Trevor Harmon schrieb:
Hi,
I've had success dealing with link spam by setting up the ConfirmEdit
extension, but a strange kind of vandalism continues to invade my
wiki. Several times each week, an anonymous user will add a nonsense
word (or words) to the top of a page. For example:
zbnpujhgr
And that's it! Just one word of gibberish (different gibberish each
time). Spam links or spammy-sounding text (e.g., penny-stock adverts)
are never added.
It's a different IP every time, so perhaps it's some sort of botnet
vandalizing a bunch of wiki sites. However, I don't know of anyone
New, "intelligent" bots able to go through ConfirmEdit?
A botnet/botnets collecting "editable" wiki web addresses, to sell them
later?
I'm not seeing it, although on one of my wikis using ConfirmEdit I'm
seeing several hundreds failed edits a day - action=edit, action=submit
few seconds later in logs, almost all from "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)";
different IP addresses.
Other possibility is your plugin is broken? Did you edit it manually etc.?
Have you considered using Captcha?
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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