Hi,

I'm sorry if this is old news but today there has been alot of spam Posted by Anonymous on September 15, 2011 at 7:02am

http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_multisitesearch/read%20more%20link%2...

e.g.
https://association.drupal.org/node/9079
https://association.drupal.org/node/9064

They seem to be all from the same S.O.B.
http://spyshield.in/...

How can people help stop this?

Comments

laura s’s picture

Title: many spam pages on association.drupal.org pointing to auto links » Anonymous spam nodes on association.drupal.org pointing to auto links
Category: support » task
Priority: Minor » Normal

These are question nodes.

I was able to delete the two listed, but do not have admin permissions to deal with them in bulk. They are posted by anonymous user(s), so there's no real way to block them. (We need Mollom or Spam module or something.)

We can continue searching for them, but it would be best if an a.d.o admin could deal with them in bulk.

laura s’s picture

Title: Anonymous spam nodes on association.drupal.org pointing to auto links » Thousands of anonymous spam nodes on association.drupal.org
Priority: Normal » Major

If the search http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_multisitesearch/read%20more%20link%2... is indeed a true indicator, we have hundreds of thousands of spam nodes to address.

I'm marking this as a "major" spam issue.

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

Some dolt had allowed creation of forum posts for anon users. No idea why forum module is even enabled there...

I've taken away that permission.

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

2221 is a more likely number of spam nodes.

I've started to delete those, but since the DA has actually paid staff, I am leaving the rest for them. :p

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

the oldest spam that I found was from 6 days ago.

drumm’s picture

Not sure if there is a more-official announcement of the forum, but https://association.drupal.org/node/1389#comment-1259 is something. I wasn't involved with it.

killes@www.drop.org’s picture

I have unpublished the spam nodes that I hadn't deleted earlier. Anonymous users may no longer post to the forum.

drumm’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » drumm
Status: Active » Fixed

Mollom was on the site, but not actually enabled for that form. I added it, and am keeping the permissions as-is, no anonymous posting. And I upgraded mollom from 1.15 to 1.16. I deleted all the spam posts and reported to Mollom.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.