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Nertz
Junior Member
Canada
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 Posted - 13 September 2005 : 13:21:01
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Since re-activating the guestbook on our church site with OWM's new ver. 3.5, I've been getting several guestbook posts pending approval with objectionable material posted. These of course were deleted immediately, but checking the IP addresses from the posts at www.dnsstuff.com revealed most came from hosts on banned lists known to run automated scripts for creating spam. Wonder if anyone else who's installed guestbook 3.5 have run into this situation?
If these were indeed created by automated scripts, and only time will tell, I thought to adapt RGrund's Anti-Spam Registration mod to the guestbook... demo www.saint-pauls.ca/index.asp?main=/discussionforums/guestbook.asp?action=sign" target="_blank">here, no registration required.
If anyone is interested, I'll post the code after I'm done testing and had a chance to sanitize it.
cheers,
Nat
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
4969 Posts |
Posted - 13 September 2005 : 16:53:08
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Since re-activating the guestbook on our church site with OWM's new ver. 3.5, I've been getting several guestbook posts pending approval with objectionable material posted. These of course were deleted immediately, but checking the IP addresses from the posts at www.dnsstuff.com revealed most came from hosts on banned lists known to run automated scripts for creating spam. Wonder if anyone else who's installed guestbook 3.5 have run into this situation?
This is the reason why I added the moderation feature...
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If these were indeed created by automated scripts, and only time will tell, I thought to adapt RGrund's Anti-Spam Registration mod to the guestbook... demo here, no registration required.
If anyone is interested, I'll post the code after I'm done testing and had a chance to sanitize it.
Definately interested, it won't harm to add it as an optional feature. I haven't found the time to work on the update (as I said above) yet, and I think the Anti-Spam MOD is a nice addition.
Thanks, Nat.  < |
My MODs:
Birthdays - Custom Policy - F.A.Q. Administration - Forum Rules - Guestbook
Links Manager - MyOwnGoogle - Profile Views - Search Log - WebSearch
Useful stuff:
Forum and MOD Installation - MOD Installation Guide - Snitz v3.4.05 Readme - Free ASP Hosts - Support Snitz
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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Scottie
Starting Member
24 Posts |
Posted - 26 October 2005 : 15:37:27
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Hi Michael, Great MOD.
In what table is the guestbook data stored?
Thanks!  < |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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dcwebman
Junior Member
USA
105 Posts |
Posted - 03 November 2005 : 08:48:28
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| My other guestbook program has been getting spammed lately so this looks like a great addition. I did see a couple things. I signed the demo guestbook with garbage for an email address and was thinking it might do some kind of validity checking. No big deal since it has moderation. The other thing is that I got the moderation message and then went to look at all the forums. In the guestbook Last Post column it showed my name even though it hadn't been approved yet. It might be a good idea to only put the last post that was approved in this column.< |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
4969 Posts |
Posted - 03 November 2005 : 14:35:37
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Originally posted by dcwebman
My other guestbook program has been getting spammed lately so this looks like a great addition. I did see a couple things. I signed the demo guestbook with garbage for an email address and was thinking it might do some kind of validity checking. No big deal since it has moderation. The other thing is that I got the moderation message and then went to look at all the forums. In the guestbook Last Post column it showed my name even though it hadn't been approved yet. It might be a good idea to only put the last post that was approved in this column.
Thanks for your comments, Jeff.
I haven't updated the code on my forum main page yet, it still shows the info of all guestbook entries in the database, whether they are approved or not.
Since I plan to release the code as a tiny snippet for the users of this MOD I'll update the code then.< |
My MODs:
Birthdays - Custom Policy - F.A.Q. Administration - Forum Rules - Guestbook
Links Manager - MyOwnGoogle - Profile Views - Search Log - WebSearch
Useful stuff:
Forum and MOD Installation - MOD Installation Guide - Snitz v3.4.05 Readme - Free ASP Hosts - Support Snitz
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Zaphod616
Starting Member
USA
30 Posts |
Posted - 07 November 2005 : 21:13:45
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Hi, just want to say great mod and super easy to install cleanly. I have noticed one small issue though and not sure if its just something that I might be missing or what the problem is. If I have the anti-spam feature turned on, I dont get any display of the numbers to enter in the field provided. I've tried in both Firefox 1.7, IExplorer 5.5, both logged in as admin and as a general guest. In Firefox, I can see at least a few boxes where the numbers would be, but in Explorer I'm not seeing anything at all showing up. I dont have any other mod installed that would be using random numbers like that, so is there a prerequisite mod other then the guestbook mod that this would be reading from?
