How Spammers are Using Your vBulletin Forum
Right before the 4th of July Holiday I was doing some regular maintenance on one of my forums and discover that spammers are finding a new little way of spamming your forums without even posting a post or sending private messages.
So what are they doing?
Well since the new vBulletin 3.7 came out with [...]
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The 40 Year Old College Student
That is right after being out of school since 1986, a little over 22 years ago, I have decided to go back to school and take some computer classes. I will be going for my AA in Computer Science. After the first year I will get a certificate for an Applications Developer.
I have always [...]
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A Quick Update
I just arrived back from week long vacation and have a pretty busy week ahead of me.
First-off I am attending the eComXpo online today and tomorrow. Should be interesting and seeing what the deal is. I signed up to attend last year, but was on vacation.
Then on Saturday it’s the second meeting of [...]
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Managing Online Forums: A Must Read!
If you have been following my blog you know that a couple of weeks ago Patrick O’Keefe contacted me via Twitter to see if I would be interested in reviewing his book; Managing Online Forums, I said of course without even hesitating. I used to listen to Patrick’s podcast that he used to do a [...]
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Is vBulletin 3.7 Recaptcha verification flawed?
After upgrading to vBulletin 3.7.1 almost within 15 minutes I had 3 new sign-ups, all from
.cn21.com names. So I could tell they were going to be spammers, so I banned them and their ip addresses.
I thought that would be the end of it. Well almost an 1 hour later I got 6 more sign-ups, [...]
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