[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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