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BlueStocking
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

EDIT ADDON AGAIN:
I went to visit Bearcat athttp://www.philsbearcatland.com/ and his rss feed has been hacked.

Which reminds me,

the rss feed that is onhttp://xoopswiki.org that did link to xoopsinfo.com is not active anymore.

Anyone know... what happened???
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BlueStocking
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

When Dreamweaver first started the swf programing I signed up to be a beta tester. Back then a real danger layed in what could be embedded in the code. (logo, as I remember.)

After the beta testing was over I didn't go on with the next releases. But even now I don't knowingly click on .swf files. They aren't worth the risk from my point of view.

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incama
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

  • 2007/8/16 16:05

  • incama

  • Friend of XOOPS

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  • Since: 2003/10/24


Yes sorry David for not mentioning the potential danger the site can and may behold, but after seeing/scanning the movie it looked alright to me.

Here's another article (from yesterday) about bots that register hotmail and gmail accounts as basis for the spam runs (sorry, article is in Dutch, maybe I will translate it later on)

Link:
http://core.tweakers.net/nieuws/48918/Trojan-maakt-webmailaccounts-aan-voor-versturen-spam.html
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McDonald
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

  • 2007/8/16 15:08

  • McDonald

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Another interesting article about spam:

The Register: Webmail-creating Trojan targets Gmail

Dutch version is available here.
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Dave_L
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

  • 2007/8/16 14:31

  • Dave_L

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2277

  • Since: 2003/11/7


incama, thanks for that link.

Here's the home page for the product that the .swf is demonstrating: botmaster DOT net

They claim to be able to defeat sophisticated CAPTCHAs.

Warning: You may want to be careful if you visit that site, especially if you're using a security-flawed browser such as IE.
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incama
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

  • 2007/8/16 11:24

  • incama

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  • Since: 2003/10/24


Here a vid how these messages are created, most impressive. (not that I'm pro spam)

http://blogs.pandasoftware.com/blogs/images/PandaLabs/2007/07/24/xrumer.swf




edit: link added
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sailjapan
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

captchas. Worked for me.
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BlueStocking
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

EDIT ADDON:
Just tried to vist Jensclas and she is out of business too. Hacking and spam has to go....
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DarinAllan
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

NetQuery?
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McDonald
Re: Spam and how do we deal with it?

  • 2007/8/15 19:21

  • McDonald

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GIJOE's module Protector (latest version is 3.11 beta) has some kind of SPAM protection for comment, trackback etc.
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