How to prevent a member account from automatically posting wildly after being infected with a virus? Criticism is welcome!
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This post was last edited by zlky2005 on 2012-12-5 at 15:19. In the 21st century, the Internet has become an essential part of our lives – it is used for communication, working, shopping, transferring money, and even getting married online... practically for everything. As a result, there are those who use various software, websites, and vulnerabilities to carry out attacks, stealing personal information and accounts in order to commit fraud. Haichuan is no exception; its user accounts have been hacked, leading to the automatic posting of countless illegal messages. Everyone still remembers the previous incidents of account theft, which caused significant losses and disruptions to our forum. To deal with this, in addition to improving hardware, software, and management practices, I think we can also take some necessary measures. For instance, when user accounts are stolen, hackers often use spamming software to post messages automatically, generating hundreds or even thousands of posts in seconds. Why don’t we put restrictions on that? Whether it’s QQ that we use nowadays or many other platforms, \"verification codes\" are employed to effectively prevent this vulnerability. Each time a post is made, a random verification code must be entered, which makes it impossible to post automatically. However, this might seem a bit troublesome for users and administrators – having to enter a verification code for each post seems inconvenient and unnecessary. But from a security perspective, I think it’s absolutely necessary. Especially in technical discussion forums, it helps to prevent spamming behavior; those engaged in genuine technical discussions shouldn’t find this a hassle! Do you all think it’s feasible, or are there any better ways? Criticism is welcome!
I think the most effective approach at the moment is to make your login password more complex and set up security questions, so it’s less likely to be stolen. Based on several incidents, it appears to be a software intrusion, as the IP addresses of the poster are not in the same location.
This is merely a measure to enhance security; after all, technology is constantly evolving, and even highly secure defense systems can still be attacked! ;P It is also necessary for the forum to strengthen its defenses and reduce vulnerabilities!
They must have also done a lot of work on the backend of these forums.
There are many software programs available online that can automatically ignore verification codes. Doing this doesn’t stop the automatic, excessive posting at all; instead, it causes a lot of inconvenience for ordinary users who want to communicate with each other. This is especially true for those with slow internet connections, as loading the verification images takes a lot of time. Regarding the issue of excessive posting, Haichuan developed a system in the first half of the year that automatically blocks posts containing a large amount of spam when they are posted in a short period of time.