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Captcha (even stronger ones) not secure enough`?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:52 am
by jaal
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
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:28 pm
by kleinerChemiker
maybe try recaptcha.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:32 pm
by sonichouse
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.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:31 pm
by jaal
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.-..
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:19 pm
by kleinerChemiker
are you shure, you have activated them?
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:46 am
by jaal
Yes, I am. But only if there isn't any other activation than in the SPAM plugin.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:51 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Are you sure you are getting COMMENT spam, and not TRACKBACK spam?
For trackbacks, Captchas cannot be used.
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:07 pm
by jaal
*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
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:36 pm
by garvinhicking
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
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:37 pm
by jaal
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
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:30 am
by garvinhicking
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
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:49 pm
by jaal
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
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:05 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!
What about commentform.tpl?
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 pm
by jaal
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
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:46 pm
by garvinhicking
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