adult sites being posted in a foreign language

[tomashton]

from outside the USA

Forum URL: tomashton.proboards16.com

This person always comes on as a guest.

When you look in the general board and under the category letters - gtTTuCP...rLqOgGgs and under that is a bunch more letters and numbers and symbols, When you click on any part of the area it will take you to adult sites from outside of the USA, The language is actually in Chinese.

I looked up the IP addresses and they are from China, I have banned 9 IP addresses so far, And i have deleted all the posts from there, But they keep posting the same thing after a couple of days, I even sent a E-Mail to the IP provider in China, But it did not help.

What can be done next without limited registration.

I left one post of this person on the site for you to view.

Thank You,
Tom Ashton

[Snakeair]

tomashton said:

from outside the USA

Forum URL: tomashton.proboards16.com

This person always comes on as a guest.

When you look in the general board and under the category letters - gtTTuCP...rLqOgGgs and under that is a bunch more letters and numbers and symbols, When you click on any part of the area it will take you to adult sites from outside of the USA, The language is actually in Chinese.

I looked up the IP addresses and they are from China, I have banned 9 IP addresses so far, And i have deleted all the posts from there, But they keep posting the same thing after a couple of days, I even sent a E-Mail to the IP provider in China, But it did not help.

What can be done next without limited registration.

I left one post of this person on the site for you to view.

Thank You,
Tom Ashton

That's a Chinese spam bot. Banning the IP will not make it go away forever. If you disable guests from posting in your boards that bot will never come back. The admins do know about this bot but don't have a permanent solution to stop that from happening.

[tomashton]

Snakeair, Thank you for your response, I really do not want to disable guests from posting, So i guess i will have to deal with it.

[Snakeair]

tomashton said:

Snakeair, Thank you for your response, I really do not want to disable guests from posting, So i guess i will have to deal with it.

Your welcome. You could try out this code and see if it helps. support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70493

[tomashton]

Snakeair, I put that code into my global headers and footers, But i think i did something wrong, Because i have error message on the bottom of the 1ST page it says the following -

script type="text/javascript">

Plus when i bring up my site, It says done, but with errors on page, Also i believe the same person posted the same type of stuff on my site again, I deleted it, But with the possible errors that i made putting the code into the headers and footers, I think that was the main reason why they still were able to still post.

Can you or possibly Craig look to see if i put the code in properly and if not, Can you or Craig fix it for me, Thank you.

[Snakeair]

That code that needs to be fixed is the prevent spamming one. It looks like this in your footer.

script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/*
Help prevent spamming (Global Footer)
by Todge
Copyright © 2006
Please keep this header intact
*/

Should be this

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/*
Help prevent spamming (Global Footer)
by Todge
Copyright © 2006
Please keep this header intact
*/

You was missing a < in the code. Craig will be back tomorow morning to support. You can bump the thread in 24 hours and await his response.

[tomashton]

bump

[Craig]

Ok, that should be fine now.

[tomashton]

Craig, Thank You.

[Craig]

no problem mate

[tomashton]

When I go to my site, It says done, But with errors on page, And the Chinese spam bot is still posting on my site, I want the Chinese spam bots to hopfully go away, Thanks.

[Craig]

tomashton said:

When I go to my site, It says done, But with errors on page, And the Chinese spam bot is still posting on my site, I want the Chinese spam bots to hopfully go away, Thanks.

Remove the code altogether and readd it.

[tomashton]

Sorry it took me so long to repost this.

I deleted the code and readded it about 3 or 4 times before i finally got no errors on the page, But I still am getting spam posted on my site from the Chinese spam bot.

Do you have any more ideas what i can do to prevent this from keep happening besides having to approve every new member, And i really do not want to close the site to guests.

I actually left the latest post on my site in case you want to see it.

thank you.

[Jim Elliott]

Close the board to guests. If people have nothing to hide, they will register. That will solve your problem.

[tomashton]

I set the settings so i would have to approve all new accounts, But i left the board open so guests can still view it, But somehow the spam bot posted a message as a guest, I only had 1 new member pending during that time frame, I approved the new member, But he has not posted anything.

How can a guest post something if i have it set to approve all new accounts, I even logged off my site and registered as a new member But it would not let me post anything until i was approved.