bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:23:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 Marius- on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64300 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:29:59 +0000 Marius- 64300@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Chrishajer thank you. I somehow managed to completely ignore that button. Dont know why. I have deleted him now.

]]> Gautam on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64297 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:08:38 +0000 Gautam 64297@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here is a patch posted by me to mass-delete users, you may use it - http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1202

]]> chrishajer on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64290 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:33:05 +0000 chrishajer 64290@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Marius- when I am using 1.0.2, and I view the profile of a user when logged in as keymaster, I have a "Delete User" button on the bottom of their profile page. Do you not have that? That's how I delete a user if I have to (which almost never happens these days.)

Screenshot: http://twitpic.com/11zdpu/full

In addition to deleting them, you could just set their status to "inactive" as well, also on their profile page.

]]> johnhiler on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64286 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:20:34 +0000 johnhiler 64286@http://bbpress.org/forums/ You should be able to block the user without any plugins...

]]> Marius- on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64285 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:50:28 +0000 Marius- 64285@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Chrishajer, what you mean just delete him in the admin?
There is no way to delete users in bbpress.

Not without mass delete plugin, which i had to delete, because it screwed up my forum.

]]> chrishajer on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64280 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:34:07 +0000 chrishajer 64280@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Marius- - to remove him, just delete him in the admin.

]]> Gautam on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64274 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:21:52 +0000 Gautam 64274@http://bbpress.org/forums/ There are many bots like this (made in VB, etc.) which stops when they see a captcha (or math problem or a clickcha), waits for the user to enter/click that and then it does the rest. A more reliable way to be to install Project Honey Pot for bbPress plugin by Ben (though that also blocks the admin sometimes).

]]> kevinjohngallagher on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64273 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:05:13 +0000 kevinjohngallagher 64273@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Its been a while since i used this plugin, but as i recall it asked an X + Y = question (4+4 = 8).

Seems to me, as more and more people use this sort of protection, that spambots have become quite intelligent about reading the line before the <input> and seeing if it has a + in it. That seems fairly straightforward to do, i've done it myself when accessing a remote site using cURL to grab some data.

Either way, it's hardly a "plugin fail", because the plugin does exactly what its set out to do, not to mention, they could just be simply putting the answer "5" in every unknown field and eventually it would match.

You ask how is this possible, is it really beyond our imagination that a computer could answer a question about adding one digit to another? The only way to combat spam is to moderate constantly. Akismet, Human Test, Honey Pot and every other tool out there are just tools, they are not solutions. YOU are the solution.

]]> johnhiler on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64269 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:38:19 +0000 johnhiler 64269@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Spambots are constantly evolving. Do you have the latest version of Human Test plugin installed?

]]> Marius- on "Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spambot-managed-to-register-passed-human-test-plugin#post-64268 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:02:33 +0000 Marius- 64268@http://bbpress.org/forums/ How is this possible?
I have had Human Test installed, and managed to keep spambots out.
The Mass Delete plugin caused trouble to my bbpress, so I deleted that, but still a spambot managed to register. How can I remove him now?

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