Re: [Phpwiki-talk] More spam filtering

[Robert C. J. <ro...@ar...>]

On 25 Oct 2005 at 8:55, Dan Frankowski wrote:

> 
> I don't know what "Revert" does, but if it's just to the previous
> version, that's no good. Sometimes the spammers have changed the page
> multiple revisions before I see it.
> 
> Anyway, I don't have time to constantly guard myself, and 
> our community is not large. I need something to significantly 
> reduce the amount of incoming spam. I closed my site to 
> anonymous edits, but I'm getting killed again the last couple 
> of days.
> 
> I don't know if it's bots or not. I have to suspect bots. It looks
> kind of like bots.

My Wiki got annihilated by a (or several) bots at the end of last week. From the 
logs, I see up to three different IP addresses working at the same time. It 
appears that one or two IP addresses do the scanning, and the third IP address 
immediately submits the change.

I'll ban the IP addreses at the server level, but that's not going to fool them for 
long. They're probably zombie bots.

They replaced every page in my wiki, including all the help and style pages, 
and added spam to the first day of every month of the current year on all pages 
that used the calendar plugin.

Reverting this totally sucked.

> I am trying to enable a captcha upon login, but my PHP has 
> libgd issues at the moment. If that's not enough, I'll try to take the
> captcha-on-edit feature, too.
> 
> Right now, I'm in trouble.

I'm tryig to upgrade to 1.3.11p1, but I simply cannot get the upgrade to work. 
The ?action=upgrade does nothing, and all the pages come up blank. I've had 
to revert to 1.3.10.

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