Getting Horribly Spammed

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stoneddevil

Getting Horribly Spammed

Post by stoneddevil »

Script URL: http://www.coreyeacret.info/g_book/gbook.php
Version of script: 1.33
Version of PHP: 4
Hosting company: cwhnetworks.com
Have you searched THIS FORUM for your problem: yes
If so, what terms did you try: spam

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Out of nowhere, i started getting enough spam on my guest book to choke a donkey. Every day theres about 10 new entries, all with these links, and other than deleting them, i don't know what to do.
Henrie
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Post by Henrie »

Why have you disabled the SPAM filter? It is there to block bots from posting!
Sorry for copying another spam message to test this.

In your settings.php change

$settings['autosubmit']=0;

back to

$settings['autosubmit']=1;

That should make you a happier GBook user.

You should read the search results better, see link below:
viewtopic.php?t=488#1874
stoneddevil

Post by stoneddevil »

Because, a while back when i was modifing the script, using a little thing someone on here had posted, for adding some basic bbcode style stuff, it stopped working. And don't know enough to fix it
Henrie
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Post by Henrie »

I posted that code, and it works fine for me.

I guess the only option is to start again.
Take the original GBook file and modify it again.
The changes for styled text are in the following post: viewtopic.php?t=482#1864

Another possibility is to use a file contents comparison program.
You select the original gbook.php file (i hope you still have it) and your modified gbook.php file and open it in the compare program (like WinMerge http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/).
You can than visually inspect what code is changed. Find the code that is changed which is not part of the changes for the styled text as given in post viewtopic.php?t=482#1864 and change it to what it was in the original file.

If this does not work, than you should use option number one, to apply the modification again on the original gbook.php file. In this case you can best use the new GBook version 1.34 because of some extra added security. The line numbers will be a little different because of added code, but not very much.

Greetings,
Henrie
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