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gengar56
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Username spamming/flooding
« on: September 06, 2002, 08:22:08 PM »		 Reply with quote
someone has registered over 8,000 usernames on my board. there is some kind of bot that is constantly registering them. what can i do about this? help!
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phark
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2002, 08:27:21 PM »		 Reply with quote
If its coming from the same IP address, ban that IP address in the admin center.
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gengar56
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2002, 10:34:41 PM »		 Reply with quote
how do i find their ip if they didn't post?
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phark
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2002, 11:02:25 PM »		 Reply with quote
Run a MySQL query on one of the names it created...  Go into MySQL and run the following query:

select * from yabbse_members
where memberName='evil flooder'

Where evil flooder is the name on the account they created.  Scroll over to the right and look for the memberIP field and ban that one.
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Mach8
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2002, 07:34:29 PM »		 Reply with quote
And to delete all those members:

DELETE FROM yabbse_members WHERE memberIP='<put in the IP here which you got from phark's query>' AND posts = 0
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2002, 08:26:28 PM »		 Reply with quote
There is also the show ip in profile mod which will give you their ip if they havn't ever posted.
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Re:Username spamming/flooding
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2002, 08:54:14 PM »		 Reply with quote
Thanks Mach... I thought about that after I posted, but couldn't get back on.  Seems there were some database problems with this site last night.   ::)
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