There are very few categories of people who I would line up against a wall and have shot...

[jducoeur]

... but Russian spammers have managed to make their way into that list.

I just discovered that the Rolls Ethereal have been vandalized -- utterly, meticulously and very intentionally destroyed -- by a spammer. Special. Not going to be simple to recover, either, since the bad data is interleaved with the good in the logs. In theory, I can fix this; in practice, it hasn't been done before, and some of the tools I need don't exist yet (I added the logging facility a long time ago, but not the tool to recover from the logs), so a bunch of time that was going to be spent on wiki-tech instead has to be spent on the Rolls. What fun.

Anybody know a good captcha package for Perl that I can drop in here?

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Man, that sucks. Condolences.

stupid other login

[tpau]

what did they do to them? andis it in russian?

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I take it restoring a backup from a date before but as close to the vandalism as possible is not a viable option?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of captcha packages on CPAN, but I have no experience using any of them. CGI::Application::Plugin::CAPTCHA looks promising.

Are the source IPs of the changes filterable in some way? All associated with domains in *.ru where nothing else is, or the like? That'd speed things up considerably...

[laurion]

Not readily available for perl, but you want to drop in http://www.kittenauth.com/

*grin*