Question

I've just seen that a very strange user has registered on one of my wikis, and I'm certain it's not a real person but instead some spam/junkbot.

Here's the homepage for the new user, judge for yourself: http://www.erebaltor.dk/bin/view/Main/EvstFuWuqi The wiki is in Danish but you'll recognize it just fine -- see the first 4 bullets.

Question: Have you ever seen something like this before, and what could be done about it?

Environment

-- TorbenGB - 17 Feb 2005

Answer

yeah, I just got that registration too. Along with CquniTop, and MeiHenGjd. Last fall ZhiXiongkang was registered on just about every public twiki install I could find.

I just delete the htpasswd entry and the user topics. Dunno what the "right" response is.

-- MattWilkie - 17 Feb 2005

Take a look at WikiSpam and BlackListPlugin which although it won't stop registrations by adding rel="nofollow" to external links it stops registrations like this getting any page rank provided you remove them promptly.

-- SamHasler - 18 Feb 2005

Please could you also share your log entries. I'd like to see what activity if any there has been on twiki.org from the same ip.

-- SamHasler - 18 Feb 2005

I'll try to remember this tonight when I'm back home. I don't have telnet access from work.

-- TorbenGB - 18 Feb 2005

I've checked my log (data/log200502.txt) now and there's no entry at all for 17 Feb when this user was created. Sorry.

-- TorbenGB - 22 Feb 2005