Re: Lots of new members

Quote from: Arantor on December 14, 2014, 02:59:09 PM

Yes, that is how it works.

Thank you Arantor. I increased my question list to 28, and still require 5 to be answered.

It is going on 3 days with no spam registrants ...



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Quote from: Arantor on December 14, 2014, 01:12:41 PM

I'd also suggest looking at the wiki page previously mentioned, it offers some useful suggestions. There are a variety of anti spam mods available, and making your site furt...

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timetraveller.... it's much better to intercept and stop them before they even register in the first place.



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Quote from: Arantor on Yesterday at 08:40:25 PM

It's a low cost way for them to make money. Not by ransom but simply because there are people naive enough to click on the product links, pay them money - and the cost to ru...

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Ahhhh, this is nothing new. In fact this strongly reminds of the behaviour we saw back in 2010, same deal: floods of spam, then floods of trying to brute force accounts.



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Looks like they are now trying to guess passwords to log on ...



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Just got a report that we're being deluged by spam signups, as well (Hogville and FF) from Turkey, Poland, Germany.



Check to see where your signups are originating, please?



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Quote from: timetraveller on Today at 05:32:44 AM

So the captcha is effectively useless at the moment?

Yep. Waste of time these days.



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I'll have to try some of the add-ons. The standard functionality definitely doesn't seem sufficient anymore with these new spammers/bots. It was all working well until a few weeks ago, and it's getting worse.



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Spam - my forum is flooded with spam, what can I do



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Me too. 26 overnight. Another 4 while I was logged on.

In theory they can't post until I've approved them and obviously I'm not approving them - I haven't had any get past the approval process fortunately.



I had the captcha setting on medium security a...



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