How to detect an advertisement bot

[Zombie]

How to Detect an Advertisement Bot​

First of all, what is a bot? A bot is a program, or software developed with the sole purpose of completing tasks automatically at far greater speeds than humans are capable of. So an advertisement bot would be a program with the intention of advertising (also known as a spam bot).

Spambot may refer to:

• A program which performs or assists in E-mail address harvesting, a spammer’s tool;
• A mail filter program which fights the spam;
• A software used in a forum spamming, a spammer’s tool;
• IRC spambots – see Spam in Internet Relay Chat.

So what does this mean?
There are bots designed to register to forums, and make posts to advertise. Fortunately, they are very easy to detect.

What do bots look like?

• A Bot normally will not have an avatar or signature.
• A Bot sometimes speaks in gibberish.
• A Bot will constantly spell words wrong in order to bypass filters.
• A Bot will almost never input personal information.
• A Bot will usually have a generic username, often having something to do with what is being advertised.
• Bots tend to make very few posts, and the few posts they do make tend to be within seconds, if not fractions of seconds and happen to be of significant to great length at times. This can be checked by looking at the time stamp of the post in the top left corner appearing as "Date (Yesterday, Today), 00:00 AM/PM".

What are the negative effects of a spam bot?

• Wasted bandwidth.
• Threats of malware.
• Threats of browser/system hijacking.

How should I respond to spam bots?

• You shouldn't. Simply report them. If they are innocent, they are still advertising and still should be reported. In the end, it's up to the moderators and administration to determine the severity of the infractions and deal swift justice accordingly.
• Whatever you do, do not visit the websites advertised as they could and probably will be harmful to your computer and personal privacy.

 

[gamahiro]

Gamahiro's two cents:
You can't stop bots completely. They will always find new ways. You can, however, deter people from continuing to add narutobase to thier lists.
1) Mods and admins have to remove the posts immediately. Botmasters know we run a SEO. Thier posts might look like gibberish, but they are trying to rank up thier sites on search engines, with certain keywords. Report it as soon as you see it.
2) Links. Don't click on them. They get the referring url (narutobase.net/forums/*) and spam it even more, because they know there are morons there that click on their links.

Replying isn't a big deal, as long as it is a "warning spambot don't click these links" reply.

 

[Zombie]

That's a good two cents.

I figured I'd also add, anybody willing to create bots for driving up their site views, might also be interested in putting software on your computer with bad intentions, also known as malware. In fact, you could become more than just a victim, but an assailant as well if the malware adds your computer to the botnet. You could suddenly become responsible for spam advertising and not even be aware of it.

 

[Lawliet]

If this was set up nicely, with examples; i'd probably sticky it.

 

[Flawful]

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[Love Cook]

If this was set up nicely, with examples; i'd probably sticky it.

Yay i found some ! I think ?...

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Is it enough to just report the post ? i don't know else what to do.

 

[Zombie]

If this was set up nicely, with examples; i'd probably sticky it.

If I wasn't incredibly lazy, I'd probably have set it up nicely with examples.

Kidding, kidding, edited the first post some. Input would be appreciated.

So the nice lady who added me on msn didn't actually want to *** me. ;(

She was a he, weighs 520 pounds, and dresses like Sakura.

 

[Lawliet]

Yay i found some ! I think ?...

You must be registered for see links

You must be registered for see links

Is it enough to just report the post ? i don't know else what to do.

In addition to reporting

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, it's also best not to quote the post. Because if the bot happened to post in an important thread like let's say Manga discussion - we may delete the bot post but actually miss the post another member may have quoted which is carrying the bots advertisement anyway.

If I wasn't incredibly lazy, I'd probably have set it up nicely with examples.

Kidding, kidding, edited the first post some. Input would be appreciated.



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[gamahiro]

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Those are all examples of adbots using our SEO to rank thier sites up on Google, Yahoo, etc. Those are the ones that need to get deleted quickly. The more NB shows up on top, in search engines, the more botmasters will target us.

 

[Zombie]

Should probably censor URLs in the examples, so some less than normal thinking members wont be like "hmmm, I wonder if this is a real site." not to mention what Gamahiro said, by keeping the URLs in tact, it's probably accomplishing what the bots set out to do.