Has anyone got any suggestions how I can stop bots filling certain sections of a forum with warez / spam?
Measures we have taken are:
When a user signs up there name, email and ip address are checked with the database on http://www.stopforumspam.com/
The user is also required to enter a reCaptcha word and answer a question such as "what would you put in a toaster?" when registering.
Despite this every few hours the forum will be hit with a wave a spam which will be continually posted until the user account is banned, example of this:
Even after a user has been banned they can be seen on the active users list trying to create a new post, despite some of them been banned for the last 3 months... we think some bot is been used to post spam.
If its of any help we run vBulletin 3 and will be upgrading to version 4 this summer.
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Has anyone got any suggestions how I can stop bots filling certain sections of a forum with warez / spam?
Measures we have taken are:
Despite this every few hours the forum will be hit with a wave a spam which will be continually posted until the user account is banned, example of this:
Even after a user has been banned they can be seen on the active users list trying to create a new post, despite some of them been banned for the last 3 months... we think some bot is been used to post spam.
If its of any help we run vBulletin 3 and will be upgrading to version 4 this summer.
Any suggestions will be welcome, cheers :)
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