Question for VBulletin Users: Are you seeing strange posts? - GoFuckYourself.com

2MuchMark · 11-10-2009, 12:22 AM

I am seeing the strangest things lately.

We run a couple of forums using VBulletin, and are using Captcha to keep out the spammers.

Every once in a while though, new accounts get through and post very strange messages which seems to contain valid text but is in fact completely irrelevant to the topic of the thread. I can't put my finger on it but it "feels" like a generated post. Sometimes their sigs have links to pill sites or some other such thing, and sometimes not. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing or am I just going crazy?

d-null · 11-10-2009, 12:39 AM

I get that too, and I'm thinking that what you are seeing is a result of xrumer

bastards should:

d-null · 11-10-2009, 12:41 AM

it is not only vbulletin forums either

I hate the spamming fuckers

CPimp · 11-10-2009, 12:42 AM

I'm thinking xrumer as well... I have a mainstream forum that has a couple of these posts but its phpbb... Only thing I can think of is that it's manually done... reason being xrumer cant get past the setup I have to block spam.

LoveSandra · 11-10-2009, 02:04 AM

fucking xrumer

rowan · 11-10-2009, 03:50 AM

Have you plugged a sentence or two into Google? It's probably content scraped from elsewhere...

Or if it's not, you can at least see if it's being spammed out to multiple boards.

'mo · 11-10-2009, 03:53 AM

Your clue probably lies in their sig. 2c

JamesK · 11-10-2009, 03:59 AM

Have you tried ReCaptcha? I used that multiple times and it always stopped 100% of the auto generated / outsourced spam.

I've seen those irrelevant posts too by the way, not sure what's up with that.

A.J. Angel · 11-10-2009, 06:35 AM

I would suggest you to do a search on either the name or the e-mail address of the account posting irrelevant posts. Usually, you'll be come up with loads of other message boards and one or two spam report sites reporting that account or e-mail address or anything similar.

11-10-2009, 12:22 AM	#1
2MuchMark Videochat Solutions Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 49,038	Question for VBulletin Users: Are you seeing strange posts? I am seeing the strangest things lately. We run a couple of forums using VBulletin, and are using Captcha to keep out the spammers. Every once in a while though, new accounts get through and post very strange messages which seems to contain valid text but is in fact completely irrelevant to the topic of the thread. I can't put my finger on it but it "feels" like a generated post. Sometimes their sigs have links to pill sites or some other such thing, and sometimes not. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing or am I just going crazy? __________________ Custom Coding \| Videochat Solutions \| Age Verification \| IT Help & Support www.2Much.net

11-10-2009, 12:42 AM	#4
CPimp Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 2,346	I'm thinking xrumer as well... I have a mainstream forum that has a couple of these posts but its phpbb... Only thing I can think of is that it's manually done... reason being xrumer cant get past the setup I have to block spam. __________________ three 997 three 55 three 1 ← That's my ICQ. Contact me there. Thanks.

11-10-2009, 03:59 AM	#8
JamesK hi Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 16,731	Have you tried ReCaptcha? I used that multiple times and it always stopped 100% of the auto generated / outsourced spam. I've seen those irrelevant posts too by the way, not sure what's up with that. __________________ M3Server - NATS Hosting

11-10-2009, 12:39 AM	#2
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	I get that too, and I'm thinking that what you are seeing is a result of xrumer bastards should:

11-10-2009, 12:41 AM	#3
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	it is not only vbulletin forums either I hate the spamming fuckers

11-10-2009, 02:04 AM	#5
LoveSandra So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Just Blow Me Posts: 10,551	fucking xrumer

11-10-2009, 03:50 AM	#6
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Have you plugged a sentence or two into Google? It's probably content scraped from elsewhere... Or if it's not, you can at least see if it's being spammed out to multiple boards.

11-10-2009, 03:53 AM	#7
'mo Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 356	Your clue probably lies in their sig. 2c

11-10-2009, 06:35 AM	#9
A.J. Angel Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 859	I would suggest you to do a search on either the name or the e-mail address of the account posting irrelevant posts. Usually, you'll be come up with loads of other message boards and one or two spam report sites reporting that account or e-mail address or anything similar.