I have been getting an average of 5 or 6 spam user accounts created per day on my site of the "buy Viagra type. I just installed two extensions in the hope of blocking future attacks.
1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Title_Blacklist 2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
I will let you guys know if it worked.
Jake4d www.debatrix.org
-----Original Message----- From: Jake Ford [mailto:jake@debatrix.org] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:51 AM To: 2007@gmaskfx.com; 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
I recently started getting the same spam. I am going to install the SpamBlacklist extension tonight or tomorrow and will let you know how it works.
Jake4d using v1.14
-----Original Message----- From: 2007@gmaskfx.com [mailto:2007@gmaskfx.com] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:53 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
Is anybody else getting tons of user registrations that have spam in the user pages and the usernames are soemthing like "180 buy Viagra"?
I haven't had a chance to test it but doesn't the keyword blacklist block the usage of those words in usernames and userpages?
Also is there a better captcha available.. this bot is getting around the math question
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