login script or human ?

chicago · New Member Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 6

We are getting a lot of spam in our forums.

I traced a post back to the httpd access_logs

from the logs does it look like a script or a human ?

here is a access_log from my webserver.

Code:

72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:40 -0500] "GET /?gfx=gfx&random_num=763691 HTTP/1.0" 200 1501
72.232..x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:42 -0500] "GET /modules.php?name=Forums&file=posting&mode=newtopic&f=1 HTTP/1.0" 302 18060
72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:48 -0500] "GET /modules.php?name=Your_Account&redirect=posting&mode=newtopic&f=1 HTTP/1.0" 200 23143
72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:54 -0500] "GET /?gfx=gfx&random_num=427082 HTTP/1.0" 200 1503
72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:55 -0500] "POST /modules.php?name=Your_Account HTTP/1.0" 302 -
72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:40:57 -0500] "GET /modules.php?name=Forums&file=posting&mode=newtopic&f=1&mode=newtopic&f=1 HTTP/1.0" 200 49847
72.232.x.x - - [18/Aug/2006:10:41:05 -0500] "POST /modules.php?name=Forums&file=posting HTTP/1.0" 200 29036

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Do you allow guests to post?

chicago · New Member Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 6

I will check

how do i check ?

I checked forums admin and found Enable account activation set to none.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

It's actually in the admin, forums, permissions settings. You can turn off the ability for guests to post for each forum.

chicago · New Member Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 6

that settting is no

evaders99 · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:35 am

Probably a robot, I've seen signs of it myself. Is the confirmation code turned on?

chicago · New Member Joined: Apr 24, 2005 Posts: 6

Is the confirmation code turned on? yes

that is whay got me thinking

the site i s running 7.6

is there a upgrade path to your phpnuke version ?