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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:41 pm

This list is for the known SOCK PUPPETS names - all those spurious and advertising accounts. To report those who make them, the "weavers" , go to the NAME LIST - SOCK MASTERS thread in this area.

To keep it short and neat - one line only, such as the ID line from the profile, e.g.

Viewing profile :: Äèçåëü ãåíåðàòîð

Also try to remember to kill your sig lines. If more pop up, use the "Edit" button to add on to the ones you just posted. Happy Hunting!

by **spectabillis** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:39 pm

Thanks again for everything Sue: just a quick update to the spamming problem - spanky is currently looking to corner a phpbb resource to install two mods.

by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:07 pm

One for you, Spec...

>>SMOOCH<<

And one for Spanky!

>>SMOOCH<<

Wish I could do more... but you know that already!

bb

by **spectabillis** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:17 pm

Thanks, I know, but it depends on getting the committment of the right resource and with all the shit flinging around, animosity, and people wanting to shout above the rest in saying what to do - people are not exactly stepping foreward to volunteer.

Cant say I blame them much.

by **Kinetic IV** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:33 am

So when was our admin going to apply the patches? When is register_globals going to be disabled? Why are guest accounts trying to post messages? Why can't we turn off the use of html in posts to get around the problems? What is the excuse this week?

I guess it's going to take the board being brought to it's knees before anyone acts. And with the exponential growth of the script kiddies exploiting this board's holes it shouldn't be much longer. And I'm glad I'm not footing the bill for the eplaya's ever increasing bandwidth consumption as a result of the exploits.

by **emily sparkle** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:04 am

blueniteowl wrote:Now, these accounts have actually made posts. But there is no actual content within the posts.

ah yeah... tricky little posts too... the smilies are linked to their commercial site. it's amazing to see how important outbound links are to these spammers.

thanks. keep 'em coming.

by **Kinetic IV** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:58 pm

So where are those patches that was promised?
I know, you speak up and people say you're whining but damn, this keeps going and going. Hop on here at 1 am and you'll see 20 guests exploiting the flaws for all it's worth. New accounts get created right and left....

On second thought forget I said anything...it won't do any good, nobody cares anyway.

by **emily sparkle** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:12 pm

i just deactivated 204-synaix as an experiment. let's see what happens.

by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:28 pm

NO!! REALLY???

You rock!!! Croitzin the fingees...

And... uum...

<<<((({{{emily}}})))>>>

bb

by **Kinetic IV** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:37 pm

Oh my God! She didn't? SHE DID!!!!

Oh man, have I been waiting for this!! Emily...you made my day!!!!

The shot across the bow just got fired!! This is great news!!!!

by **spanky** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:50 pm

OK, FINALLY!

I got the necessary mods installed to do the mass maintenance on this. Conferring w/Emily now.

Sorry for taking so long on this.

~Spanky

by **spectabillis** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:23 pm

awsome!

thanks.

by **emily sparkle** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:19 pm

yes, yes chipping away... so far the user database is down by 5,000 names or so!

between spanky and i we've deleted users with zero posts that have
- email addresses with .ru
- *sex* in their emails
- a last visited date of 12/31/1969 that had a joined date of prior to 08/2005.

by **emily sparkle** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:47 am

AntiM wrote:Occupation: pantyhose sex

where do i apply for this job???

by **AntiM** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:19 am

It isn't half as fun as it sounds ...

by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:46 pm

emily sparkle wrote:
AntiM wrote:Occupation: pantyhose sex

where do i apply for this job???

Sounds kinda uncomfortable.

I see the natives are getting creative. Anyone know under what name the current sock master building this stuff is hidden? Be nice to catch them...

OK - Try this - go to Memberlist (Waaayyy up on top)- sort by "joined Date" descending. Note most of the socks are now from "NY", tho there are still some pseudo-cyrillic posters there, too (one I think may be a sockmaster). Anyone with account delete capacity want to start tackling this mess?

bb

by **emily sparkle** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:40 pm

yes, getting the multi-delete tool was a good first step, but we knew it wasn't going to solve the problem. we also sent the visual-verify mods to spanky and hopefully he'll get those installed sometime soon though. at least i can mass delete them every couple of days now though. thanks for the hard work you guys!

by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:49 am

hOme loans! pffffffffffffft!

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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:21 am

I'm not sayng he is, but his website link is to a search engine about buying cars... kind of strange... A little suspect.

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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:39 am

Posting commerce et al... (like you wouldn't think so)...

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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:02 am

Wasn't one of the common sockmasters famous for this BS line in the intrests section? What crapola...

*************

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by **Chai Guy** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:00 pm

How about adding graphical-text to the registration form so that spam bots can't register in the first place?

by **Chai Guy** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:22 pm

by **emily sparkle** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:37 pm

yes, the visual verify solutions have been suggested. not sure where they are on spanky's priority list.

by **Chai Guy** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:16 pm

not sure where they are on spanky's priority list.

Any chance we could get a copy of that list? I'm just curious to see where the spam bot problem ranks. I'm guessing somwhere below "clean out the rain gutters" and somewhere above "reorganize underwear drawer".

by **Kinetic IV** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:07 pm

Hmmm...so is he a sock, a bot, or both? If we have to put up with the scum until Emily or Spanky come in we might as well figure out what we're putting up with.

by **emily sparkle** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:13 pm

Chai Guy wrote:
not sure where they are on spanky's priority list.

Any chance we could get a copy of that list? I'm just curious to see where the spam bot problem ranks. I'm guessing somwhere below "clean out the rain gutters" and somewhere above "reorganize underwear drawer".

i hear ya.

by **blueniteowl** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:32 am

leh

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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:09 am

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by **Bay Bridge Sue** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:52 pm

Oldie song (you know the tune):

Sock baby sock baby give it a rest we dont wanna buy your stupid garbage...

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