[thelist] automation on members only sites

A Maynes andrew at milords.com
Mon Apr 25 10:45:31 CDT 2005


Sounds like your DB has been comprised MySQL by any chance?

Andrew


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Beston [mailto:alex at deltatraffic.co.uk] 
> Sent: 25 April 2005 16:19
> To: Evolt mailing list
> Subject: [thelist] automation on members only sites
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Im running a members only site with a mail facility to contact other 
> members.
> 
> over the weekend some kind of automated browser has searched for 
> members, send them a mail and repeated indefinately.
> 
> the pattern of accesses in the logs are too regular to be 
> anything other 
> than machine driven.
> 
> most worryingly of all, each member has a db table showing 
> who & when a 
> members details were viewed, but here nothing is recorded for 
> any member 
> shown as viewed in the logs.
> 
> are these programs readily available? how do you block them? 
> has anyone 
> any experience of this sort of thing?
> 
> thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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