This is a discussion on Spam Fighting (VBulletin) within the Webmaster Discussion forums, part of the Webmaster Help category; I have noticed a lot of new spam members on one of my vb forums so i decided to look ...
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| I have noticed a lot of new spam members on one of my vb forums so i decided to look up some spam prevention methods Akismet Anti-Spam - vBulletin.org Forum SpamBuster v1.0.0 (Stable): Identify, log and remove spam posts on your forum - vBulletin.org Forum I'm going to install this one ^ now. I saw a modification before which replaces the captcha with a simple math question like 'what is 7 - 2'. That should prevent intelligent captcha reading bots from registering. |
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| You mean this one: NoSpam! - an alternative to CAPTCHA images - vBulletin.org Forum ?
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| sorry to hijack but is there anything similiar out there for phpBB? |
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| sure is, but i haven't used phpbb in a while now phpBB Antispam Mods: Anti-spam protection for phpBB and this thread on phpbb.com phpBB.com :: View topic - [2.0.19] AntiSpam Mod |
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| You could probably get bad behavior (sic) to work with both vbulletin and phpbb2 if you did a bit of work (though maybe that's already been done) Unlike the other suggestions that I've seen bad behavior blocks them before they even get to post anything, as it does it based on UserAgent strings amongst other things... I think I'm still using it on my blog...
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| that looks very interesting michele Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour - Homeland Stupidity just a quick Q...do you need to edit every php file with a php includes for the bad behavior tool to work? |
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| The main one I'm using is this: Check Proxy RBL on New User Registration. - vBulletin.org Forum Makes my life infinitely easier
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