HELP! I'm getting spammed!

[AshMCairo]

OK, someone is spamming my site with some kind of script posting a bunch of comments. How to I stop them? How do I turn off registration?

PLEASE HELP!!!

[bbrian017]

I'm getting the same thing and I can't keep up on it they are too fast all .info please help

[AshMCairo]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

I'm getting the same thing and I can't keep up on it they are too fast all .info please help

For now I renamed the register.php to stop the bot. I need a better solution though.

[bbrian017]

How did you do that? well I can assume I guess change the url in header and the name of the register file?

[AshMCairo]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

How did you do that? well I can assume I guess change the url in header and the name of the register file?

Actually, my method was a bit crude. I when it the FTP side and renamed the file for now. I haven't done anything else yet as I'm trying to clean up the spam.

[Prophet Tenebrae]

I'm sorry to report that my site is also being targeted. More comments every few seconds and more users...

There HAS to be something we an do?

[bbrian017]

yes for now until admin and dev do something rename your register.php oin your ftp

Also you can mass edit comments using the Comment Management link in your admin cp

[AshDigg]

A very basic Akismet anti-spam module is available here. Please let me know (in that thread) if it works. Also, it only monitors NEW submissions and comments, will not do anything about existing stuff.

[bbrian017]

My idea was bad sorry I edited the post :)

[bbrian017]

What happens when the bots start making posts with the 100++ members it signed up?

What are we going to do Ash can we delete these users some how? not 1 by 1 but in a mass delete?