Helloo all,

Sorry about the horrendous amounts of spam. I'm amazed and proud that the mods have done such a great job keeping up with it.

Those of you who have been here long enough will no that I'm quite an awful admin when it comes to almost everything *sadface*. Thankfully 2.0 e-mailed me about the spam and now I know I'm going to try and install a plug-in recommended by Jobe to fight it.

Let's hope it works.

~Peter

Okay, so I've installed this mod which may help. Hell knows how they are getting past the captcha. This mod takes a different approach and checks the registration usernames/I.P. addresses against a blacklist.

We'll see how it goes... bed time for me now I'm afraid!

Hell knows how they are getting past the captcha

Okay, it's been reported (http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/) that the captcha mechanism has been cracked very recently and that botnets are targeting forums. I'm trying to find a mod that will allow me to modify the registration form. There used to be a custom question but it's not working anymore for some reason :/

Are you trying to enable vBulletin's question+answer registration method? or using a third party plug-in to do the same?

The reason I ask is sadly you cannot have both captcha and Q&A (vBulletin's own) at the same time, the only way to have both is if the Q&A is provided by a third party plug-in. However I am currently unaware without looking for one of the existence of such a third party plug-in that provides Q&Q for registration.

I will say though if you enable Q&A you will need at least 20, ideally a lot more, questions to make a dent at foiling determined spammers.

Also the good news is spam registrations have dropped considerably since you installed the mod. :smile:

I'd forgotten vBulletin had integrated the anti-spam question thing, it used to require a mod (which I still have installed) and it was that mod which isn't working.

I've enabled the vBulletin Q&A now but some ideas for questions would be most welcome as I've only done 3 so far, they should be simple English if possible due to the non-English speakers that join here.