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HI all

One of my moderators had to step in today to sort out some spam posts. He indicated that these were comming from unregistered users.
I'm sure that we have the place locked down to prevent that sort of activity but maybe i have missed something in the config.
We have implemented the facility that all new users have their posts routed for admin approval until they hit 10 approved posts. Cant think what else i may have missed.

Anyone got any pointers as to where to double check etc? We've been running now for nearly 6 years and have not had much in the way of bad spam attacks, but things do seem to be on an upward trend frown

For interest, the spammers IP was the same (93.174.93.5) located in the Holland.

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You need to check forum permissions for guests. And set them to 0
If all the posts are in one forum I would start with that one.
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There is a mod at UBBDev (here) that checks new user registrations against the database at Stop Forum Spam and if a user is listed it won't let them register. The IP you listed is in their spam database (here).


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Thanks for the tip - looks like there was a "hole" via the gust route for the couple of forums that were open to guests only.
These have now been closed down, and i have double checked the permissions on the rest.

Gizmo - i like the look of this hack very much (and so does one of my moderators smile ) - we may take the opportunity of trying it out this weekend.


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