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Topic: What´s the best way to deal with spammers ?

Only online for a little over a week and I already got spammers in my board,

What´s the best way to avoid this without changing to much in the code, as I want to keep my forum as standard as possible.

Thanks

  • Registered: 2005-03-07
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Re: What´s the best way to deal with spammers ?

The following mod only requires changes to the register.php file so it will be easy to maintain through 1.2 updates I'd expect smile

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16076&p=1

Since installing the above mod on one of my boards there's been no spam registrations in over a week (previously getting 5+ a day).

I'd also suggest asking new members to verify their registration through email (found under Admin > Options) though I never found this to prevent spammers.

To stop spammers you're going to have to make some code changes unfortunately, the above mod is the easiest to maintain imo. You can see a demo of the mod on my registration page here. Spam question edited to suit the site smile

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Re: What´s the best way to deal with spammers ?

Thanks, I will try this, otherwise I may have to use another forum unfortunately.

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Re: What´s the best way to deal with spammers ?

Spammers are really a problem with PunBB, for a few days after upgrading to the latest version, I use the standard register.php and the spammers came back !!! I wonder how everyone deals with this ?

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Re: What´s the best way to deal with spammers ?

i ran an open board for a little while and started getting spammed.  viagra everywhere.  smile  i just whipped up a custom script to ask a question prior to registration.  stopped spam dead.  i really think that variation is useful in anti-spam methods.  do you know any php or have a friend who does?  roll your own!

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