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Thu, 03 July 2014 03:15

Alex.H

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Registered: July 2014
Location: Germany, Kiel

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Hi,

I'am fairly new to fudforum. I installed it some days ago and found after some days lots of random generated users registering. All with location, occupation and some other data.

When the number of users hit 180 I took the time to enable the three plugins to battle spam:

BotScout
Stop Forum Spam
Recaptcha

Then I banned all suspicious users.

It slowed the process, but did not stop it.

Then I got a message from my hoster, my forum is generating lots of email traffic. Lots more then it should generate.

So I did this:

enabled the aproval by admin option
deleted all banned accounts and some more, which registered since my massban action
disabled the option, user can sent email to other users

I suspect that last option kind of unsecure. Apparently those spammer used my forum to send emails even to addresses not used by my forum members.

Is this a known problem? Is there some kind of fix?

Where could I find the logs, to find out, what is really going on?

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		there seems to be a way in 3.0.5 for spammers to mail By: Alex.H on Thu, 03 July 2014 03:15
		Re: there seems to be a way in 3.0.5 for spammers to mail By: Alex.H on Sun, 06 July 2014 11:20
		Re: there seems to be a way in 3.0.5 for spammers to mail By: cpreston on Thu, 02 October 2014 18:30
		Re: there seems to be a way in 3.0.5 for spammers to mail By: Alex.H on Thu, 06 November 2014 22:21

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