Spam

I'm 26, am I old enough? :D

Too old and too slow!

You know what I mean spammers!!!!!! xD

m3tal u bought warm smd led for car in DX? If yes ty for the photos xD

today I ate maccheroni and salsiccia I'm going to buy a pizza cya

lovely spam xD

Yes, I know :bigsmile:

Yes, I did, you're welcome.

Another spambot/spammer is attacking BLF. They can be pretty annoying. So that people later will know what I am talking about, this post is all over our forum at the time of this writing:

EDIT: I just broke all of the links. Every part in bold was a link to their website.

Looks more like a manual cut'n'paste attack to me? I could write a better spambot than THAT.

I think you're right. And now it looks like they quit. They spammed 18 threads with a total of 23 posts over a 14 minute period.

I don't know how to distinguish the spam? anybody can tell me.

Check out this thread to learn more about SPAM:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/3588

How about banning chenee ?

Cheneeee joined yesterday and had 57 posts already. He's trying to sell Coach bags in a budget flashlight forum. What is he thinking?

i guess he`s thinking he can sell us some of his coach bags... ;)

wiseguy lol!

Is this how CPF began the journey to the darkside? Idiots spamming and CPF trying to come up with ways to stop it. I hope we are able to kill the spam without losing the community feeling we have here.

Hmm. Next step would be to create a technical solution to prevent spam from being accepted.

For instance, generate a hash of each message over some minimum length (so :P messages don't trigger). Then just keep these hash signatures in memory for a few hours (to keep the collision checking quick) and dump any new messages that collide.

You could defeat this by changing a single letter of the comment, yes, but it would defeat pure cut/paste attacks.

Ughhhh, Cheneee is gone now with all of his bags. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I'm glad you finally "bagged" him lol

What is a coach bag anyway?

Good idea! There are implementations of algorithms that are designed to find near-matches (such as simhash and probably lots more, considering that there's a lot of interest in academia). Simhash, in particular, is actually pretty fast, relatively speaking of course.

Also, while we're talking site issues, I thought I'd bring up this thread. NeoGeo discovered that a blf.cc.cz link in an old post of mine now points to a domain squatter site. NoScript and a custom filter list actually blocked the redirection attempt in FF but when I opened the site in IE (in a separate sandbox), it redirected to a spam site. I suspect this affects all old links that point to blf.cc.cz (ie. the old site). Is there any way to re-write old links in the database so that they point to the new site? Getting the old subdomain back would obviously be easier, but I suspect the spammers won't be too happy to give it up and cc.cz is notorious for ignoring abuse cases.

It's a device that guarantees sex for a husband.