SPAM HELP

myboonex posted 13th of May 2008 in Community Voice. 6 comments.

I am getting SPAM email coming in as guestbook comments. I turned off guestbook from admin settings but i am still getting comments. how are they getting around this. I need to stop this. If i am getting these spam then my members may be getting them too. Boonex is busy with upgrades so they are slow to respond, hop some of you know this anser.

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mscott•14th of May 2008

Hey, yeah the spammers use "bots" and "spiders" to crawl the internet looking for files named "guestbook.php" and they can post to them even if they aren't members or signed in. If you have disabled it in admin and aren't going to use this feature the quickest way to solve the problem is just to delete guestbook.php from your dolphin directory.. I did it on all my sites :-)

thanks
Mike
http://www.makeasocialnetwork.com

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gkcgautam•14th of May 2008

Yeah...deleting guesbook.php would be a gud choice at this moment. Once boonex provides some fix for it, you may reupload it.

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myboonex•14th of May 2008

Thanks mscoot and gkcgautam,
I just remvoved it; lets see what happens
thanks you again

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LHAdmin•14th of May 2008

what about simply renaming guestbook.php if you're not using it ?

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mscott•15th of May 2008

I don't even understand why we need a guestbook if we have profile comments? Do we really need both?

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LHAdmin•26th of May 2008•to mscott

As I understand it, you can't delete a profile comment but you can with guestbook. So until that is different, I am using guestbook rather than profile comments.
I think there was a mod for 6.0x to be able to delete profile comments I REALLY wish we had this for 6.1.1

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