StopForumSpam Database Ruined?

[Kaiser]

Dont know what happened, just after I was done signing up they seem to have started getting an error... dont know if they got hacked or something. http://www.stopforumspam.com/

Is it just me?

 

[cornishman]

Yep, they seem to be having problems

 

[AnthonyCea]

Move to www.botscout.com

 

[Edrondol]

Move to www.botscout.com

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[Wired]

Been getting errors tonight as well from SFS.

Anthony: Why botscout? What makes them better than SFS?

 

[AnthonyCea]

Botscout has been around for a good long while and are for real, I do believe they have a better platform than SFS to be honest, although SFS is good too.

 

[Sador]

apache@localhost... lol..

Could be a ddos attack I suppose, or maybe they just have some random problems.

 

[AnthonyCea]

www.projecthoneypot.org is constantly attacked by spammers and hackers, they even publish a page listing the IP's of the attacks against them.

When you expose spammers and hackers you place a bullseye on your back, so this can be expected.

You need a great software firewall (mod security) and some great server admins to stay online in the anti-spam business.

 

[Kaiser]

Well they are fixed now. and anthony, the ones u keep recommending cant be integrated to xenforo or dont have a addon available.

 

[Luke F]

Going over the connection limit does not mean they were hacked

And the apache@localhost stuff is just each call to mysql_query trying to connect to the default server specified in php.ini, since the proper connection failed.

 

[Fred Sherman]

...the ones u keep recommending cant be integrated to xenforo or dont have a addon available.

Should have it for you in an hour or so. It doesn't see to be that hard.

 

[Fred Sherman]

Done: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/botscout-to-prevent-spambot-registrations.10231/
The one thing about BotScout that seems to make sense is they never get registered to begin with.