Pun stop bots question (Page 1 of 2)

Same problem here.   PubBB 1.4.

http://www.theprofessionalphotographyfo … gister.php

(if you need the right answer, email me)

ancy_stop_spam didn't seem to do ANYTHING on 1.4 -- no questions, no captchas, no nothing.  I was able to register, change my password, and post ... all without seeing a single 'human' challenge.

The only thing that seems to work with it is limiting the number of links in a post.  (and even that applies to ALL posts, not just the first ... unlike what it says)

Okay - so that's why it doesn't work to stop my test spam bots?  I guess that makes sense... if it's supposed to be 100% transparent.

... but "StopForumSpam" (assume this is "pun_stop_bots -- Stop Spam from bots ver 0.3.3?) doesn't work.
It asks questions when people try to post and I couldn't find a way to turn that off.
It asks questions when people try to register, but never accepts the 'right' answer and thus people cannot actually register when I have this extension enabled.

Oh, so StopFourmSpam is not an extension.   That makes way more sense.

So you are recommending to not use pun_stop_bots then?  (it appears to be broken)

Fancy Stop Spam doesn't seem to be working -- we are getting just as many spam registrations (if not more) than before.

Is there someplace we can go see this 'work'?

Please, if you can, send me 3-5 last spammers emails and ip-addresses?

You think its real humans spamers or bots?

Here is the link:
http://www.single123.com/forums/

I also posted a link on my post.

Just post a guest topic, you don't have to register.

Thanks.

Latest 3 is real spammers and detected fancy_stop_spam - at least 4 detected by version 1, and 3 and 4 detected by test version 1.1 (will be released soon). Why you think that 1 and 2 is spamers or bots?

I happen to know the 'hanryjack' is by a SEO company out of India. (I contacted the person their links advertised for)

You are right, I can't register with that email --- because that spammer (Shohel1) already exists on our system.

Is there a spam blocking solution that works for 1.4 for keeping out spam registrations?   Human test questions, captchas,  not allowing numbers in the email address or username, etc?