More spam-bots
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:07 pm
There has been some excessive spamming in #unfiction and various other channels related to Unfiction (mostly the ones listed in the topic at #unfiction).
The bots spam a URL to a certain website, which has already been entered into the list of forbidden words, but they just go around that by using spaces or other ways to modify the url.
After #unfiction was set to +M (which we really rather wouldn't as it isn't very friendly), they started spamming via /msg to different people in the channel.
Quite a few of them have at least been banned from the main channel, but this doesn't stop the PMs and spamming in various other channels.
Hostnames we found they were on, among others:
- bu.edu
- bostream.se
- mu.edu
- serverkompetenz.net
- kallisti.de
- cambrium.nl
This seems very random, they are probably using some method to spoof/switch these hosts. There were over 70 kicks today aloneĀ :-\
I hope there's something that can be done about this, because it's becoming increasingly annoying![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
(logs available, if they are needed)
The bots spam a URL to a certain website, which has already been entered into the list of forbidden words, but they just go around that by using spaces or other ways to modify the url.
After #unfiction was set to +M (which we really rather wouldn't as it isn't very friendly), they started spamming via /msg to different people in the channel.
Quite a few of them have at least been banned from the main channel, but this doesn't stop the PMs and spamming in various other channels.
Hostnames we found they were on, among others:
- bu.edu
- bostream.se
- mu.edu
- serverkompetenz.net
- kallisti.de
- cambrium.nl
This seems very random, they are probably using some method to spoof/switch these hosts. There were over 70 kicks today aloneĀ :-\
I hope there's something that can be done about this, because it's becoming increasingly annoying
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
(logs available, if they are needed)