Ridiculous amount of spam

[danielc2384]

Every few minutes from the last 24 hours a new members joins with a different IP and posts up spam. I really don't know what to do :S

edit: Is it possible to moderate only new members posts?
Can I make it so after x posts they can post without going through the mod que?

[bulldog71169]

I added a new required registration field. this seems to reduce the bot spam by 99.99%

[jkcerda]

I added a new required registration field. this seems to reduce the bot spam by 99.99%

what did you do? I am getting flooded, reports are coming in form other boards that visit mine as well

[bulldog71169]

ACP >> user profilel fields >> add new field >> (choose type) >> fill in details and make required

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only problem, which I didnt have an issue with is all current users will be forced to fill in the required field once.

[danielc2384]

^ I just tried this. *fingers crossed*.

[gfxhelp.com]

This is what you may want
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=135094

It got rid of a ton of bots for me. It's simple and doesn't really have any negative side effects.

[SAReefer]

does that hack work?

[Morsolo]

This is what you may want
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=135094

It got rid of a ton of bots for me. It's simple and doesn't really have any negative side effects.

On the contrary, there are Modifications for FireFox that automatically fill in registration fields.
I've been blocked out of sites and forced to go through the process again manually a few times.

But I'm patient, my friend for example will just go "Screw it" and close the page, there you loose a Member.
While that hack might block 10 Bots for every 1 Member, there are still better alternatives.

As, I said in Chris11987's thread:
Have you tried switching your Image Verification over to the reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net/) system?
My site isn't what I'd call big, but it did decrease the amount of spam bots trying to get in when I started using it.

You could always try the NoSpam! (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183329) hack, it seems to be good. I can't give you a personal opinion however as I haven't needed it.

[LadyBeth]

We're getting flooded also. I'll go add another field!

[Andy]

I really don't know what to do

Use the Question & Answer Verification.

Admin CP -> Human Verification Manager -> Question & Answer Verification

[TJ3]

Same story here, some bots are on the attack, getting huge amount of registrations.

Looking into it now.

[kopoba11]

Guys, I did some research.

I found that spammers use this tool

http://www.zdnetasia.com/downloads/pc/swinfo/0,39043052,39001548r-39265381s,00.htm

It's free to try, at least we can learn the tool so we can defeat it.

Later

[jkcerda]

look at where some of these bots/spammers are

/register.php?do=addmember&do=addmember

Unknown Location
/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=2b90c8ef1d865163c38499d91db474e58b19166 6

[turbosatan]

regardless of the spam that is resulting from these what the underlying problem is that the Vbulletin Captcha has been broken and we need a fix.

Is there a way to enable two human verification options at once.

i would like to have captcha and then question and answer not just either.

[Jurg]

This is what I do.

Change the setting "Registered users" usergroup for "Follow Forum Moderation Rules" to No.

Create a new usergroup called "Verified users" based on the settings for Registered users, but change the moderation rules setting to Yes.

Set up a promotion so after one post (or however many you want) registered users get moved to the verified users group.

Using this method users do not get to post openly until they have had at least one post approved. It means you still have to wade through spam yourself, but your users shouldn't see it.

Hope this helps.

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What I also found was useful with this method is something that makes posts pending moderation more obvious to mods and admins. The following modification is great for this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=186326&highlight=notification

[turbosatan]

i left my site on question and answers fora few days and now that seems to be broken also as i am getting tons of registations per day.

more than normal that is.

Has anyojne flagged this as a bug with vbulletin ?

[Dismounted]

It is likely that someone has compiled a list of the questions you have and therefore, know the answer to any of your questions.

[turbosatan]

the spam seems to have abated a lot.

i think the issue was the new version of xrumerwhich came out and had a 14 dayfree trial with it.

as usual scammers wont spend a penny to make a pound and after the 14 days everythign seems back to normal.

is there any kind of centralised resource we canput together with a big list of different questions which can be cycled through?

i mean a list big enought to be more work than its worth to the spammers?