What is FuntKlakow?

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  • zuriatman
    Moderator

    • Sep 2006
    • 3025

    What is FuntKlakow?

    Hi All at VodaTalk,

    Just as I was going to install a forum on my own website, I found this news
    as I was researching PhpBB. Are the Bots getting smarter, smart enough to
    pass a "Captcha" barrier and register itself?

    Mass hacking of phpBB forums by FuntKlakow bot.

    If you are running a forum using the phpBB software you might want to check if a user named FuntKlakow has registered as a member. During the last few days a bot using that name has been registering itself to tens, possible hundreds, of thousands of phpBB forums.

    I found out this bot has also registered itself with two of my forums. A suggestion on how to defense against these kind of bots can be find here but I don’t see any quick solution using that method.

    What I did was banned FuntKlakow and enable visual conformation. If a vanilla visual confirmation doesn’t keep off all the spambots, someone from phpBB Community forum suggested combining it with other tricks or change your captcha

    Gaman.
    www.siapamoyanganda.com/
    Malaysian Family Tree Website From the
    State of Johor.

    HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO DREAM DREAMS AND ARE READY TO PAY THE PRICE TO MAKE THEM COME TRUE.
  • nzbr
    Lieutenant Colonel

    • Dec 2006
    • 546

    #2
    re: What is FuntKlakow?

    Maybe you should install something like a question:
    1+1= ? or are you human?
    Then set up the registration to be completed only when you authorize it.
    'Admin' has to check each registred user and authorize it.

    All the problems I had in my forum are gone after have done that!

    Cheers,
    N Z B R
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    Excursiones en Nueva Zelanda
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    • zuriatman
      Moderator

      • Sep 2006
      • 3025

      #3
      re: What is FuntKlakow?

      That is a good suggestion NZBR,

      In fact I just saw one the other day "6+6-6="
      Will try the same thing in my new forum.

      Thanks.
      www.siapamoyanganda.com/
      Malaysian Family Tree Website From the
      State of Johor.

      HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO DREAM DREAMS AND ARE READY TO PAY THE PRICE TO MAKE THEM COME TRUE.

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