Oh wow thats a nasty lump of software Someone has taken a lot of time and effort to figure out what works and what dont i suspect that thing is Updated on a regular basis to stop site security blocking it, I think i shall go look into the source code for that Bot maker:-p people just love to leave Sigs ...
milligansghost | 01.01.07 - 2:02 pm | #

Man that's unreal.

That XRumer is the most popular around too...bastards.

It's amazing to me how fast they recognize the CAPTCHA. Sheesh..
TeMerc | Homepage | 01.01.07 - 5:22 pm | #

Totally fascinating and it confirms my suspicion that the bots are actually making posts to the forums. I even saw a couple of forums I recognize in the lists.

It's no wonder when you Google a spambot username, sometimes you get > 100,000 hits. It would be interesting to know the stats on how many of those bot users and their posts get deleted.
suzi | Homepage | 01.02.07 - 12:09 am | #

thanks, that was amazing for me. i never saw anything like that before, and now i wish terrible things to the ppl who made that prog....
innocent bystander | 01.03.07 - 2:58 pm | #

This is what makes forum running, administering, and moderating a real hell.

The number of times the same spam username has appeared on forums I'm at has gone up substantially over the past year, and we all have programs such as this one to thank for it.

Also, can the programmers and users of such programs please bear this in mind (I know you don't care, but many people do): these programs are often used to spam forums with porn, including kiddie porn. I'm referring to family-friendly forums, and would the programmers of this software like to have their 7-year-old daughters coming to them saying, "Mum/dad, what does this lot mean?" indicating a lot of links to nasty websites.
Angoid | Homepage | 01.04.07 - 1:20 pm | #

A program like this had to be expected, and it will not be the only one

Since a few months, i'm using a part of my personal forum as a spammer-trap (Open sections, not too difficult barrieres etc).
I'm right in the middle of processing the data, but it's clearly to see that a lot of forum-spam is allready standardized -- probably thru these kind of programs.

For those who want to take a peek at the provisional results. You can find them in my AntiMalware Information-forum


Jan
jahewi | Homepage | 01.07.07 - 10:30 am | #