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#1 2010-03-12 8:56 am

poultryexcuse
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Registered: 2009-09-08
Posts: 96

Robot Fills Out User Profile/ICQ UIN Fields; Far Out "Man"

We see a lot of this on our vBulletin3.8.3.

Any idea which program generates this, and what the purpose(s) of those entries are?

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#2 2010-03-12 9:44 am

EOC_Jason
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Registered: 2010-01-28
Posts: 50

Re: Robot Fills Out User Profile/ICQ UIN Fields; Far Out "Man"

It's just an automated program registering. Xrumer is the most popular though I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds out there.

Certain fields they fill out somewhat correctly if it's a default for the big forum packages. Custom fields usually end up with something totally non-relevant (if they are attempting to fill out all fields or if a field is required).

Some spammers leave just about everything blank, some fill in extra profile data.

I don't know why their is such an unusually high % of ICQ UINs being filled out. Most people use AIM, MSN, or Google.... Only old school people use ICQ (or apparently 3rd world countries).

If you feel like doing a little coding, you can do a check to see if the Biography field == 'Man', and if so just auto-ban. I've seen many bots that put that in, must be the default set for some program and most spammers are too lazy to customize.

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#3 2010-03-12 3:09 pm

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Re: Robot Fills Out User Profile/ICQ UIN Fields; Far Out "Man"

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