The bot still has to deal with the hidden fields and if you make sure that you change the codes fairly often they will not get past.Changing the codes immediately you install is vital.

The ones getting through are not bots,they are humans with a crib sheet and instructions to copy paste info in to certain boxes.You can make life hard for them as many do not speak other languages,set some extra required profile fields in your registration and they are mostly stuck.

I use this mod and "no spam" and added extra fields, anyone not speaking english would have to guess the correct entry to make.

I see dozens of failed registrations on Paul M's "guest tracking" mod and have only seen one manual registration for a spammer in the last month.

Also set your registration to email verification( or even admin approval) ,checking usernames and email addresses against Google gives a good indication of someone spaming and I delete their registration before they get a chance to do anything.

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it if that is possible. ;)

Carey Crew's advice answers your question well I believe. Thanks Carey!

We went ahead and set new users to go into moderation in case they get through. That one I referred to earlier is the only one that has made it through, so I know this mod is a huge help :)

Thanks noppid. Have just installed this, and am looking forward to being spam free soon! :)

It's helped up through this. But ya still gotta clean your in box from notifications. :p

Good luck.

I installed this yesterday and for the first time in a week we didn't have any overnight registrations. So far so good.

Thanks for this!!!!

That's great news. We're getting hammered with bots too.

To be certain they don't get in, I've been changing my settings for hidden fields daily. That's not too hard. But I want to automate that too.

Helpful. Thanks.

Quite helpful.