This has been a life saver. Haven't had to delete one new user since this was installed. The spammers were out of control!

Thank You!!!

Those March 28th 1983 accounts can now be a thing of the past . Thanks

Hmm, I've got a lot to do these days, but yes, I was working on that and was in fact very close to finishing it - I got it working perfectly on the Contact Us form and for guest posts, but the search was being annoying. I should start messing around with it again in my Christmas break.

How about adding a feature where a guest has x number of attempts to answer the question(s) and if it can't be answered within that limit it locks them out of the registration for x number of minutes. Now that would be awesome.

Well, such a thing would always be easy to bypass unless one went into some major IP-checking - you can lock people out of logging in because you can block logins for the account, but for registrations, there is no foolproof way of knowing whether two registration attempts are being performed by the same user; you can of course plant a cookie, but few things are easier than deleting cookies, and then all that would be left would be using some sort of careful tracking of the IPs of registration attempts, which I think would just be a major headache to code for very little benefit - especially if you have multiple questions, a script that attempts random letter combinations in hopes of getting the right answer by chance would just take way too long for such an awfully small benefit - spam registration at one forum - that they wouldn't bother making such a script and instead just let the bot turn to some other victim that doesn't have this hack installed. In the spam industry it's all about posting as many advertisements in as little time as possible in as cheap a way as possible. Making things very difficult for them, as this hack does, will simply mean they will turn somewhere else; they have absolutely no motivation to attack your forum rather than that neighbour forum that's much easier to attack, and as such they're going to attack the other one because it takes less time and thus maximizes the profits per day.

For short, I think your board is quite safe from spam even if the bots get an infinite number of attempts.

I just wanted to say, this is a brilliant idea for a mod. I used to not have much of a problem with spambots, but the last few months have been horrible...We'd average 1-3 spambots per day and sometimes as many as 5 or more. I hadn't installed any extra protection because from everything I had read, the spambots were even finding ways around these mods...but I've been following your mod here and it looked to be pretty foolproof, and so far, it is. I've been running it for a few days now and haven't had a single spambot register..Without this mod, I probably would have had 10 spambots if not more since then.

Great work and let's hope I'm not speaking too soon :)

Has anyone got this to install on 3.5.2? I haven't tried, but one of the adminstrators has, and followed the template change, but still gets lots of errors apparently.

Haha! Die you spamming Rusky!

Still no spammers since installation :D

@SkatieChick - I have this running under 3.5.4 which I would imagine to be minimally different to 3.5.2
Install the XML from this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=36
and then in the Register template, search for the line:
and add
immediately above it

Perhaps AntiAlais can add this to the install instructions?

Version 2.0 at last! The NoSpam! functionality has been added to guest searches, guest posts and guest "Contact Us" as well as the original registration. To upgrade, just download the new zip file and import the new product through the Admin CP with Allow Overwrite set to On.

An "official" 3.5.x version is coming as well as soon as I've gotten 3.5 to install on my test board and can mess with making the template edits automatic.

AWESOME! Anyway that you can get this to work on the Quick Register form as well?

Thanx - especially for the 3.5 version ;)

Excellent mod!

Jacquii.