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As the Matter of FACT, KeyCAPTCHA STOPS 100% of SPAM BOTS, because SPAM BOTS Can't Solve the PUZZLES. Is 100% Impossible to STOP SPAMMERS (Persons) From Registering, (NO SYSTEM CAN Simply Because Humans Find Ways to Try and Joke Any Registration System), but You Can Implemment and Configure Other Systems to Reduce That From Happening: 1. KEYCAPTCHA (Stops 100% of SPAM BOTS), So USE IT. 2. Create and Set "User Profile Fields", and Force Users to Write Answers in Them, so that They Have to Write Coherent Answers, (SPAMMERS, TROLLS, and LEECHERS Will Provide Wrong Answers and those You'll BAN For doing that because those are SPAMMERS). 3. Use the "COPPA Registration System", so that No Person Can Write ANY Birth Date, and Also to NOT Accept Registrations Under 13 Years Old. 4. Set To YES the "Moderate New Members" Option on the "User Registration Options", so that You Can Review the Answers that Users Make to the "User Profile Fields" Before Accepting their Accounts. Give Yourself the Opportunity to BAN TROLLS and SPAMMERS that Write TRASH on those Fields, they for Sure Will Be SPAMMERS. 5. Set "Follow Forum Moderation Rules If no, posts are always placed into moderation queue" on "Post / Thread Permissions" as "NO", for Usergroups Not Approved ("Not Activated" and "Pending Approval"), so that Every message They Post is Moderated, and that Way NO SPAM from HUMAN SPAMMERS or TROLLS is Viewed (can be Posted but NO ONE WILL SEE IT), and that way if they Post SPAM You BAN THEM and Delete their TRASH Posts. NEVER Allow those Usergroups to Create New Threads. 6. Use Also an Additional System as "vMail - Verify Mail before registration", so that No User Can Register Without Validating His/Her Contact E-mail Address. 7. Use Also another Additional System as "NoSpam! for vBulletin 3.7", so that Users Have to Answer a Validation Question (like a Mathematical Question or whatever related to Your Web Site), so that No User Can Register Without Knowing the Answer to that Question. 8. There are other thing More to Tell, but with the Previous Ones You'll STOP SPAMMERS, TROLLS, and LEECHERS, so much, that You'll Reduce their Registrations and Keep Them Under Control. Also Many Users Will be Annoyed by that, but You Have to Choose if You Want QUALITY Users Registering or Just QUANTITY (The Quantity don't Participate, they're Just LEECHERS). I 100% Recommend KEYCAPTCHA, Because is a Beautiful AntiSPAM-BOT System, and Also Provides a PUZZLE System that Only Humans Can Solve. Thank You Very Much KEYCAPTCHA. :up::up::up: My Best Regards. :) |
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according to our verification: 1) all registration on your site were created by humans, no bot has passed, more correctly to say - was used to pass, KeyCAPTCHA for registrations 2) Our stats shows that your site had 169 successful KeyCAPTCHA passing (and I believe that "hundreds" starts somewhere after 200) 3) Programmaticlly assisted spam could appear because you do not have verification by KeyCAPTCHA for already registered users. So, it is sufficient for bot operator to register manually and continue spamming with a bot. vBulletin has functionality requiring to pass captcha for users having less than 10 posts |
Wahst's with all the aggressive CAPS and Random Capitalized Words?
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[quotre]4. Set To YES the "Moderate New Members" Option on the "User Registration Options", so that You Can Review the Answers that Users Make to the "User Profile Fields" Before Accepting their Accounts. Give Yourself the Opportunity to BAN TROLLS and SPAMMERS that Write TRASH on those Fields, they for Sure Will Be SPAMMERS. 5. Set "Follow Forum Moderation Rules If no, posts are always placed into moderation queue" on "Post / Thread Permissions" as "NO", for Usergroups Not Approved ("Not Activated" and "Pending Approval"), so that Every message They Post is Moderated, and that Way NO SPAM from HUMAN SPAMMERS or TROLLS is Viewed (can be Posted but NO ONE WILL SEE IT), and that way if they Post SPAM You BAN THEM and Delete their TRASH Posts. NEVER Allow those Usergroups to Create New Threads.[/quote] So your suggestion is to, instead of spending ages deleting spam posts, instead spend ages verifying member posts individually? Quote:
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I am looking forward that you resolve it ASAP. KeyCAPTCHA on registration ONLY cannot help against a manual registration by spam bot operator and continuation of spamming by bot. You should have switched on the built-in in vBulletin captcha functionality for posting by users with less than 20 (I wrote previously 10) posts. KeyCAPTCHA protects already 10,000+ websites and we monitor in real time bot activities. We would have immediately reacted to it, have we noticed any breach by a bot. Some of the websites protected by KeyCAPTCHA have hundred thousands visitors a day and are very attractive for spammers but we had no such incidents yet. |
I Implemented Today the Human Verification On Usergroups "Not Activated", "Pending Approval", and Also "New Approved Members", Following Your Instructions and Recommendations, and You're Right a SPAM Operators Can Create Accounts, Pass the Registration and Anti-Spammer Checkings, and then Configure a SPAM Bot to Access the Accounts and Post Annoying SPAM Messages on the Forums.
