Spam in Link-only Forum

wiredfutureman · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:42 am

- Software Version: Integramod 1.4.0, phpBB 2.0.19
- Server: Suse Linux 9.3 (Apache 2, Php4 with Zend, MySQL 4)

Hi all,

Bit of a bizarre one this:

http://www.ironlions.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=3936#3936

[flash=,]http://www.ironlions.co.uk/images/spam1.jpg[/flash]

This is not actually a forum that you can post to! The "Paintball Classifieds" just link to another forum and my options in the ACP tell me that:

a) All post would be deleted
b) Nobody can post but all can view

[flash=,]http://www.ironlions.co.uk/images/spam2.jpg[/flash]

No clue how this happend. Anybody? Please.. :-)

MTIA

Axel

wiredfutureman · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:44 am

*bump*

I'm really a bit concerned about people / bots being able to post somewhere they for all intend and purpose cannot post. Could it be an SQL injection problem or something to do with PHP being vunerable?

ALFd · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:42 pm

I have the same problem.. it has been occuring more and more on my forums..

is there any light on this subject at all?

because Daily I get posts from "Guest" posting porn spam and this needs to stop now.

ALFd · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:10 am

*bump*

This is getting worse.. it used to be once in a while.. now its almost everyday. can someone please look into this.

Teelk · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:22 pm

Did the bot that posted these also sign up to the forums as a user? Could be as easy as banning the user. Although, I'd advise to install an IP tracker. Austin has a decent one at http://www.phpbb-tweaks.com so that you can ban the IP as well.

ALFd · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:07 pm

no user signed up.. usually "guest" posts.. but some times a random username posts as well..

its not good at all.. I use the links mod to post links I want to count how many click on it.

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