If you use the well known web forum PhpBB, we are probably facing some spam (robots which are registering and posting). The spam are based on the 3 'P' (Porn, Poker, Pills), on stock market announces, credit refinance, fast cash making.
PhpBB is not designed to be really efficient again spam (you can ban email addresses and IP addresses), and it is not designed for bulk admin.
The PhpBB-LPA plugin makes the link between the log files and the phpbb user profiles and posts. This has the following advantages for the admin:
Fig. 1:
Deleted users and posts: keep track of the spam activity in time, allows to see the effect of new security actions.
Fig. 2:
Last 10 posting users (note: you can have the full list by clicking on "Details"):
In one click, you can:The "spammer probability" column indicate the probability that a user is a spammer (computation method: for a given visit pattern, the spam probability is the number of deleted users divided by the number of activated users).
- See/delete all posts made by a user
- Ban the email address or domain name from your forum
- Remove a user profile
As in other LPA tables, the columns are sortable.
Fig. 3:
Last 10 IP addresses with deleted posts (note: you can have the full list by clicking on "Details"):
Displays the type of spam you are facing with (many messages per IP address or only one message per IP address?). In one click, you can:As in other LPA tables, the columns are sortable.
- Add the whole IP address list to your forum ban IP list
- See the IP address list as list of robots for your config.xml file
To use this plugin, you need:
Privacy:
These informations will be stored in the host's config.xml file and will be used only to make requests to your PhpBB forum.
Note on spam reporting:
Log(psycho)Analyst allows you to share with the LPA community the IP adresses that have been identified based on your log files. In order to enable this feature, a "spam target" must be defined. A spam target is a web ressource (e.g. forum, web site, blog) identified by a TID (=Target ID) and protected by a password. This way, only the people who knows the spam target ID/password can send spam information.
When an IP address is detected as used for spam, the following information is reported to the LPA IP spam database:
- Spammer IP address
- Number of posts on the forum
- Last post date
Privacy:
The spam target ID/password will be stored in your config.xml file and will be used only to report spam information to the Log(psycho)Analyst IP spam report databases. Your email address will be stored in LPA spam database and will be used only for technical exchanges by the LPA team.