn@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:57 AM
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
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for <csillo@wiw.hu>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:50:55 +0200 (CEST)
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Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:49:14 +0000
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:49:14 +0000
Subject: Are you ready to get it?
From: "Iesha Petty" <albrecht.kahnalbrecht.kahn@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
To: csillo@wiw.hu
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X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
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so let me get this straight. you are basically saying that just because you got a ton of spam emails after phpFormGenerator sent you an email with submitted form data, it is obvious that the program was responsible for the spam? Are you stupid? And why have you included the email headers? There is not a single trace of phpFormGenerator in them. You should be more careful about protecting your private content in other areas and not try to speculate that a simple form generator would be responsible for making your life a living hell.
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I'm saying that only after installing phpFormgenerator I got the SPAM after filling in my first form "form results sent to my email". I continued to ge tthe SPAM until I uninstalled phpFormgenerator. I no longer receive the SPAM because I no longer use the SW. Since phpFormgenerator has no security whatsoever it is entirely possible that someone found my installation and was attempting to use it for some other purpose. However it was being done it stopped when I uninstalled the SW.
People like you give tech support a bad name. Thanks for nothing.
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I think you didn't protect your php files and someone used your installation. Thats my best guess.
I use this form since 40 days without a mistake.
Check your process.php and global.inc.php They shouldn't be modded 0777. But 0644. The rest is 0777
Besides, this php form has NO support, and it was never promised. You use it at your own risk.
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dude i'm not sitting here providing tech support. I'm just doing a curtosey to people ... I have created the damn program and released it for free.. . I think thats a favor enough. Now if you think that I'll be providing technical support to the 100 thousand plus users for not a penny in return, you have seriously got to be kidding me.
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I have installed and created a new form with phpFormGenerator. The form works perfectly with one exception. I am now the recipient of tons of SPAM. How is this possible, and how do I stop the SPAM?
This is the craziest complain as of yet. Dude ... phpFormGenerator is not a robot.. it doesn't go around sending information to users or administrators for no apparant reason. If some user fills out a form, it will send it to you. If you do not want it to email the results, then don't give it your email address! have it store the data in a database table. If you don't want that either, just delete the damn form. sheesh
You make it sound like I'm crazy or stupid. I assure you I am neither.
The emails have only started to occur after creating this new form. Here is a header from one of the emails. Most of the email addresses don't even exist. I do recognize the pass6.dizinc.com as this was the name given after the phpFormGenerator name specified in the From section of the mail command in process.php. The email was sent properly, the header listed the From address as phpFormGenerator@pass6.dizinc.com. Some time later I received 374 mail messages with headers like the one listed below.
Return-path: <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
Received: from c-24-34-210-197.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.34.210.197] helo=leescomputer)
by pass6.dizinc.com with smtp (Exim 4.50)
id 1Dn5rq-0005Ia-8K
for tnteveret1@comcast.net; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:30:30 -0400
Message-ID: <003201c57b89$345eef20$c5d22218@aoldsl.net>
From: "Lee Everett" <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
To: "Tom & Tracey Everett" <tnteveret1@comcast.net>
Subject: Fw: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:24:47 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002F_01C57B67.0677F560"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
Disposition-Notification-To: "Lee Everett" <goldenra@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: affiliate@goldenrainbowtreasures.com,goldenra,info@goldenrainbowtreasures.com,lee153@goldenrainbowtreasures.com,lee@goldenrainbowtreasures.com,newsletters@goldenrainbowtreasures.com,webmaster@goldenrainbowtreasures.com
From: "Mail Delivery System" <MAILER-DAEMON@web.nonima.hu>
To: <albrecht.kahnalbrecht.kahn@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:57 AM
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by antispam.zl.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709DDBEA01
for <csillo@wiw.hu>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:50:55 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from web.nonima.hu ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (web.nonima.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP
id 29622-10 for <csillo@wiw.hu>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:50:54 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from ?kamakazimail.com (unknown [222.184.162.3])
by web.nonima.hu (Postfix) with SMTP id D236ABE929
for <csillo@wiw.hu>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:50:49 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from 64.246.50.105
(SquirrelMail authenticated user albrecht.kahnalbrecht.kahn@goldenrainbowtreasures.com);
by kamakazimail.com with HTTP id J85Gz033115218;
Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:49:14 +0000
Message-Id: <FAPpPA.squirrel@64.246.50.105>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:49:14 +0000
Subject: Are you ready to get it?
From: "Iesha Petty" <albrecht.kahnalbrecht.kahn@goldenrainbowtreasures.com>
To: csillo@wiw.hu
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nonima.hu
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
so let me get this straight. you are basically saying that just because you got a ton of spam emails after phpFormGenerator sent you an email with submitted form data, it is obvious that the program was responsible for the spam? Are you stupid? And why have you included the email headers? There is not a single trace of phpFormGenerator in them. You should be more careful about protecting your private content in other areas and not try to speculate that a simple form generator would be responsible for making your life a living hell.
I'm saying that only after installing phpFormgenerator I got the SPAM after filling in my first form "form results sent to my email". I continued to ge tthe SPAM until I uninstalled phpFormgenerator. I no longer receive the SPAM because I no longer use the SW. Since phpFormgenerator has no security whatsoever it is entirely possible that someone found my installation and was attempting to use it for some other purpose. However it was being done it stopped when I uninstalled the SW.
People like you give tech support a bad name. Thanks for nothing.
I think you didn't protect your php files and someone used your installation. Thats my best guess.
I use this form since 40 days without a mistake.
Check your process.php and global.inc.php They shouldn't be modded 0777. But 0644. The rest is 0777
Besides, this php form has NO support, and it was never promised. You use it at your own risk.
dude i'm not sitting here providing tech support. I'm just doing a curtosey to people ... I have created the damn program and released it for free.. . I think thats a favor enough. Now if you think that I'll be providing technical support to the 100 thousand plus users for not a penny in return, you have seriously got to be kidding me.