NYCPHP Meetup

[Rolan Yang]

mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:
> Update: I just discovered that the "robot" that is accessing and
> spamming my sites it XRumer. It hacks into gmail, gets a valid gmail
> account then it registers and spams as many Forum sites as it can find
> to "plant" illicit links so it can exploit google's PR system.
>
> Anyone know of an anti-XRumer script or detector?
>
>   
Forum spamming is a typical problem. To stop that, you need to burden 
your users with a captcha upon registration, or if you don't require 
users to register, then burden them with a captcha upon each posting. I 
suppose if you code up your own exotic form submit scheme (maybe through 
javascript/ajax?) the bots may skip scanning your forms and move onto 
lower hanging fruit.

~Rolan