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Hitterman · 8 Nov 2008, 20:17

Last time when i saw some popular Spam bots online like "usagirl”, "weiwei", I reported to you. There are 4-5 more in the member list. Anyway, it’s not important.

**Kshitiz** · 8 Nov 2008, 21:53

Indeed, these bots nowadays are not totally bots. As I was told by AB, these spambots are actually humans who first register and then the bot takes control.

Hitterman · 8 Nov 2008, 22:24

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Indeed, these bots nowadays are not totally bots. As I was told by AB, these spambots are actually humans who first register and then the bot takes control.

Humans only feed data in softwares like XRumer. Rest is done by the application. It defeat the Captcha and image verifications and email confirmations. However there many many hacks at vB.org which can defeat these bots too.

AB · 9 Nov 2008, 15:14

Humans are just used to fill the CAPTCHA, everything else is automated. However, I believe XRumer uses an automated method to crack CAPTCHA.

Spam or no spam I don't agree with new users having to be approved. We can easily implement something to prevent spam without causing inconvienience to genuine users.

schwab2clarkson · 9 Nov 2008, 17:26

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Originally Posted by AB

Humans are just used to fill the CAPTCHA, everything else is automated. However, I believe XRumer uses an automated method to crack CAPTCHA.

Spam or no spam I don't agree with new users having to be approved. We can easily implement something to prevent spam without causing inconvienience to genuine users.

Ok sounds fair to me.

However, I wouldn't mind keeping tabs on who the spammers are.

with my forum, I approve all new accounts because you would be surprised how many people do register only to spam. They usually have fake accounts and fake emails. They are easy to recognise as well.