Spamming

[Darren]

As some of you may have noticed, we are being targeted by spammers at the moment.

I am keeping an eye on the forum and when I see them, I ban the poster and delete the post. In the meantime, please keep flagging them up using the 'Report' button and don't click on any link as who knows where it will take you and what is on the end of it (viruses, bots, trojans or porn).

Thanks.

[Judith]

Cheers Darren - I've been reporting madly! Can you just confirm - do you need to report all posts from the same spammer, or just one of them?

[roland and meg]

don't click on any link as who knows where it will take you and what is on the end of it (viruses, bots, trojans or porn).

None of them go to porn

[shane-uk]

I found using the I.p security block on my hosting account cpanel blocks the user/bots from all the sites I host

I know you can block the I.p from the admin control panel in phpBB if you don't use cpanel on the main hosting account
also maybe look at installing a mod like questions these can be maths or are you human questions or a good one I have used on a. Custom coded membership system is the text that says leave this box blank as bots are programmed to answer all the question boxes so they put text in the box rather than leave it blank

[Darren]

Thanks Judith. Just one will be fine as that's all the alert I need

[niki]

I have also been banning and deleting these posts as soon as I see any.

I'll have a chat with Daryl and see if there is any more protection at all we can use

[shane-uk]

you may want to look at this as an option

it is the anti bot questions

you set the questions and answers on the registration page

the bots dont get the answers right and they cant register
it works really well i use the same mod but on 2 smf forums

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=645075

[niki]

We do already use questions like this but somehow they seem to be getting round it.

[Admin]

you may want to look at this as an option

it is the anti bot questions

you set the questions and answers on the registration page

the bots dont get the answers right and they cant register
it works really well i use the same mod but on 2 smf forums

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=645075

Thank you for the suggestion but we already have this MOD on the forum, I have changed the question so lets see if it helps....

[Admin]

I have now added an Activation Justification box that must be completed, no justification, no activation. Accounts will be activated by me and therefore may not be instant any longer but should stop almost all spam.