[UCIMC-Tech] Captchas MIA

Sun May 1 18:09:16 CDT 2011

I just changed the settings so all forms use mollom's captcha  not textual
analysis. let me know if the spam continues.

Chris

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  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>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>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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