So, about 30 seconds later our first spam post was submitted. There was the usual blurb about how truly wonderful a certain web site was, plus a link. The usual crap which nobody in their right mind would fall for anyway. (Would they?)
Anyway, Big Brother - aka Norm - was watching and both the page and user account are now toast. Gone. Lost. No more.
The IP address shows the cr4p originated in Chicago. The mail domain doesn't appear to exist.
I'm watching ........
Cheers,
Norm.
Why do they put lightning conductors on churches?
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts
It seems our Tony Harris is a persistent bugger. He's logged in again as a new user and spammed again. I've installed a plugin to ban his IPs, but given that his ISP is dealing out IP addresses in the range 196.0.0.0/8, that's a lot of banning. I've also contacted his ISP and politely requested that our Tony be delay with most appropriately. We shall see.
Why do they put lightning conductors on churches?
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts
Well, Toby signed up with two new users tonight, so I shot them both down before he had a chance to spam again. I've amended every existing user to be in a new group, writer, rather than user, plus, the user group can now only read the Wiki. Newly registered users are automatically added to the user group.
That should work, but it means that valid new users need to request an update if they want to contribute. Which is a bit harsh, but at the moment with old Toby, I'm between a rock and the other thing!
We'll see how this works.
Cheers,
Norm.
Why do they put lightning conductors on churches?
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts
After our good friend Toby Harris continued signing up with new usernames and different IP addresses, the IP Banner plugin needed someone (aka me!) to insert every IP address in the range a.b.c.1 through a.b.c.254 - and quite honestly, life's too short! I spent a couple of hours, late last night, reconfiguring everyone as a writer and making the default user group read only - so when he signs up again, he'll be read only.
I raised an issue yesterday with the author of the IP Banning plugin (who is also the author of the Wiki software) asking for ranges of IPs to be able to be specified. I installed the new version this morning and Toby's entire range of possible IP addresses has now been banned.
Maybe, just maybe, we've beaten the scum bag!
Cheers,
Norm.
Why do they put lightning conductors on churches?
Author of Arduino Software Internals
Author of Arduino Interrupts