Also can be Used the Mod "Throttle Posts/Threads (restrict number of posts/threads by usergroup/forum by time)", to Control the Number of Posts in a Period of Time the Usergroups Can Post (Specially New Approved Members); if a Spammer Registers and Passes the Posting Human Verifications, at least won't be Able to Post more than "X" Messages in a Period of Time of "Y" Minutes. I Like a Lot the KEYCAPTCHA Feature that, if the PUZZLE is Not Well Solved and the User tries to Press the "Post" or "Register" or "Send Message" Button, the KEYCAPTCHA System Won't Allow to Pass to the Next Page (to Send the Form), so the User Won't Have to Press the Back Button, and a New Puzzle Will be Displayed to be Solved and Only then Pass to the Next Page/Step. Great Features and Very Effective. :up: My Best Regards To All the KEYCAPTCHA Team, Thank You Very Much For Your Efforts To Help Us Control Spammers. :up::up::up: :) |
thank you :)
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I have installed it as you show on your site but it doesn't even work.
Edited by me....... I have registered on your site as xfilesbsw******* you know the rest. Followed all instructions and it never even works, look http://uGTeam.oRg register and see for yourself. My Rebuttal Well i would like to apologize to everyone at KeyCAPTCHA, I am soory for saying it was the worst mod, because the reason it didn't work was my fault. So i would like to say that after the support team at KeyCAPTCHA fixed up my stupid mistake it's all working properly now and i find their support to very fast and friendly and KeyCAPTCHA to be absolutly AWESOME, it really is a fantastic way to keep spam - bots off my site. Give it a go it's free and it's awesome you got nothing to loose,................Except SPAM-BOTS. Thank you Installed and Nominated for MOTM |
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1. You Have to Set "KeyCAPTCHA" on the "Options" > "Human Verification", and Save that Setting. 2. It replaces the Image Verification Code so if Image Verification Works on Your Web Site KEYCAPTCHA Should Work Too because it Replaces the Code of the Image Verification on all the Places were it Works. 3. Also on "Options" > "KeyCAPTCHA Settings", You Should Write the "Private key" and the "KeyCAPTCHA code", and Save those Settings. (On the KeyCaptcha Web Site You Should Set the Code to Work on "vBulletin" Board). 4. The KeyCAPTCHA Team are Really Nice and Polite People (Read all their Replies), so Ask Them Nicely For Help (and Create a Ticket on their Web Site), and They'll For Sure Assist You and Help You To Solve the Reason Why the Code isn't Displaying in Your Web Site. But Ask Them Nicely, KEYCAPTCHA is a Very Good Product and Offer a Great and Useful Service. 5. The KeyCAPTCHA Team Will Help You With The Rest, They're The Experts. My Best Regards. :) |
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we replied to your ticket. Please check your Email box (if it is not in Incoming folder, please, look into Spam folder of your Email box) muratcan25, inciarco, we appreciate your feedback. inciarco, thanks for helping us when we are having a delay in responce since most posts appear when we locally have deep night time. |
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Well i would like to apologize to everyone at KeyCAPTCHA, I am soory for saying it was the worst mod, because the reason it didn't work was my fault. So i would like to say that after the support team at KeyCAPTCHA fixed up my stupid mistake it's all working properly now and i find their support to very fast and friendly and KeyCAPTCHA to be absolutly AWESOME, it really is a fantastic way to keep spam - bots off my site. Give it a go it's free and it's awesome you got nothing to loose,................Except SPAM-BOTS. Thank you Installed and Nominated for MOTM |
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sorry, I'm really afraid to distort (misspell or mispronounce) your name, so I avoided it. This is quite unexpected for us and we have to remind here that it is the same KeyCAPTCHA plugin as for vBulletin 4.x backward compatible with previous vBulletin versions and where it has a little bit more Stars, Downloads and Installs marked by our users. In order to avoid splitting the MOTM votes, please vote for that (the same) MOD there. |
keycaptcha.com has been down for some time now... what's going on?
