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?
Spambot managed to register passed Human Test plugin
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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.
Posted 1 month ago # -
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).
Posted 1 month ago # -
Marius- - to remove him, just delete him in the admin.
Posted 1 month ago # -
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.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Here is a patch posted by me to mass-delete users, you may use it - http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1202
Posted 1 month ago #
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