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You don't have any anti-spam stuff happening on your registration page, as far as I can tell.
Try this simple anti-spambot mod:
http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … e-mod-v08/
It's very easy to install in its basic form and can be very effective in stopping the kind of bots that seem to be bothering you.
You have lots of anti-spam options in PunBB.
The simplest IMHO is the mod below. Try it.
http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … e-mod-v08/
Then if it doesn't work or you want to try something more complicated 
, try another of the many mods available if you search this site on 'spam' or do the same on punres.org.
You might also want to have a look at this if you want to do the job completely:
Get serious. Google already deals with PunBB forums quite well.
If you want to SEO your forum, ensure it actually has useful content.
Spend more time making your forum community attractive and useful for real humans to use and contribute to, and the search engine bots will follow.
Spend too much efforts SEOing your forum and it will look like you have spent too much time SEOing your forum, and you will likely get the reverse of what you wanted from Google, since the Googlebot isn't stupid and you may then likey get penalised, rather than rewarded, for your efforts.
If you have a garbage or boring or dead forum that no one is visiting, lack of SEO may not be the reason for its lack of popularity.
Bump.
I know the wagon has moved on here, in a sense, but is this still part of the development effort for PunBB/FluxBB?
I know the new PunBB devs (as cyrillic users) might be more interested in the issues of both full-text and also multibyte, but did anything make it into any new code anywhere - for any of the 1.2* or 1.3 families?
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30395
It's old news to PunBB.org readers but now that it's on SecurityFocus (28/7/08) and has its own CVE # (CVE-2008-3335) as well, I expect more attention will be given to potential exploits of this vuln.
Hob Bramble, thanks for the notes on how you implemented reCAPTCHA. Very handy.
Hmmm. All I can suggest is that you check your forum configuration again - in particular looking carefully at the admin area options Administration >Forums then edit the permissions for guests etc in the required forums (can Read forums /Post replies/ Post topics etc).
Also have a look under Admin > User groups > Guests and check that you don't have guests allowed to post. Check up on your other User group settings too to make sure they are doing what you want them to.
There's no reason why the mod should stop working with 1.2.19 - none of the recent changes to punbb have affected register.php practically in any way at all.
[In fact I just compared register.php from v1.2.16 to the register.php from 1.2.19 and they are identical, except for the copyright line at the very top. So register.php has been very stable over the ages.]
Try the install again from scratch with just the basic mod, and see if that works, remembering to be very careful in putting the code in the right place etc. Then add in MattF's enhancements etc as required - also very carefully - and I can pretty much guarantee that it will still work.
You mean you requires users to register, but people appear to be posting [spam] when they aren't valid users?
In the past where this has happened (there have been a few posts about it on this forum) it has usually been because there was a 2nd copy of punbb installed on the same server and using the same database settings. Eg one guy installed punbb in one directory while he was setting up/testing his forum, then installed it again in another directory but kept the same database settings etc. And both were accessible from the web.
Maybe something like that is the culprit here?
Also, what do your web server access logs reveal - eg about the URL's the visitors went to on your site in order to post?
http://www.baara.com/q10/support
Support forum for Q10. 'Q10 is a simple but powerful [freeware, Windows only] text editor designed and built with writers in mind.'
Stock standard Oxygen punbb install.
What colour(s) do you need to change?
There are usually only three files you need to edit to make any style changes in PunBB 1.2x. Eg if you are using the default Oxygen theme:
YOURPUNFORUM/style/Oxygen.css
YOURPUNFORUM/style/imports/Oxygen_cs.css
YOURPUNFORUM/style/imports/base.css
A lot of the colour settings are in Oxygen_cs.css. Open it up and find the setting you are interested in changing and edit it. Use a CSS editor if necessary to open up and edit the file - eg TopStyle Lite.
If you aren't sure which bit of CSS needs editing, view the HTML source of the PunBB page you are interested in changing, and find out what CSS DIV or code is responsible for the section whose colour you want to change, then look it up in those three CSS files and change the colour there.
Even though it is a bit old, something like this
http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=39
will also help you visualize and understand which style does what in PunBB.
