WoW Gold spammers...argh!
Posted At : May 28, 2009 1:33 PM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: Rants/Raves
Related Categories: Rants/Raves
How are they getting past the captcha? I wake up every few days to about 12-30 spam comments on various posts here.
Is there a way to curtail this?
http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/
It is possible to break captcha using ICR software (or OCR). I'm going to demonstrate this at CFUnited this fall. I think some spammer software out there has all of the coldfusion blogs tagged and programmed to bypass the captcha, because I get a LOT of spam from captcha protected blogs these days.
Spam bots are not that intelligent to understand these questions ;)
Another suggestion would be to make a small db of the questions and display one of them on random basis.
Do let us know how it works for you.
Can I put it somewhere else?
If not, then my second choice would be to put it in the client's root. You see, in my dev environment, the 'root' would be /Projects/ClientName.
Can I define the root in Application.cfc with something like:
<cfset this.mappings["/"] = GetDirectoryFromPath( GetBaseTemplatePath() )">
As a third option, I could place the cfformprotect folder into my dev root, but then my dev source code wouldn't match my client source code.