[UCIMC-Tech] Captchas MIA

Sun May 1 17:22:28 CDT 2011

With my set-up, when I'm not signed into my account I can see a link to 
the Mollom privacy policy, but do not see any actual captchas.

Could be unrelated, but we're getting a bunch of mortgage spam over the 
last couple of hours.
Mike Lehman

On 5/1/2011 3:33 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> all:
> I've just switched the IMC site from the reCaptcha module to the 
> Mollom module. All forms that are exposed to non-authenticated users 
> should now be protected either by captchas or by Mollom's textual 
> analysis.. For those monitoring posts, I'm hoping this reduces the 
> amount of spam posts that you see. please confirm if you note this.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:rebelmike at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     Found a little info that may be relevant.
>     http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/security/mozilla-patches-firefox-4-fixes-programming-bungle
>
>     Seems one of the fixes in FF 4.0.1 was to deal with a MS issue
>     with ASLR in Vista and 7 that made them "making the flaw as
>     exploitable on those platforms as it would be on Windows XP or
>     other platforms."
>
>     Maybe when they fixed things in Vista and 7, they broke cpatchas
>     in XP? Just speculation, but since many things funky lead back to
>     MS, this wouldn't surprise me.
>     Mike Lehman
>
>
>     On 4/29/2011 1:32 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>>     Chris,
>>     More info. I tried a test post on my other machine. Entered the
>>     displayed captcha, hit Save and -- then it gave me an error
>>     message and no longer displayed any captcha. Now that I've seen
>>     it twice, it was the same thing that happened the first time a
>>     couple of days ago, as I was trying a test post then, too.
>>
>>     You can sign in and out of your account, everything's fine there,
>>     but you never get the captchas back so that it's possible to post
>>     when not logged in.
>>
>>     My guess now is that this is an issue with Firefox. It's actually
>>     Firefox 4.0.1 that I'm running on both machines.
>>     Mike Lehman
>>
>>     On 4/29/2011 11:05 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
>>>     Thanks for documenting your troubleshooting Mike. I haven't had
>>>     a chance to look into this yet, and it appears that the issue is
>>>     inconsistent. I've had good results using the Mollom module for
>>>     captchas on other sites and I'm thinking of just switching the
>>>     IMC site to that. It uses a web service to do the captchas and
>>>     will also do textual analysis on fields which is an added layer
>>>     of spam protection.
>>>
>>>     Chris
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Mike Lehman
>>>     <rebelmike at earthlink.net <mailto:rebelmike at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         After some poking around...
>>>
>>>         Still no captchas on my usual machine, even after several
>>>         reboots. On my laptop, captchas are there. Both machines are
>>>         running XP SP3 and the latest version of Firefox (4.0), so
>>>         not sure why they just went MIA on the one.
>>>
>>>         And the captchas seem to be there for others, as we've had
>>>         some of the usual spam and one legitimate post since I first
>>>         noticed the problem.
>>>
>>>         This seemed superficially similar to the issue we've had
>>>         several times lately where someone accidentally turned
>>>         captchas off. Chris indicated that he'd reset that the last
>>>         time it happened and remove it from the editor's menu so it
>>>         couldn't happen again. However, that doesn't seem to be the
>>>         case here, as I can get captchas on my alternate machine.
>>>
>>>         I realize that this may just be my problem, but wanted to
>>>         document it in case someone else runs into the same issue. I
>>>         made no changes in settings AFAIK before this happened.
>>>         Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 4/27/2011 5:44 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>>>
>>>             Sometime today, the captchas disappeared from the website.
>>>
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