warewolfe Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 I've written a guest book in php and had security issues which have been solved ,thanks in large part to reading other peoples questions in this site, and the tutorials. Lately I've been getting seemingly benign comments from people with weird names. I've googled some of them and they turn up with exactly the same name and comments on thousands of forums. Does anybody know why people would write bots to do this? I suspect that it has something to do with using search engines to target forums but does anybody know what they hope to gain from this? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40966-suspect-entries-in-a-php-coded-guest-book-web-security-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelmanronald06 Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 advertisement of some sort. require people to enter a verification image before they can post a comment. since bots can't read images, they wont' know what to put in the box! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40966-suspect-entries-in-a-php-coded-guest-book-web-security-issue/#findComment-198379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
warewolfe Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 Sorry, That doesn't scan as there is no reference to a product, link or anything commercial. The comment is typically positive if non-specific. For the example the name of comment maker would be something like williamxc and the comment will be something like, "nice site, good information, will be back". Where is advertising in that? Also, the site is accessibility active. Can't put off the visually impaired. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/40966-suspect-entries-in-a-php-coded-guest-book-web-security-issue/#findComment-198388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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