PSA, warning on these crazy threads!

[Chris]

If memory serves, you're behind Cloudflare, yes? Go and ban all .ru .cn .ua etc. Yea, it won't necessarily stop spoofing, but it will help. Things like this come in "storms" as they're called. I was getting all kinds of bullshit on my web form, when I blocked .ru - it came to a screeching halt immediately. Another one to block is amazonaws - there's all kinds of bullshit bots being run from there. It took me a bit to figure out how to turn that crap off (via Cloudflare), but I got it done a couple of weeks ago (the .ru etc block has been in place for about 3 years now). I was getting HAMMERED by amazonaws bots!

Yes, this forum is behind Cloudflare and I have banned all those that you mentioned. Doesn't seem to stop. Some of these bots are pretty sophisticated it would seem. I'm going to check on the XenForo forum and see what others are doing. My guess is someone has a add-on for this.

I think the bots can actually pass many CAPTCHA tests nowadays, the pricks writing the things are pretty clever, albeit colossal assholes for doing it in the first place.

You might want to check out the support forums for Xenforo, there might be some help there or some plugin for the site that you could install to keep them out.

In the interim, you could take the drastic measure of closing new registrations....not the best solution but it might help until you find a more permanent one.

You're right, CAPTCHA is largely ineffective these days.

I'm going to ask around the XenForo forum and see what others suggest.

What gets me is the crap these bots post. Witchcraft spells and abortion pills? Who the hell is going to click on any of this crap? At least try and make your spam look legit...sheesh.

 

[AndyG]

Yea but Andy is so entertaining so we'll keep him around !

Guys all he is trying to tell you is he called a 1-900 number and got a girl that stuttered. Again.

 

[chili_pepper]

What gets me is the crap these bots post. Witchcraft spells and abortion pills? Who the hell is going to click on any of this crap? At least try and make your spam look legit...sheesh.

Some of the tools used for these types of attacks can be downloaded by anyone, including your neighbor's asshole teenage son and his slacker friends. Often times they know barely enough to use the stuff and are just getting off on potentially jacking up someone's website and ruining someone's day.

I created and managed a forum for a car club about 15 years ago, and within hours of the inaugural site going live, we got attacked. I actually discovered it while the attack was in progress. They were using scripts to inject malicious code into all the site's pages, which would have resulted in a virus or malware installation for anyone who accessed the affected pages. Fortunately for myself and the club, whoever was using the tools screwed up the code syntax for the injection to where it just broke the site's pages and they wouldn't load properly. Bit of a mess to clean up but it could have been much worse.

 

[Chris]

Some of the tools used for these types of attacks can be downloaded by anyone, including your neighbor's asshole teenage son and his slacker friends. Often times they know barely enough to use the stuff and are just getting off on potentially jacking up someone's website and ruining someone's day.

I created and managed a forum for a car club about 15 years ago, and within hours of the inaugural site going live, we got attacked. I actually discovered it while the attack was in progress. They were using scripts to inject malicious code into all the site's pages, which would have resulted in a virus or malware installation for anyone who accessed the affected pages. Fortunately for myself and the club, whoever was using the tools screwed up the code syntax for the injection to where it just broke the site's pages and they wouldn't load properly. Bit of a mess to clean up but it could have been much worse.

Sometimes the forum software does a good job of intercepting them. For instance, just now I got a few more spammers trying to register and the forum flagged the accounts for approval. So every so often it does it's job, but clearly there's been a lot of them getting through.

It's amazing to me how much money there is in the spam industry and how much money and time is spent on combatting it. Like I said, if you wanted to spam, you'd think you'd at least make yourself appear to be authentic so that you might boost your CTR for links. Of course it sounds like some of these idiots are just doing it to be malicious little punks.

Glad you were able to catch that crap on your forum. Most of what happened on this forum happened while I was asleep so I woke up to all of it. Now that I'm awake and active I'm working on stopping them in their tracks.

 

[bbaldwin237]

I think the bots can actually pass many CAPTCHA tests nowadays, the pricks writing the things are pretty clever, albeit colossal assholes for doing it in the first place.

You might want to check out the support forums for Xenforo, there might be some help there or some plugin for the site that you could install to keep them out.

In the interim, you could take the drastic measure of closing new registrations....not the best solution but it might help until you find a more permanent one.

Ever read this article about AI hiring a human to solve the CAPTCHA for it! Wild!

https://www.pcmag.com/news/gpt-4-wa...The result led GPT-4,to solve a visual puzzle.