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We've been getting hit hard by spammers the last couple of weeks - dozens of registrations with signature spams per day. I installed KeyCAPTCHA in the hopes that it'd help - well, it didn't in the slightest. We've had 4 spammer signups in a few hours since installing it. It seems to be the same spammer group as before installing KeyCAPTCHA. I simply can't believe that all this spam is manual.
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"4 signups in a few hours" is not an indication of automated registrations. Hundreds and thousands would have been. There are no bots without human operators (or human spammers). Those (without human participation or involvement) are called by viruses (but not bots). KeyCAPTCHA uses geo-cluster of server in 24*7*365 DDOS-resilient centers in different countries and using multiple IP-ddresses. In rare cases of one of such dtacenter is down, our service is redirected to another server in another country. In this case there can be a few dozens seconds delay in KeyCAPTCHA service. Anyway, I cannot understand why you are getting registrations at all (even manual ones) when KeyCAPTCHA service is down. There is something wrong with configuration of your website or it could have been compromised even before KeyCAPTCHA install. If you believe that there are issues with keycaptcha anti-spam protection (or configuration) on your site, please open support ticket from under logged into keycaptcha.com user. We can neither identify nor resolve issues by reading forum posts (even less from ones without even indication of any concrete details) Update: We checked. There were some problems on keycaptcha.com webiste due to a maintenance in a datacenter during 1 hour but antispam keycaptcha service worked stable without downtimes due to geo-cluster used. Open a ticket indicating your (IP-address or website) and the period of time when the issue occured and we shall send you our screenshots of how our captchas were passed and other data to analyze your incident (being spammed). |
The service itself worked while keycaptcha.com was down, I checked, so that wasn't the issue. My point was simply that installing KeyCAPTCHA didn't seem to make much difference as far as I could see, though granted I've been using it for less than a day now. Obviously I intend to leave it up for at least a couple of weeks to see how it performs.
It would be more than a little odd if we had manual signups BEFORE installing KeyCAPTCHA as well as after. Since before installing it, the spammers could easily have used Xrumer or various other spamming tools at their disposal without needing to do it manually. |
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XRummer, and its updates, are expensive. It cannot be "easily" used if someone has not bought it for quite a good money. There is no XRummer or any other good professional spam bot in open public domain or free of charge. KeyCAPTCHA is not passable by bots We have 10,000+ websites protected by KeyCAPTCHA and most of feedbacks telling that that had tried many tools before finding KeyCAPTCHA that stopped spam bots If you are interested in concrete and constructive resolution of your issue, open support ticket with concrete details of your case. There is no point in generic philosophic debates and guessing game about your concrete case |
What resolution? By your account, it's impossible for bots to pass KeyCAPTCHA ergo any spam that we get must be manual. End of story.
Well, great... while I'm sure that KeyCAPTCHA is helpful if any forum is actually targeted by large bot attacks, it doesn't seem to deter manual spammers. |
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Read in this Mod's Topic my Replies, and Follow the Recommended Settings and Additional Mods to Stop Spammers (Humans and Bots). I Share a Reply I Made Regarding this Issue on vbulletin.com, on the Topic "Best Anti Spamm? Need this asap. Adult Spammers!", maybe it might Help in Your Case and other Cases to Stop Spammers: Quote:
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- I Can Add to the Previous Recommendations also that You Can Set a "Custom Login Page" as Spam Bots and Human Spammers Usually Look and Should Configure the Login Process to the Default Fields Located on ALL the Pages of the vBulletin Board. (The Login Page can be Easily Renamed if needed to). Maybe that Can Help, but the Best Way is to Prevent Spammers From Registering and Also From Posting Unmoderated Posts, at least while the Admin can Check that is a Good and Useful Forumer and Not a Spammer/Troll/Leecher.
