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Topic: Brand new bots (I assume) posting nonsensical garbage. (Read 327 times)

legendary
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I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP?

They always seem to list a  event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one.
We know. The nuking bot should be catching them, but there are a few issues with it. Those users are nuked on sight.

On a side note, the urls that they link to are somewhat interesting. They all link to legitimate institutions and I contacted them to let them know that they had some sort of compromise on their systems that was letting people host potentially malicious PDFs on their sites. The ones I contacted were the University of Colorado (!), some branch of the Australian Government(!), A non-profit group, a news website, and two companies. On the Aus. Gov't and the non-profit replied and they said that they have fixed the problem on their end to stop people from accessing those links so hopefully that will help.

I thought the links looked legitimate and that's why it was even more confusing!! I didn't see those exact ones but similar for sure.

They do get ip banned as do all other bots but they obviously have access to a lot of connections. Just keep reporting them as annoying as it may be.

Will do. At least they're easy to spot because the titles never make sense at all.
global moderator
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They do get ip banned as do all other bots but they obviously have access to a lot of connections. Just keep reporting them as annoying as it may be.
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I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP?

They always seem to list a  event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one.
We know. The nuking bot should be catching them, but there are a few issues with it. Those users are nuked on sight.

On a side note, the urls that they link to are somewhat interesting. They all link to legitimate institutions and I contacted them to let them know that they had some sort of compromise on their systems that was letting people host potentially malicious PDFs on their sites. The ones I contacted were the University of Colorado (!), some branch of the Australian Government(!), A non-profit group, a news website, and two companies. On the Aus. Gov't and the non-profit replied and they said that they have fixed the problem on their end to stop people from accessing those links so hopefully that will help.
legendary
Activity: 1382
Merit: 1122
I keep reporting these posts in tech support that are always posted by a brand new account with a random gibberish name. Is there no way to IP ban them or do they keep using a new IP?

They always seem to list a  event going on and have a link which I don't click. This one just happened to have a lot of links but usually it's just one.

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