On 20/11/2007, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen people try to maliciously substitute in Cyrillic characters that look identical to Latin ones, but this just looks like a mis-programmed bot. I have absolutely no idea what this could be trying to accomplish, but if you want to target it directly, you could probably black- or graylist those characters. Of course, that's moot if you set the CAPTCHA in the way I suggested.
On Nov 19, 2007 9:53 PM, Seth Marbin smarbin@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Emufarmers for the advice... I have still yet to implement, but just noticed something and wonder if others are seeing it too.
On my wiki the bot is not just inserting random gibberish words, it is also changing symbols to strange characters. For example as seen here< http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Captain%27s_Coming%21&diff...
:
" (a quote symbol) becomes รข (the letter a with an accent)
Yeah - it seems that the bot is reading in the whole page, into a string, sticking its 'calling card' at the front ;-), and then submitting the whole string back to the wiki, screwing up special characters as it goes. This is only annoying if you accidentally delete the spam word instead of undoing the whole edit.
any other theories or solutions?
On Nov 3, 2007 8:31 PM, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 3, 2007 9:31 PM, Seth Marbin smarbin@gmail.com wrote:
I have been having the same problem (random gibberish edits) on my teampedia.net for the past few weeks. I am already using ConfirmEdit, but only have the default setting
enabled
(thus no captcha for all edits).
I am considering two options:
- Disabling anonymous edits (i.e. requiring users to register before
editing/adding)
- Changing it so the captchas trigger on any edit.
Any advice about which way to go?
The least obtrusive option would be a combination of the two: Enable the CAPTCHA for unregistered users' edits, and for registration attempts,
but
let logged-in users edit freely.
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