tipsy
Jun 24 2002, 09:26 AM
in an email to members the webmaster has taken down website due to cheater and will keep site down till this cheater is caught. When you go to website it states it cannot be found. They reference a thread going on here at the forum regarding cheaters in different countries that are signing up hundreds of false accounts.
quote:
Due to one of our members from Brazil creating over 1500 false accounts
today and continuing to create accounts we have taken the site down.
This cheater is using automated software to create accounts and by taking
down the site it will stop. We cannot just disable sign up as the
software bypasses this.
We apologise for the inconvenience and once we feel that the ###### has
given up we will open up sign ups once again.
Ian
Jun 26 2002, 07:30 PM
I don't userstand what is meant here by saying that the hacker is bypassing your attempts to disable signups. This isn't possible. You just aren't disabling signups correctly.
Taking your site down is completely unnecssary.
If you need help, let me know.
laurieg
Jun 29 2002, 10:51 AM
As I've said on several boards today... security solutions are fairly easy and simple. It is fairly easy to prevent someone from doing multiple signups, hacking your system,... you can even ban IP addresses to prevent this good functioning sites are important if you want business... taking down your site only hurts your business. If you need more information feel free to contact me.
Ian
Jun 30 2002, 04:59 PM
No, you can't ban IP addresses.
If you do that you end up banning legitmate users... for 80% of the internet population, IP addresses aren't static.
Because of that, banning a single IP (211.11.11.xxx) won't stop anyone. The only person it's going to stop is the next person who gets assigned the IP. From that point on you're denying every legit user who gets that IP when they login.
The only option then becomes to ban an entire network (usually an ISP). i.e. 211.11.XX.XX.
Once you've done that you're now taking the chance of denying a sigificant chunk of the internet. For instance, if you were to ban 216.26.35.xxx you have denied Sprint/Earthlink access to your site.
laurieg
Jul 1 2002, 12:00 AM
Either way there's a number of ways to develop an automated system that prevents users from multiple signups. If you can find the "cheaters" by hand, the process can be automated where you don't have to worry about it.
No offense meant, but isn't that kinda obvious?
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