Stop Spammers?

[MikeHolohan]

Right now I have VB4.0 Gold and have my registration set to manual approval, any ideas about how to allow auto approval but stop the spammers from signing up?

Mike.

[radmoose]

I suggest installing pedigree's vBStopForumSpam mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=230921

Depending on your site, you might want to disable the username check however as that seems to get some false positives.

I have been using it on vB 3.x and now on 4.0.x and find it to be a great tool.

[MikeHolohan]

Thanks man, was looking at it but wasn't sure if it is any good, does this stop spammers or just flag them?

will install it and try it now...

[Wired1]

It stops them from registering. It's configurable.

[MikeHolohan]

Thanks, have it installed and have opened my forum again to auto approve... any other things I should know?