 

[chili_pepper]

It's amazing to me how much money there is in the spam industry and how much money and time is spent on combatting it.

When the issue of computer viruses and virus preventative software was in its infancy, there were some who suggested the very industry attempting to solve the problem was also perpetuating it by covertly hiring entities to write them...with the ultimate goal of guaranteeing future job security, so to speak. Certainly not out of the realm of possibility or plausibility. Like you said, lots of money in it.

Glad you were able to catch that crap on your forum. Most of what happened on this forum happened while I was asleep so I woke up to all of it. Now that I'm awake and active I'm working on stopping them in their tracks.

Fortunately for me, the club is now defunct and I no longer play in that pool. That said, the incident was an eye-opening experience and one I had not anticipated.

 

[Zorba]

Witchcraft spells and abortion pills? Who the hell is going to click on any of this crap? At least try and make your spam look legit...sheesh.

Well, I *am* looking for a good toad transformation spell...

 

[Chris]

Well, I *am* looking for a good toad transformation spell...

I mean in all honesty, who isn't?

When the issue of computer viruses and virus preventative software was in its infancy, there were some who suggested the very industry attempting to solve the problem was also perpetuating it by covertly hiring entities to write them...with the ultimate goal of guaranteeing future job security, so to speak. Certainly not out of the realm of possibility or plausibility. Like you said, lots of money in it.



Fortunately for me, the club is now defunct and I no longer play in that pool. That said, the incident was an eye-opening experience and one I had not anticipated.

To be honest, with the way things are these days, I'm willing to entertain almost anything as a possible conspiracy. Maybe that's the wrong word, but I believe that things like this do happen more often than we know. Money is most certainly the answer to 99 out of 100 questions.

 

[chili_pepper]

To be honest, with the way things are these days, I'm willing to entertain almost anything as a possible conspiracy. Maybe that's the wrong word, but I believe that things like this do happen more often than we know. Money is most certainly the answer to 99 out of 100 questions.

You'll get no argument or challenge from me on that....I know exactly what you mean...

 

[chili_pepper]

Well, I *am* looking for a good toad transformation spell...

Would this be to a toad, from a toad or both?

 

[tr21triton]

Truest words spoken today..how anyone likes that dry shitty meat is beyond me.

if it's dry you ain't cooking it right ! inject it with creole butter, and rub it down with vegetable oil and coat it with tony chacheres seasoning the night before and fry that bird ! it wont be dry. 3 1/2 - 4 minutes a lb in peanut oil or 11 minutes a lb in a oil less fryer ! It wont be dry.......

 

[Zorba]

Would this be to a toad, from a toad or both?

Definitely "to". "From" would be bad either, just to keep my options open.

 

[Apparition]

if it's dry you ain't cooking it right ! inject it with creole butter, and rub it down with vegetable oil and coat it with tony chacheres seasoning the night before and fry that bird ! it wont be dry. 3 1/2 - 4 minutes a lb in peanut oil or 11 minutes a lb in a oil less fryer ! It wont be dry.......

Yep, take a $20 bird. Inject $3 of butter, fry it in $40 peanut oil heated with $10 of propane to make it almost as good as $20 of pretty much any other meat.

 

[tr21triton]

the $40 worth of oil is why I went to a Charbroil big easy oil less fryer a few years ago ! but either way is good !

 

[Apparition]

the $40 worth of oil is why I went to a Charbroil big easy oil less fryer a few years ago ! but either way is good !

I have one of those. Good and crispy but not the same. Use it for a pineapple instead.

 

[tr21triton]

Use it for a pineapple instead.

Tell me more

 

[Apparition]

Tell me more

I can't find the recipe for how I did it. It's been 10 years or so ago. Pretty sure I just stuck a pineapple in it and cooked it until all the sugars were warmed up and ready to eat. I thought the one I did was right out of the manual or recipe booklet for the fryer.

Here's the only recipe I can locate.

https://www.lifesatomato.com/2019/06/12/brazilian-pineapple-on-the-char-broil-big-easy/

 

[Rickyd]

I couldn't hang up the phone and delete that picture fast enough !!!!!!!

Bullshit,we know you've been looking at those pics all day

 

[MikekiM]

...They were using scripts to inject malicious code into all the site's pages, which would have resulted in a virus or malware installation for anyone who accessed the affected pages. Fortunately for myself and the club, whoever was using the tools screwed up the code syntax for the injection to where it just broke the site's pages and they wouldn't load properly. Bit of a mess to clean up but it could have been much worse.

It's a foreign language right? I recognize the punctuation and that's where it stops.