I Also Saw on "Talk Jesus | Christian Forums" that they Use a Drop Down Menu for Login, (I can't Precise how Effective that can be but I Think it Should be). If you check on their Site they are VERY Strict with the People that Registers, and they Use the "vmail" Mod (mentioned in my previous posts) Not to Allow Any Registration that Can't Confirm the Verification Code (Human Registrations Only). According to the Methods that You Choose for Registration, Moderation, and Control of Your Boards, will be the Difference Between QUALITY and Quantity. I Liked a Lot what Chad, the TalkJesus Admin wrote on the Topic "Forum Etiquette", and that Explains Very Well the Difference Between those 2 Kind of Persons (in Real Life and in this Virtual Life provided by Internet and Communities like vBulletin Forum Ones). My Best Regards. :) |
Can NoSpam! be used alongside KeyCAPTCHA?
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You'll Have to Try them and Post Your Experiences (The List of Things I Mentioned are Some of the Ones I Use). Of Course, as All Mod's Creators Recommend on their Mods, Always Backup Your Forum's Database Before Installing Any Mod, with a Software such as "MySQLDumper", or the One You Use that Allows You to Restore a Backup Copy of the Database. Also is Recommended to Have a Test Forum were You Can Install and Test Your Mods, and when You Confirm that Everything Works Ok then Backup the Main vBulletin Forum Board, and Install and Configure the New Mods in it. My Best Regards. :) |
Thanks for the info, I guess I'll add NoSpam! as well to see if it'll help.
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I Forgot to Mentione another Important Mod, which is the "Multiple Account Detection & Prevention", which can Help You Detect a Spammer that Try to Create Multiple Accounts From a Same Computer and/or from a Same IP, and Also Try to Login with those Accounts From a Same Computer and/or from a Same IP. The Same as Before, Test the Mods in Your Test Forum and also Make Backups of Your Real Forum Database before Installing the Mods. My Best Regards. :) |
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Today we uploaded the new updated plugin for 3.7-4.x versions of vBulletin where these your requests were satisfied. Well, since it is the same plugin as one for vBulletin 4.x backward compatible with previous versions please see more details of changes there |
Can you post instructions on how to upgrade?
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In vBulletin Control Panel --> "Plugins & Products" --> "Manage Products" --> from the drop-down list choose "Uninstall" --> Press the link "Go" against KeyCAPTCHA 2) install the new version of plug-in following instructions on keycaptcha.com site You should have done it before 3) Add "Upgrade" into descriptions of new installed plug-in |
I've just uninstalled this, and have run into a problem. Attempts to register now result in:
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Please send us the email address (which you used for registration at https://www.keycaptcha.com) to http://hidemail.at/xihp2h Having your email address we will be able to help you. Best regards, KeyCAPTCHA Team |
Join us and make sure that our service blocks all annoying spam-bots.
More than 13 000 webmasters have chosen our service. And KeyCAPTCHA successfully solved all their issues associated with spam. That is why some of our customers have protected all their websites by KeyCAPTCHA. And now KeyCAPTCHA protects more than 15 000 websites. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact our support team. We will do our best to help you. Best regards, KeyCAPTCHA Team |
Great news:
Now we pay for your protection. Read more information at https://www.keycaptcha.com/ By now we don't have a lot of advertisers. But our managers are working hard to find them. And we are sure that number of advertisers will grow every day. The earlier you install KeyCAPTCHA, the earlier we will find advertisers for your websites. Don't forget that at the same time you will have the best spam protection. Best regards, KeyCAPTCHA Team |
I'm curious how this plugin works for those attempting to register from a mobile device. Nearly 40% of my users visit my forum from their iPhone which does not support flash, nor does a touch interface allow for drag and drop.
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We have hundreds of thousands solved CAPTCHAs from these devices in our logs. KeyCAPTCHA has two modes: HTM5 and Flash. The mode of work is detected automatically. |
Dear Visitors,
We have added Romanian and Hungarian translations to KeyCAPTCHA. Best regards, KeyCAPTCHA Team |
Dear Visitors,
We have added Danish translation to KeyCAPTCHA. |
Dear Visitors,
We have added Chinese translation to KeyCAPTCHA |
Installing. This looks really good.
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KeyCAPTCHA plugin for vBulletin has been updated.
Now installation became easier - you need copy just your KeyCAPTCHA private key during the installation. |
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