For more advanced style issues, searching this forum for specific help or the punres.org site would be a good idea.
Interesting! Thanks for the update. It's useful to know exactly how these things happen.
Pls let us know if you find out the [SQL?] injection came via PunBB, or via another app.
I get a 500 error when I visit www.ensanmiguel.com:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@portal.atsanmiguel.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.ensanmiguel.com Port 80
I doubt the problem here BTW is PunBB related. Your site may have been compromised at a deeper level.
I mean the server you are on hosts *hundreds* of other sites and a lot of badness can creep into such a server, from all sorts of directions.
Impressive. A good integration and customisation of Punbb. I like the modding of the forum index.
You probably don't need the '[ Generated in 0.240 seconds, 9 queries executed ]' there anymore across the site. Users don't need to see that.
I see. So the mailer hasn't been hijacked or hacked. This spammer eken just signed up as a forum member and worked his way down the userlist sending a message to each forum member, either manually (which it looks like from the send times of the emails) or through some automated process.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened before.
I wonder if there is any way to prevent it?
One way may be limiting the amount of messages a forum member can send throught the forum to other users during a particular time period - eg not allowing more than 100 messages to be sent per user in any 24 hour period via the forum mailer.
Yes. We were drifting a bit off topic.
Indeed, MattF.
To steal a quote from the bottom of the YUI link I posted above:
Graded Browser Support provides an inclusive definition of support and a framework for taming the ever-expanding world of browsers and frontend technologies.
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the W3C, has said it best:
“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
This BTW doesn't mean that pages should only support the lowest common denominator interface - eg browsing on a mobile phone using Opera Mini or using Lynx.
This whole 'upgrade your browser to use this site' issue is of course similar to the issue of sites that make their interfaces totally Flash dependent, sometimes even requiring a specific version of Flash to be installed in your browser. That's pretty stupid too, and annoying, esp for people like me who don't let Flash run in my browser.
The IE users just need to upgrade to a compliant browser, welcome to the World Wide Web.
Try telling that to your corporate IT department sometime if you are in some huge business or govt agency 
There are more than just individual end users out there to worry about.
I also still believe good web developers should provide a good experience to most web users based on a coherant design philosophy. I like approaches like Yahoo's UI Guidelines to this:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
IE6 is still certainly there....
Even if the site progressively and elegantly degraded to drop off some FF or Opera or mac specific fanciness that would be OK and I'd consider that 'support for IE6'.
But big chunks of the forum in question just plain break in IE6 - like the ad images going walkabout up into the forum header.
This suggests to me that they have written some in-elegant CSS or jscript somewhere, rather than the problems (except for the PNG transparency issue perhaps) being IE6 specific.
There are LOTS of CSS etc heavy sites that look as beautiful on IE6 as any other modish browser. I can spend all day browsing the CSS Garden examples with nary a problem cropping up in IE6, for example.
http://plugins.movalog.com/forums/
Boring implementation. They need to update their PunBB version too.
Dr.Jeckyl wrote:i was searching if the iPhone had theme capabilities and found this.
I'm a mod on this forum. They've also just updated the layout.
You should have a look at it using IE6 sometime. While it looks great in Opera, Firefox etc, it is a real dogs breakfast in IE6. What a mess. Mainly due to IE PNG non-transparency issues I suspect but perhaps also some bad CSS or JS. The top ad bar has gone completely wonky and the ads literally sit on top of the site logo and the left half of the menu. And the text in the 'Staff Contact Us Powered by PunBB RSS' section is showing up as white on white invisible. And the image background has broken up all over the place too. Etc. Pass it on.
Oh, and look at the query count too - I am now seeing **27** queries just to view this.
What happened to PunBB = fast and light?
Yes, seeing the extensions listed down there looks amateurish. Who wants to see that? Why would any user care?
Yeah, I've seen later... But, how can i use the patch (1.2.15 -> 1.2.17)? I'm not be able to apply it... Dante
Use http://winmerge.org (if you are a Windows user) to help you see what has changed between your installed version of Punbb and the newest version, and to then selectively make any changes you need. It's easier to use than hdiff.
Hmm. Is it time to bite the bullet and just un-fork?
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