hi everyone, well I bought my own server at yahoo smallbusiness, and it gave me the option to create an online phpbb forum, so I did. For an year or so, the forum worked great with lots of activity. But these last weeks I'm getting a huge amunt of spam messages... I tried blocking their IPs, changin the forum setting so only I can authorize new members, making the forum only avialable for registred users, etc... But even if I block so they can't write any messages, they still create their accounts and I have to erase everything manually... pain in the @ss, time-consuming really!!! I was also thinking if there's any other forum server other than phpbb?? Dunno, maybe I can swap my sql database with myAdmin or something?? I don't know, whatever works, but please tell me.. Is there any way I can have a clean forum without having to erase 10 to 20 porn spammers every day?? Please help, I'm getting frustrated but don't want to close it all, I have 40 good, active members
2007-04-28 05:36:28 · 3 answers · asked by BTII 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You might need to upgrade phpBB, or get the host to do it. Try searching for some spam management phpBB modules. Try to find out how unauthorised users are gaining access to the boards - it's usually an exploit of some kind.
2007-04-28 05:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really wish I had an answer for you. This age of progress has us backing so far up the calendar should be going in reverse.
2007-05-06 05:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Nachtraven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Address your problems to Yahoo.
2007-05-05 01:11:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jan C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