Captcha (even stronger ones) not secure enough`?

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:52 am

Hi,

is it possible that the captchas have been "solved" by the spammers? (Like the gmail or hotmail ones...)

I'm receiving more and more spam in my blogs, even if I have enabled stronger cpatchas.

Jan

kleinerChemiker · Post by **kleinerChemiker** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:28 pm

maybe try recaptcha.

sonichouse · Post by **sonichouse** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:32 pm

Are they supplying the correct captcha on submit ?

Have you tried using recaptcha- this is quite strong ?

Using the Spam Protector plugin I validate the IP of the poster against known spammers using Akismet.

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:31 pm

Mhm... I grabbed my linux computer and checked my blog:
http://photoblog.janalbrecht.de/archive ... l#comments

It seems that the captchas have been totally gone... Any idead why this could happen? Even recaptcha didn't solved the problem.-..

kleinerChemiker · Post by **kleinerChemiker** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:19 pm

are you shure, you have activated them?

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:46 am

Yes, I am. But only if there isn't any other activation than in the SPAM plugin.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:51 pm

Hi!

Are you sure you are getting COMMENT spam, and not TRACKBACK spam?

For trackbacks, Captchas cannot be used.

Regards,
Garvin

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:07 pm

*gnah* Garvin, your right, as always.

It is trackback Spam. Is there any way to prevent that?

But on the other side my non showing captcha problems does still exist. (Or is anyone of you capable of seeing captchas on blog.salid.de?)

Tks

J

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:36 pm

Hi!

It is trackback Spam. Is there any way to prevent that?

Only by using and relying on Akismet. Or by disabling trackbacks.

But captchas I don't see on your side, that is true. how exactly did you configure the anti-spam plugin, with which options?

Regards,
Garvin

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:37 pm

Hi,

sorry for the delay, but my to-do list is killing me...

[Part1]

[Part2]

[Part3]

I hope I didn't missed a part.

Thanks
J

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:30 am

Hi!

Could it be that you ever modified your comments.tpl or commentform.tpl template file? To me the only reason why this would not work is if you removed the event hook to call the captcha plugin...?!

Do captchas show up if you use an unmodified /templates/default file for your blog?

Regards,
Garvin

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:49 pm

Hi,

good point.

But that's the only difference:

diff comments.tpl /tmp/serendipity/templates/default/comments.tpl
21c21
< (<a class="comment_source_url" href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}" rel="nofollow">{$CONST.HOMEPAGE}</a>)
---
> (<a class="comment_source_url" href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}">{$CONST.HOMEPAGE}</a>)

Don't ask me why I've changed that

But even replacing the comments.tpl didn't resolved the problem...

Jan

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:05 am

Hi!

What about commentform.tpl?

Regards,
Garvin

jaal · Post by **jaal** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 pm

Uhm, there wasn't any.
I've copied the default one in the directory (we're talking about ~/templates/<whatever>, right?) but that didn't helped.

Jan

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:46 pm

Hi!

Hm, okay, if you had no custom file, the default one would be fetched.

I'm really stumped, this shouldn't happen. I'm a bit out of clues as I've never seen this before, nor has it ever been reportedf. I would need FTP access to the installation to debug things, so if you'd like that, please send me a PM.

Regards,
Garvin