I am in the need to this for vb4 - it works so so good on my 3.8.x forum and now the spammers are hitting the vb4 site I have.
Any chance you will make this vb4 compliant calorie?

I just wanted to take a moment and appreciate Calorie once again for this excellent hack.

I truly believe this hack is the main reason, why I never ever had problems with spambots. Our sites have over 50k visits/day and all the spambots are caught even before trying to register.

Since I installed this, there were some new email domains that have acted spammy, so I did the simple thing of adding them to spamlist files and they're history.

Incidentally, is there a site which has updates on spammy email domains? I'm assuming calorie used such a site when writing this perfect hack.

Thanks.

Probably should try http://www.stopforumspam.com/

hi guys i realise this thread is basically a zombie thread now, but i have uninstaleld this plugin and removed its files from my forum and ftp because since upgrading to vb4 its been sending me thousands of emails that it cant read the list but is still doing this even though i have uninstalled it anybody know what to do ?

For me, the easiest solution to combat spam bots from registering is just to use a question in the registration that the bot needs to get correct in order to register.

Simple example, "what is the colour of milk?". I ask a slightly harder question, but it has been 100% effective so far, so no need for image verification or anything else!

Good enough that I do not need any kind of human verification or questions and answers for anything in relation to registered members, only for those attempting to register.