Fricken China

[DailyDi]

Trying to find out what is locking up the photo gallery, turns out a Chinese spam bot enter 1.4 MILLION fake user accounts

[Bettypooh]

China too sell 1.4 million fake product to American hunting bargain. We make very hard effort for you

Some sites I'm on don't activate new members until they are verified. That would be a tough job here with the numbers we have signing up, but if we have to...........

Banggood or Aliexpress probably sells an affordable

[DailyDi]

have installed a captcha wall and email verification to slow them down.

[AwakenEvil]

Damn

[DailyDi]

Have disabled registrations on Megapics for now. Even with Captcha and email validation 40 a minute were getting through!

[Bettypooh]

Wow- Captcha used to be pretty darn good at stopping bots I wonder if they've got a serious character-recognition program or if they are using humans for that? If the former then the whole world is in trouble!

When it comes to hacking stuff, China is in the front pack and racing hard to be #1 It's about the same as when Russian hacking took off after the USSR dissolved so it's likely to get even worse

Glad you're on top of it and wishing you didn't have to be.

Bettypooh

[Repaid1]

Surprised to hear you mention Banggood...I guess it's more popular than I thought. A couple of years ago that's where I got all my R/C stuff as they had it alot cheaper. The 3 weeks it took me to get the stuff was a bit of a bummer though, but I got used to it. I recently (last week) was astonished by two separate purchases from two separate places in china. I ordered both of them around 2 in the afternoon on Friday...and I about freaked when DHL knocked on the door and delivered both of them on the following Wednesday at 1 in the afternoon. I don't get that kinda service from west coast orders!

Anyway, would these kind of troubles be what may be causing the main site to run slow? I know I am harping on it, but it's starting to get frustrating. It's half speed, quarter speed, "Crawl" speed", go get a drink..mow the lawn speed

Edited August 19, 2015 by Repaid1

[Elfy]

I did hear there was a new form of captcha that was much harder for a bot to trick or something like that, maybe it isn't as effective as they thought, or maybe the bot makers have adapted to it already.

[Bettypooh]

I can't recall what it was called or where it was, but just last week I had to verify by selecting 3 pics from a dozen on a page that matched a word they gave which was "soup". Of course there were only 3 bowls of soup pictured out of them all.

Edited August 19, 2015 by Bettypooh

[DailyDi]

Yeah the photo captcha is awesome, wish that script would add it there's is too simple, computers can read it