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tom_3

Oct 30 2006, 04:06 PM

topic says it all.
the same peaple have been signed on for two days..
is this just on my end....

i don't really care just trying to understand....

jamie

Oct 30 2006, 11:14 PM

Its a couple of bots I think, not sure what they are up to. Might shutdown the accounts if I can prove it.

tom_3

Oct 30 2006, 11:18 PM

i was thinking the same thing, just didnt want to ruffle any feathers....
they seem to be active ...but you can see more than me.

tom_3

Oct 30 2006, 11:41 PM

sorry about the double post ..
but i was snooping around and noticed a search engine link on the bottom of there profiles...
dont no if you noticed or not...

and the link dont work..

serges2

Oct 31 2006, 03:20 AM

Yup, noticed as well but didn't really pay attention till Tom mentioned it, have a feeling there is something very strange going on there, followed their 'last clicks' while it was up, all very strange, 4 or 5 lurkers, unlikely all joining within several days of each other, maybe waiting for/to exploit a flaw? Who knows, which brings me to something I mentioned before, a couple of more required fields on the registration, nothing major or prying, but something that might help the mods weed out such interlopers (so sorry if yer not) may be in order (like hobbies, pet peeves or some such). Didn't notice the search engine link tom3, bizarre imo. Just a thought from the wet coast.

tom_3

Oct 31 2006, 01:14 PM

the search engine link is in the signature portion of there profile..
it points to some euro search info link..well hate to beat a dead horse so ill get over it and move on...

well at 8:14 am my time its seems the dead horse was buried..

serges2

Nov 13 2006, 10:43 AM

You read it here first!
A GNz exclusive? Dunno but it is news of a sort I think.

My insatiable curiosity and my over-all hate of spammers got me on a Google hunt this morning. As some may have noticed there have been some strange goings on with some new mystery members, ones listing euro-search.info in their profiles. So I started with that as my search and low, all I got was turned around and pointed at a bunch of pages for French businesses eventually, not what I was looking for gah, I'd forgotten the hyphen. Next search I hit paydirt (so ta speak), voila, at least 7 different forums hit by the same sort of thing, all Invision Power Boards v2.1.7 or v2.1.6, among them chiangdao.com (interesting as the bots were listed as admins lol), silentwrytes.com (who seem to have closed their forums to outsiders, have no idea what they are about), santabarbara.com, poolspforum.com, pf.invisionzone.com and putera.com (some sort of other tech site in a language unknown to me). All suffering the same thing, spambots of some sort. All the suspects had a couple of things in common, all signed up on or around October 23-24 '06, all had euro-search.com non working links in their profiles and many had another lengthly list of links starting with 'republica.pl/products*** or .pl/casinos***', most were 'idling' as Tom wisely coined (reading board indexes, ya right lol) without any posts. The ones that did post, and I have little doubt this is all linked together somehow with the idlers, used the same style of spam, incorporating real members names in the start of their spews, weird links to credit card co.s, perscription drugs, singles sites, and other crap. Obviously these are not benign actions and, it seems to me, that these attacks should be taken seriously and treated as security risks by all sites hit and by the Invision Board folks. I am hoping by writing this that people on the other sites will run into this information and act accordingly on their own boards to nip this in the bud. I am not an expert in these matters by any means but there have to be measures that can be taken to filter this sort of abuse out, hopefully there might be something Invision can do to come up with a solution or two for their customers in response to these virtual parasites. Thats the story so far. think I'll get brave and try some of the other bot links and see if I can find a common thread to them, hm, raise security first me thinks.

Regards,

Serge

tom_3

Nov 14 2006, 09:18 PM

there's never a cop around when you need one...

iam starting to think this is a inside job..
please tell me iam wrong

D3m0n

Nov 26 2006, 12:22 PM

Its an conspiracy.

*plays some x-files music*

tom_3

Nov 26 2006, 07:43 PM

nah,i really dont think so.just wondering why they dont kick and or ban them.
do somthing before its to late..

tom_3

Nov 26 2006, 11:44 PM

and there all about the same size 38.81 KB (39,746 bytes)

jamie

Nov 27 2006, 08:26 PM

Probably someone experimenting with a new Bot, Can you guys PM me usernames you come across please, I will do some delete's and keep an eye on new sign ups.

serges2

Nov 28 2006, 09:44 AM

Yup. Silly fammin spuggers.

GLACK!

So Tom, interesting eh?

James, please delete any member on said date (I believe Oct. 23-24), ban their IPs, whatever, this has been discussed. I think its a group effort, a nice bit of 'bottery'.

:cheers:

tom_3

Nov 28 2006, 12:23 PM

yes serge it is kinda interesting.
i to hate spammers i get plenty in my inbox i dont need to see it on one of my home forums.
and geeknewz is such a nice place to live....

jamie

Nov 28 2006, 10:12 PM

Deleted a couple, they seem to have left us alone at any rate so lets see.

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