Help with programming a forum spammer

[ussfletcher]

My friend set up a forum just to spam, and he challenged a bunch of us to get the most posts. I was wondering if it could be done in visual basic or another easy to use language. And how to do it.

 

[Twista]

doubt you get that help here ;/

 

[ussfletcher]

Oh well.

 

[dighn]

yes it can be done quite easily in VB, but I think you are lying about the friend part

 

[beggerking]

use DOM with vb, c#, etc, you can control textbox input, button clicks, etc.
input into textboxes, click buttons etc will be automatic.
just put it in a loop overnight.

 

[Markbnj]

It's not much of a challenge, nor is it much of a threat, if you can manage to write a bot that posts a bunch of messages in a single forum you already know the location and layout of.

It's much more challenging to write one that can go out and find forums, determine whether anonymous posting is allowed, register an account if necessary (including watching a mailbox for the activation link), and then spam contextual add replies to threads that have some interesting content.

 

[ussfletcher]

I don't need anything that complex. And yes it really is true about my friend setting up that forum. It has levels based on post count and everything.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: ussfletcher
I don't need anything that complex. And yes it really is true about my friend setting up that forum. It has levels based on post count and everything.

link to said forum

 

[Nothinman]

Perl has modules made just for automated interacting with web pages, it wouldn't be too hard to write a script to continuously post new messages once you know the steps the forum requires.

 

[Armitage]

With lynx you can save your entire session to a file, and then re-run it as a script. you could probably have a crude version up in about 10 minutes.

 

[sswingle]

Everyone always says they are doing it for a friend. People need to come up with better stories.

 

[Armitage]

Give us a link to the friend's forum - we can make it the AT 1st annual programming competition 😀

 

[Al Neri]

I see this thread dying quickly 🙂

 

[corkyg]

Locked, even. 🙂

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Armitage
Give us a link to the friend's forum - we can make it the AT 1st annual programming competition 😀

That sounds like fun.

 

[ciproxr]

let me guess your friend dosent want you to give out the link lol

 

[Zugzwang152]

lol, trolling has become so unentertaining lately. try harder dammit!