Thanks in advance for all your hard work. I've very seldom had to actually post questions because I can usually find the answers here already. Regards, Joe< |
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modifichicci
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Italy
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richfed
Average Member
United States
999 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2005 : 06:17:53
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Originally posted by Zaphod616
Hi, just want to say great mod and super easy to install cleanly. I have noticed one small issue though and not sure if its just something that I might be missing or what the problem is. If I have the anti-spam feature turned on, I dont get any display of the numbers to enter in the field provided. I've tried in both Firefox 1.7, IExplorer 5.5, both logged in as admin and as a general guest. In Firefox, I can see at least a few boxes where the numbers would be, but in Explorer I'm not seeing anything at all showing up. I dont have any other mod installed that would be using random numbers like that, so is there a prerequisite mod other then the guestbook mod that this would be reading from?
Thanks in advance for all your hard work. I've very seldom had to actually post questions because I can usually find the answers here already. Regards, Joe
Had the same problem ... you probably have your images in an image folder? If so, change line 58 on guestbook.asp to this:
Response.Redirect "images/" & ImageP & ".gif"< |
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Rocket468
New Member
USA
57 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2005 : 09:50:28
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If you move the include config file up you can use
Response.Redirect strImageUrl & ImageP & ".gif"
/guestbook.asp?action=sign is the search term these bots have been using on google, and yahoo. Might be other search engines too, buth these where used on my spaming.
Would it be worth the time to change the guestbook to action=post and then make action=sign redirect the ip to ipgate if installed?< |
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Zaphod616
Starting Member
USA
30 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2005 : 10:35:20
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Originally posted by richfed
Had the same problem ... you probably have your images in an image folder? If so, change line 58 on guestbook.asp to this:
Response.Redirect "images/" & ImageP & ".gif"
Thanks Rich, that did it! I was starting to feel like an idiot because usually I can find whatever problem I seem to be having on here. As Shaggy says, "Search is your friend" lol. I'm not a real .asp jockey by any stretch so I going nuts trying to figure out the problem was. Thanks again for your help, I appreciate it! - Joe< |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
4969 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2005 : 14:06:43
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Originally posted by Zaphod616
Hi, just want to say great mod and super easy to install cleanly. I have noticed one small issue though and not sure if its just something that I might be missing or what the problem is. If I have the anti-spam feature turned on, I dont get any display of the numbers to enter in the field provided. I've tried in both Firefox 1.7, IExplorer 5.5, both logged in as admin and as a general guest. In Firefox, I can see at least a few boxes where the numbers would be, but in Explorer I'm not seeing anything at all showing up. I dont have any other mod installed that would be using random numbers like that, so is there a prerequisite mod other then the guestbook mod that this would be reading from?
Thanks in advance for all your hard work. I've very seldom had to actually post questions because I can usually find the answers here already. Regards, Joe
Glad you like the MOD, Joe.
To your problem... I'll include the "fix" richfed posted in a future version.
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Originally posted by modifichicci
If you have MySql db try to change
strGBAntispam = 1
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strGBAntispam = "1"
in guestbook.asp (all the recurrences)
Umm.. haven't tested v3.6 on MySQL yet for some reason, will do that ASAP. Thanks for the info.< |
My MODs:
Birthdays - Custom Policy - F.A.Q. Administration - Forum Rules - Guestbook
Links Manager - MyOwnGoogle - Profile Views - Search Log - WebSearch
Useful stuff:
Forum and MOD Installation - MOD Installation Guide - Snitz v3.4.05 Readme - Free ASP Hosts - Support Snitz
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Rocket468
New Member
USA
57 Posts |
Posted - 08 November 2005 : 14:14:57
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| I did not notice any problems with v3.6 under mysql.< |
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MOD: Guestbook v3.6 (Snitz v3.4)
