Posted by Paul Furman on 03/03/07 00:04

Varn wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a website coded in PHP, and a malicious person is
> posting fake spam messages to a low-security forum that I've coded.
> My forum code simply reads the POST data and in good faith
> posts the message to the forum and records the IP of the poster.
> Here is what is happening. Bogus messages are being posted
> always of roughly the same type or message, often with
> bogus URLs in them, and the IP address that I am recording
> is always random i.e. spoofed.

If it's an automated spam, you may have to install one of those things
with the wiggly jpeg letters & numbers to be re-typed by a live human. I
know someone who had to install something like that, I think it was a
simple plugin sort of deal. Sorry I'm not more specific.

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