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Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4268

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My site runs the following software:
Joomla 1.0.15
!JoomlaComment 3.26
PHP 5.2.8
MySQL 5.0.77-community
Apache 2.2.11 (Unix)

I have used the software for a long time with great success. Thank you for a great product. I have always had anonymous comments disabled.

In the last week or so, I've started getting Anonymous comments anyway. Each of them has only an attempted link to a website in russia. (Example )

They've been one or two a day. I keep deleting them, but I wonder why this is happening at all.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4270

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Well, perhaps you are getting spamed from a bot, or a real person is going on your website and is posting the comment.
I'm looking at our captcha system to improve it right now. If I have success with improving it I will write a blog post about it.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4273

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But if it's a user, it wouldn't say "Anonymous," right? It is obvious to me that it's automated, so it's some kind of bot, but why is this bot being allowed to post anonymous comments, when I don't allow anonymous comments?

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4274

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When I was on your site (not logged in)i was able to see the comment form.This means that you didn't enable the feature.

If you enable it - anonymous users will not be able to see the form and will not be able to post.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4275

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They can see the "write comment" link, but if they click on it, it says that you must be logged in to post a comment.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4278

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may I see you site?

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4280

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Backupcentral.com
Knock yourself out :)

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4282

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LOL, man! That sounds crazy! I really cannot believe that you are getting anonymous comments. Perhaps a user registered as anonymous? (don't kill me for this suggestion :))

Perhaps next time this user or bot posts a comment you can look at the server access logs to see what scripts were called?

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4320

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Here's what I got:
89.185.88.237 - - [04/Jun/2009:06:56:26 -0400] "GET /content/view/44/1/ HTTP/1.0" 200 22665 "-" "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12"
89.185.88.237 - - [04/Jun/2009:06:56:28 -0400] "POST /index2.php HTTP/1.0" 200 1245 "-" "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12"
89.185.88.237 - - [05/Jun/2009:19:28:38 -0400] "GET /content/view/44/1/ HTTP/1.0" 200 23764 "-" "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12"
89.185.88.237 - - [05/Jun/2009:19:28:42 -0400] "POST /index2.php HTTP/1.0" 200 1245 "-" "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12"

The content page is the page where they ended up posting the comment. There is no /index2.php, of course.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4339

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please don't tell me that you use joomla 1.0?

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4340

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Please tell me the following.
When you go in backend->extensions->joomlacomemnt->content settings->security
I suppose that you have the following settings:
Only registered: yes,
and
Captcha Enabled (recommended): is set to no

Am I right?

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4342

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You are right. And, I'm using Joomla 1.0.15. (I'm stuck here for the time being due to some glue with some extensions that I can't upgrade yet.)

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4346

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well, I think that the easiest option will be to turn on captcha and enable it for only unregistered users. If that doesn't work I will tell you what to change in joomla.comment.class.php file.

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4349

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Done. We'll see how it goes. Thanks. I expected when you saw I was running joomla 1.0.15, you would say "that's not supported" and go on your way. ;)

Anonymous Comments when they're not allowed 15 years 5 months ago #4350

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Well, that is a problem that exists also for 4.0(actually I just fixed the code) that is why I didn't tell you to go on your own way :)
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