Guestbook Spam

[hospital]

Hi all

I am using Advanced Guestbook 2.3.3 on my site and it is being spammed with links to dubious content. I have put "html" and "www" and a few other terms in the censor list hoping it would prevent the links from displaying and whoever was posting them would give up, but they conti=inue to post links.

Is there any other way of stopping this? These posts are all coming from diffferent IP addresses.

TIA

Tom

[hospital]

For anyone experiencing the same problems as myself with their advanced guestbook being spammed here is a link to a modification to defeat bots from spamming it. It adds a human verification question to the addentry page.

http://www.carbonize.co.uk/Board/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=9abfff978558eb7b05d8d968a355459b

I have just implemented it so I'm not sure how successful it will be.

Tom

[dzo88]

I am experiencing the same problem with bots infiltrating my discussion board.
I tried CAPTCHA, but I am using Frontpage 2003 and you have to turn off extentions for it to work. Your link is broken or has exspired. Do you or anyone have a workable solution for a neophyte website developer like myself?

[Twiztedrods]

I had the same problem with my guest book and finally just deleted it. Let us know how the mod works. As for spam on a phpbb message board the best solution I found was to activate members through the admin panel. I normally get 100 spammers for every 1 legitamet (sp) new member. Alot of the spammers you get are not bots but actuall people that is why they can get past captcha. Most of the spammers I get are from foreign countries normally Africa. I now have a very long list of banned ip addresses.