email type headers appearing in browse categories

[bdeeney]

Hi

In my admin panel when i click on browse categories some strange email type header text is appearing. Why is this happening and is there a fix?

Brian

[Bryan Ex]

Can you post a sample bdeeney ? It helps to see these kinds of issues for a fix...

[bdeeney]

here is what I'm seeing in browse categories
- I've copied and pasted this

BROWSE CATEGORIES
Accommodation (2)
available Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows UK sub 10500 X-Means: 78c95d7a8716471c75cfc9a2e38cbb31 Subject: in the nglish town of unmow. he local church to: justmyself13@aol.com to: saguarogap@, B&B, Guest Houses, Holiday Homes
Business (0)
Community and Culture (0)
Education (0)
National Schools, Secondary, Third Level
Entertainment (1)
Food and Drink (0)
News and Media (0)
Newspapers, Other Media, Radio
Property (0)
Sport and Recreation (0)
Fishing, GAA, Golf, hands Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html Subject: well with it female hands are not often heavy enough bcc: fourhandz@yellowijds.com it will suffice to ladle it over the meat with a wooden or iron spoon. hey = shou

[bdeeney]

Here is a screenshot of my problem (attached)

[Bangkok Bob]

Hi bdeeney and Bryan Ex,

For what it's worth, I get a lot of spam messages (about pork and bacon) like that with email type headers added as comments in eSyndiCat Pro and version 1.2 installations. They come in batches, sometimes 30 but once 300, that I delete from the Admin Panel manually. They are not related to a particular link, as that part is blank, so they are easy to spot.

Best regards,
Bangkok Bob

[Bryan Ex]

There are several automated scripts for spammers these days that not only post to message boards but also sign up for new accounts... and even get past the captcha codes.

bdeeney... based on your screen shot I'm guessing that you do not have suggest categories set to moderation and one of these automated scripts has attempted to spam the category page. You can modify the suggest category page to use captcha but that only stops a few of the scripts out these days and most will pass through no problem. Best bet is to change config to moderate categories and then just delete the ones already there.

[bdeeney]

Hello Bryan

I've deleted the rouge entries manually
Is it worthwhile enabling catchpa - (I'll be reviewing all links manually)

Brian

[Bryan Ex]

At this point I would say yes... but the effectiveness of captcha is quickly diminishing. The automated software for spamming forums, guest books, blogs, and the like is running about $400 US I believe and usually someone spending that kind of money will go after the highest profile locations to post. Captcha will certainly lower how much you need to sort through in your admin panel but the only guaranteed way to block it is by moderation. If you want to see the kind of software we're all up against go to Google and search xrumer and check out the first link (especially the details pages!)

[Bryan Ex]

... I just checked that. Make it the second or third link on Google. Seems there's a war raging...lol