spacebiscuit75 1 Posted February 13, 2020 Of late I have noticed in my action recorder that someone is posting messages with nonsense messages. I have Captcha setup and I have also added some custom sanitisation to kill the process when certain criteria is met. All of these posts are coming from he same region (Russia) so it is clearly the same person(s) carry this out. I have asked my host for a security scan which has passed, what are they trying/hoping or what might they have achieved. I can see at least 6 months of this type of activity so I can't imagine they must have had some sort of gain or success to date. Any ideas? Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_mcs 1,054 Posted February 14, 2020 It might be spammers trying to send out emails. Just because they all seem to be from Russia doesn't mean they are from the same person. If you have no intention of selling to someone from Russia, then the best approach is to block the whole country. Short of that, it depends on the message. If it just contains text, no email addresses or url's, then it is not possible to block them based on the message. If it does, I suggest you install the Honey Pot addon and set the automatic blocking option. Support Links: Need Help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC version (the community-supported responsive version) here. How to Upgrade to the latest version Recommended SEO Addons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ScottCTU 0 Posted April 3, 2020 How would you block lock the whole country? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_mcs 1,054 Posted April 3, 2020 Install View Counter. It has a country blocking option. 1 valquiria23 reacted to this Support Links: Need Help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC version (the community-supported responsive version) here. How to Upgrade to the latest version Recommended SEO Addons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gassko 1 Posted April 8, 2020 I have same problem. Captcha is installed, but still up to 100 emails can be sent. Please if you have any other ideas. Tx. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_mcs 1,054 Posted April 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, gassko said: Captcha is installed, but still up to 100 emails can be sent. Are you using the mentioned Honey Pot addon? There are a few code changes needed to limit what gets through but you should not be getting that many. Also, I don't understand what you mean by "100 emails can be sent." but if you are not using Honey Pot, that would not be unexpected. Support Links: Need Help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC version (the community-supported responsive version) here. How to Upgrade to the latest version Recommended SEO Addons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gassko 1 Posted April 8, 2020 Just now, Jack_mcs said: Are you using the mentioned Honey Pot addon? There are a few code changes needed to limit what gets through but you should not be getting that many. Also, I don't understand what you mean by "100 emails can be sent." but if you are not using Honey Pot, that would not be unexpected. Hey, no dont have Honey Pot ye, just found it. I will install it now. Does it have any effect if Captcha is already installed? I just disable it? Tx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_mcs 1,054 Posted April 8, 2020 It won't conflict with some other captcha code but that captcha will still show on the page so it might be confusing to your customers. Support Links: Need Help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC version (the community-supported responsive version) here. How to Upgrade to the latest version Recommended SEO Addons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gassko 1 Posted April 17, 2020 After I installed Honey pot addon, now when new user is created following error apears: 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-shop2015 like 'honeypot_track'' at line 1 show tables from repgas01_datalogger-shop2015 like 'honeypot_track'[TEP STOP] Please help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack_mcs 1,054 Posted April 17, 2020 In includes/functions/honeypot.php, change this line tep_db_query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " . $db_table . " (ip_number INT( 64 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, to tep_db_query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `" . $db_table . "` (ip_number INT( 64 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, and this line if (! tep_db_query("show tables from " . DB_DATABASE . " like '" . $db_table . "'")) { to if (! tep_db_query("show tables from `" . DB_DATABASE . "` like '" . $db_table . "'")) { Support Links: Need Help? See this thread and provide the information requested. Is your version of osC up to date? You'll find the latest osC version (the community-supported responsive version) here. How to Upgrade to the latest version Recommended SEO Addons Share this post Link to post Share on other sites