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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:24 am Post subject:

233 one ip removed, as I think it was a false alarm. Algorithms updates to avoid triggering on that case. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:07 am Post subject:

250... The flood vising link now shows the Countries involved. I may start racially profiling the bans a dreadful thing to have to contemplate. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

265 but a couple of what I think were false alarms, each time this happens the testing gets tweaked a bit to help it not happen again. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:49 pm Post subject:

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject:

355... I believe it is finally slowing again. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

359... but there was actually a whole 5 minutes clear of any rogues. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:

Peaked at 360 down to 354. Lets hope that that does mark the start of what will be a slow decline. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject:

408.... so much for optimism. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:29 am Post subject:

455 This is really getting too much. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:46 am Post subject:

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:25 am Post subject:

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

520. I now have the profile of these attacks logged exactly, this makes it possible with 99.99% accuracy to zap them instantly. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:45 am Post subject:

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject:

602... I think we are simply on the forums list of some newly released auto-spamming software, the software is run my spamming morons 99.5% of who fall at the first hurdle of anti-spam measures and none of which get passed the CAPTCHA system. But they probably have a 1000 or more forums on the default list and so don't care about failures. Touch wood they can't use proxy servers as they would be flooding the proxy servers and get banned at that point, so the ip bans are reasonably safe. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

652... that is running at close to 1 a minute in terms of new bans, one failing registration attempt a minute is nothing load wise, but if we did not ban the ips what would that accelerate to I wonder? _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums