Spammer With Long E-mail Address.

[weststekker]

 I have recently experienced a problem a Spammer trapped by the Forum Error Log. He uses an E-mail address over 6,000 chatacters long. The problen is that to get rid of him you need to check the entry and then click on remove entry. The problem is that this is now at the far right of the screen and unlike SMF 1.1.18 you do not have a scroll tab at the bottom of the screen. I have formulated a method of deleting this entry. After checking all entries in the log, make sure this person I.P. 142.4.98.242 is on the second page of entries. Go back to page one and check select all and then to the right, remove all. This will get rid of the offending entry. I hope this is of help to others.

Colin.

[kat]

That's sure worth sharing, Colin!

Does this retard Spamtard have a name? Or, does he change it?

I wonder if we could introduce a "Max length" for e-mail addresses, to try and combat this?

[Arantor]

That's interesting, how does a 6,000 character email fit into a 255 character field?

[Kindred]

K@... there is a max length. As Arantor points out, the field is limited to 255 characters.

and, if it mattered, you could put a limit on the input field in regsiter.template.php

[kat]

Hmmm. I wonder how this happened, then...?

[Arantor]

Even more interestingly, RFC 5321 (the most recent iteration of SMTP) defines the maximum length of an email address to be 254 characters anyway. (At least, where possible but accepts that there are certain circumstances where that limit may have to be breached.)

[kat]

To borrow, again, from that nice Mr. Dodgson...

Curiouser and curiouser.

[weststekker]

He Does use various user names each time. I am not sure if your system will accept this post.

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Colin.

[Storman™]

aaliyahaaronabbieabbyabdulabelabigailabraham............

Loads of names joined together then...

aaliyah
aaron
abbie
abby
abdul
abel
abigail

.... as so on...

[Kindred]

Te thing is, the databae field won't even accept that...

[vbgamer45]

What does the full error log message say?

[weststekker]

  I am keeping this error on an SMF 1.1.18 forum as it is easy to remove. It was similar on a SMF 2 forum but I am unable to check as I have now removed it. I will send a Copy & Paste post seperate post.

Colin.

[weststekker]

 Copy and Paste of error mesage.

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(IP 142.4.98.242) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.

Colin.

[Arantor]

Oh, I see.

The bulk of the problem is actually the formatting of the error log in this case, followed by whatever mod you have for spam feeling the need to dump spam entries into the error log...

[weststekker]

  I have inherited any settings made to the forums that I now have to deal with. I am a user not a whizz kid and thought the information might of been useful to others who may come up against a similar problem. It seems strange that forums using SMF 1.1.18 and SMF 2 deal with this problem the same way. Thanks for your time in trying to sort this problem.

Colin.

[Kindred]

As Arantor said... it looks like you have some sort of anti-spam mod installed which dumps the data into the error log. This is not an error that you would see on a default installation of SMF.

[Colin]

Admin -> Package Manger


What is in there?

[weststekker]

 Here is a list of Packages as requested.

Browse Packages.
1.   SMF Gallery Lite    3.1.4     
2.   Dizzy Smileys   0.5.0.1     
3.   ResizeImagesToFitScreen    0.1.6     
4.   Simple Image Upload    1.3.0 
5.   IP-Address Tracer    1.0 
6.   Stop Forum Spam    1.0     
7.   SMF 2.0.3 Update    1.0     
8.   Auto Respond    2.0.1     
9.   SMF 2.0.4 Update    1.0     
10.   Birthday Posts    0.12.1 Beta 
11.   Tinypic Plugin    1.0.0 

View and Remove Installed Packages
Mod Name   Version   
1.   Tinypic Plugin   1.0.0   [ Uninstall ]
2.   SMF 2.0.4 Update   1.0   [ Uninstall ]
3.   SMF 2.0.3 Update   1.0   [ Uninstall ]
4.   Dizzy Smileys   0.5.0.1   [ Uninstall ]
5.   SMF Gallery Lite   3.1.4   [ Uninstall ]
6.   Birthday Posts   0.12.1 Beta   [ Uninstall ]
7.   Stop Forum Spam   1.0   [ Uninstall ]
8.   ResizeImagesToFitScreen   0.1.6   [ Uninstall ]
9.   Auto Respond   2.0.1   [ Uninstall ]
10.   FantasticSmileys   1.0   [ Uninstall ]
11.   CATINTHEHAT   1.0   [ Uninstall ]
[ Delete Mod List ]   

Colin.

[Kindred]

and, as expected and as written...
you have 6.   Stop Forum Spam    1.0

So, the problem would appear to be from that mod, not from SMF

[weststekker]

 Could you advise me of a Spam Filter that is from SMF that could replace it.

Colin.

[Arantor]

Use Bad Behaviour, Misc Anti Spam and add a couple of anti-spam questions in the admin panel.

[Kindred]

SMF does not have features which require third party configurations...   So, there is none "from SMF"


personally, I use
Questions (default SMF feature)
bad behavior+httpBL (registered to project honeypot)
stop spammer (which also draws from the SFS database and does not seem to have this problem)

Arantor has also just released a mod which will probably be very useful.