[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

Seth Marbin smarbin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 23:59:24 UTC 2009


I have also been getting these same stupid user accounts lately on
www.teampedia.netI have ConfirmEdit installed with the SimpleCaptcha....
please let me know how the blacklists work!
-Seth


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jake Ford <jake at debatrix.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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 at debatrix.org]
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:51 AM
> To: 2007 at 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 at gmaskfx.com [mailto:2007 at 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
>
> AD
>
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