Authentication

I hope I am placing this in the right section.

I struggle along managing two web sites for Junior Athletic organizations. Each of these sites have feed back pages on them, that allows the user to generate feedback to members of the organization. The feedback form sends the required info to the isp which forwards the information in an e-mail to appropriate members of the organization.

The spammers are hitting the forms and sending messages about medication and other stuff several times a day. I changed the e-mail address that the isp uses to forward the information but they automatically picked up the new address and sent an e-mail within seconds.

I am looking for a solution. I don't know how to do it, but is it possible to use what I call "Image Authentication" to solve this problem. I see this on many web sites where the web page requires the user to input characters that are generated in an image into an input box and submit to the host for authentication.

If someone is aware of how to do this, could you please provide me with some code and instruction, Or do you have another idea?

Thanks in advance for any assistance

Bline

Are you using PHP?

If so, Captcha is what you're looking for. This is my favourite here: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html.

Hope this helps!

No I use FrontPage.

Thanks

Billie

Frontpage is your program. What does the file end in? .php?

Not even sure if frontpage will allow for this as frontpage extensions on the server tend to break everything and anything not frontpage related. So this means you are running on a windows server (which is bad enough) loaded with frontpage extensions (which is even worse). you are pretty much prone to all sorts of security holes and attacks regardless of what you do.

Your best and easiest bet would be to make a small batch of "captcha" images yourself and use those, won't be automated but it may help.

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.htm, .html or .asp

Thanks

Bline

You can try this: http://www.tipstricks.org/ not sure how good it is etc..

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