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Title: Brand new bots (I assume) posting nonsensical garbage. Post by: Chris! on October 25, 2016, 04:10:36 PM I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP?
They always seem to list a event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one. http://i66.tinypic.com/nnn190.png Title: Re: Brand new bots (I assume) posting nonsensical garbage. Post by: achow101 on October 25, 2016, 04:31:57 PM I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP? We know. The nuking bot should be catching them, but there are a few issues with it. Those users are nuked on sight.They always seem to list a event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one. On a side note, the urls that they link to are somewhat interesting. They all link to legitimate institutions and I contacted them to let them know that they had some sort of compromise on their systems that was letting people host potentially malicious PDFs on their sites. The ones I contacted were the University of Colorado (!), some branch of the Australian Government(!), A non-profit group, a news website, and two companies. On the Aus. Gov't and the non-profit replied and they said that they have fixed the problem on their end to stop people from accessing those links so hopefully that will help. Title: Re: Brand new bots (I assume) posting nonsensical garbage. Post by: hilariousandco on October 25, 2016, 05:19:16 PM They do get ip banned as do all other bots but they obviously have access to a lot of connections. Just keep reporting them as annoying as it may be.
Title: Re: Brand new bots (I assume) posting nonsensical garbage. Post by: Chris! on October 25, 2016, 08:50:00 PM I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP? We know. The nuking bot should be catching them, but there are a few issues with it. Those users are nuked on sight.They always seem to list a event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one. On a side note, the urls that they link to are somewhat interesting. They all link to legitimate institutions and I contacted them to let them know that they had some sort of compromise on their systems that was letting people host potentially malicious PDFs on their sites. The ones I contacted were the University of Colorado (!), some branch of the Australian Government(!), A non-profit group, a news website, and two companies. On the Aus. Gov't and the non-profit replied and they said that they have fixed the problem on their end to stop people from accessing those links so hopefully that will help. I thought the links looked legitimate and that's why it was even more confusing!! I didn't see those exact ones but similar for sure. They do get ip banned as do all other bots but they obviously have access to a lot of connections. Just keep reporting them as annoying as it may be. Will do. At least they're easy to spot because the titles never make sense at all. |
