[Nahara46]

So this has been going on for a few weeks, maybe a month, but my cbox has begun to be randomly spammed by what looks like advertisers, often in different languages. (I've seen what looks like Spanish, French, English, German, and Chinese/Japanese/Whatever i can't tell the difference between those kind of symbols). I ban each one but they've come with a wide range of very similar IP addresses. Usually come at night.

Anyone else have this problem? Right now my only solution is to ban each one I see and delete their messages. I haven't clicked any of the links they give because I'm not a fan of viruses, all I know is it looks like advertising.

Thought I'd bring it up here to see if anyone else has experienced this or has ideas.

[Riley Casper]

I've noticed this happening too on various sites. It's usually when they start becoming very inactive. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to deal with it yet either other than changing cbox providers.

Chatango
Smartchatbox

Are just a few that I've found don't have many advertizing bots show up. (if at all.)

[tsundere shark]

Go to your cbox settings (users > registered users) and set it so that users must be registered to post. The bots won't be able to register so that should keep them out. Or at least it works for me. It isn't much of a hassle for the actual members to register their names, anyway

[Kuroya]

Unfortunately there isn't much else to do other than exactly that, force members to register to post for a while. You can also do the text verification captcha things but I don't think you'll get very many that get past the register to post version.

Actually I think just keeping that up for a while will solve the problem since then you'll be taken off whatever list of known successes or whatever that might be kept for repeat times, though I'm not sure so don't quote me on that

[Nahara46]

Thanks for the help guys! Wanted to let you know that I enabled captchas and havent gotten a single bot since. I do see them on the online lists occasionally, but aLL ATTEMPTS ARE FUTILE MUHAHAHAHA