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Norroen Dyrd · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2010 8:01 am

videogmer314 wrote:

oblivion4life wrote:

so what exactly IS a spambot?

A user that's controlled by a computer program and just posts ads of random stuff, from pirated games to "free" drugs.

This sure did straighten things out. Now I know whom to hunt *Equips a bow, drinks a Nighteye Potion and disappears in the wilderness*

Shadow · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:18 am

I believe the user "magadelene" and his topic "unlock" in the tech desk is spam.

Veck · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:22 am

ShadowWarrior wrote:

I believe the user "magadelene" and his topic "unlock" in the tech desk is spam.

Looks like it.

Caz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:43 am

Taken care of

Thanks

Venger · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:24 pm

Generalno1 wrote:

cardbird wrote:

wats a spambot ?

Losers who think posting gibberish on forums and making people post in their threads makes them "cool"
the last "invasion" happened quite a while ago.

I still don't understand. Can you explain further?

nyk45 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:44 pm

Wikipedia wrote:

Forum spambots surf the web, looking for guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to submit spam links to the web forms it finds. These spambots often use OCR technology to bypass CAPTCHAs present. Some spam messages are targeted towards readers and can involve techniques of target marketing or even phishing, making it hard to tell real posts from the bot generated ones. Not all of the spam posts are meant for the readers; some spam messages are simply hyperlinks intended to boost search engine ranking.

This category of spambots has gained considerable notoriety since November 2006, with the introduction of XRumer, a forum and wiki spambot which can often bypass many of the safeguards administrators use to reduce the amount of spam posted.

One way to prevent spambots from posting on forums, wiki, guestbook, etc. is to enable e-mail activation by installing a mail server on the host (eg: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim.), since most spambot scripts use fake or randomly generated names on real e-mail providers, the e-mails will mostly never be successfully routed to them, although this has eventually been circumvented, since it is of trivial matter for spammers to automatically register an email address and use it for validation, mostly via webmail services. Using methods such as security questions are also proven to be effective in curbing posts generated by spambots, as they are usually unable to answer it upon registering.

Venger · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:47 pm

How is it then you tell a spambot from some common schmoe if he posts no spamming links?

Generalno1 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:08 pm

If a spam bottish person doesn't post any links then he's just a moron who's doing it for kicks

Dark Spark · **Posted:** Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:28 pm

Venger the Templar wrote:

How is it then you tell a spambot from some common schmoe if he posts no spamming links?

If their first post happens to be in the Oblivion forum (one of the most active forums here), yet has absolutely nothing to do with Oblivion, chances are good that it's a spambot.

Venger · **Posted:** Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:09 pm

I think I got it. Thanks guys.

Dean · **Posted:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:50 pm

There was some new member 'nannycams1' or something like that who joined this morning so im guessing that is a sambot seeming theres a link on the profile to spycams and the such. Oh and maybe the name was a giveaway to

Codex · **Posted:** Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:54 pm

This thread is not for joking around. Some posts have been deleted.

Veck · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:57 am

The Oblivion Question thread in the Oblivion forum looks like the work of a spambot.

Edit: There is also a troll thread about to kick off about mods being pointless.

Caz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:33 pm

Cheers

Sonixboom · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:38 am

I think magickaman1 is a spambot... if hes not then hes just a troll

i say burn him at the stake

-Sonix

Caz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:05 am

A troll, and he's already been taken care of

Sonixboom · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:40 pm

Caz wrote:

A troll, and he's already been taken care of

did you burn him at the stake... please tell me you burned him at the stake???

-Sonix

Veck · **Posted:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:14 pm

Sonix, did you even read Codex's post? This thread isn't for joking around.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony of posting here and I'm sorry.

Spiney · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:40 am

I think we got a spambot.

Leilah · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:44 am

Got him

Spiney · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:48 am

YAY, Leilahs first spambot.

Vivec's Tears · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:16 pm

How does your first taste of blood feel, Leilah? :Twisted Evil:

Sonixboom · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:28 pm

Vivec's Tears wrote:

How does your first taste of blood feel, Leilah? :Twisted Evil:

dont ask her that, she may come for you next

-Sonix

Caz · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:19 pm

Ok, congrats to Leilah but still: no spamming up this thread

Norroen Dyrd · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:18 am

Could that be a spambot? viewtopic.php?f=25&t=17947
EDIT: oh, Leilah took care of it anyway

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