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A full IP ban is now in place against the spammers that have been hitting this forum. They may switch IP's or something like that, but this should slow them down at least.

Edited, Aug 19th 2006 at 9:43pm EDT by Kaolian

Go go DLKLH!

58.33.235.183 was the latest one. THey appear to be on a non static IP address in the 58.33 range. It's a DSL modem IP out of shanghai china, and none of them appear to speak english at the number they provide.

inetnum: 58.33.232.0 - 58.33.235.255
netname: CHINANET-SH-BBAD-216
descr: Chinanet shanghai boardband adsl 216
country: CN
admin-c: WWQ4-AP
tech-c: WWQ4-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-SH
changed: ip-admin@mail.online.sh.cn 20050805
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
source: APNIC

person: Weng Wen Qian
address: Room 2405,357 Songlin Road,Shanghai 200122
country: CN
phone: +86-21-68405784
fax-no: +86-21-50623458
e-mail: wengwq@online.sh.cn
nic-hdl: WWQ4-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-SH
changed: ip-admin@mail.online.sh.cn 20050403
source: APNIC

God damn it, they tried again! this is really pissing me off now. Make your time ************* 'cause someone set you up teh bomb!

God damn it, they tried again! this is really pissing me off now. Make your time mother@#%^ers 'cause someone set you up teh bomb!

Translates roughly to:

上帝该æ», 他们再尝试了! 这真æ£åœ°çƒ¦æ»æˆ‘现在。做您的某人设置您teh 炸弹的时间mother@#%^ers ' èµ·å› !

And again.

Seems less like marketing and more like revenge of some sort. This specific board is being targeted while the WoW general forum seems unaffected.



Edited, Aug 20th 2006 at 6:03am EDT by Trappin

With the rate they are doing this, it doesnt seem they are trying to sell their links. It looks to me that they are just trying to spam the forum with what ever garbage they can find, and are just using those type of sites as cover.

I am not saying for sure it is not a selling site, but they are running off more people then they can possibly gain from this fiasco.

I like the idea of new accounts having a limit to posts-per-day, something like 5. That seems like it would slow the spam down to a trickle, and be easy to catch.

But then the spammer would just make a repetative cycle of: make new acount > post max allowed > make new account > post max allowed.

But at least it would be some additional defense in place, since the spammers are still finding a way in.

Something has to happen, this guy is ruining the boards. The post cap would help, but hurts new posters. As would blocking linking sites for x amount of time. Possibly blocking password confirmation emails to certain sites such as Yahoo or whomever they have.

Maybe not a limit on number of posts but a timer on how often a new poster can post - like less than 100 posts = 1 post every 15 minutes

And yes, it does look more like revenge than commerce. Also looks a lot like "14 year old geek revenge"!

Ban China!!!!

China 1047

USA 0

That would kill any new threads by new posters also though, so that would be a very rough fix if any.

I still like the idea of the new posters getting a cap on posts, though that alone isn't a good fix for the spammers because they can just make a new account once the limit is reached. Maybe an auto-ban code for spamming inside of a limit? Post more then say 10 threads in the first 20 minutes of an acocunt or something and it auto-bans?