• From: Melbourne, Australia
  • Registered: 2004-05-19
  • Posts: 220

Topic: Help, major spam problems!

Hi guys,

Our forums are currently being spammed extensively - almost 20-30 posts a day.  The spammers seem to be registering new addresses and posting unsavoury stuff.  Not just the regular viagra links and stuff, but rather graphic hardcore that is rather shocking.

I've already enabled the option for email validation on new registrations - what else can I do to make it harder for them?

I'm running punbb 1.2.19.

Thanks,
Julian

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  • sirena
  • sirena
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  • Registered: 2006-04-06
  • Posts: 473

Re: Help, major spam problems!

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 smile, try another of the many mods available if you search this site on 'spam' or do the same on punres.org.

  • From: Boston, USA
  • Registered: 2004-09-20
  • Posts: 27

Re: Help, major spam problems!

I had similar problems for a while.  I had hoped that PunBB might incorporate a CAPTCHA in the normal release, or something like it.  My somewhat drastic step has been to turn off automatic registrations and have everyone email me personally, then I set up the user's account myself.  I use the plugin "User management - v1.3".

James

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