I'm using this and the reCaptcha, and have had no spambots since. I'm running 3.8, and it seems to work fine.

If your on 3.8 then you should at least be using the 3.7 version of NoSpam!.

For some reason I've tested both and it won't allow anyone to finish the registration process. I'm now using the built in version and so far no spam.

When you had NoSpam! installed, did you have the built in questions disabled?

Yes I did? Could it be case sensitive?

I don't think it's case sensitive, but you did have to include variations of words if you wanted those variations accepted. Plus you had to format them correctly in order for them to work.

This worked perfectly for months and as of a couple days ago they are getting through in waves. I think they're on to us... Time for an update.

Same happened to me - been great for months then last couple of days waves of spam accounts.

i assumed that the robots had got more clever and were able to understand simple questions like

2 + 2 =
and
Type XXXXX here

I initially just replaced the questions with ones very similar just different figures. Seemed to work for a couple of hours then they came again.

So I then replaced the questions with ones that didn't have the answer in them - like

how many fingers on one hand ....

what is the opposite of North ......

What is the talest mountain in the world .........

Since changing these all spam accounts have stopped. Dunno if its coincidence but I'm happy either way

Cheers, good to know.

Yes I seem to be getting waves os spam accounts alot the past couple of weeks, it would seem they have found a way around Nospam and Captcha

They've defeated NoSpam! and now, unfortunately, it's worthless in its present form. Captcha works fine and is effetive, but you must have true type fonts enabled.

thats not true... I have true type fonts enabled, and I have still been getting tons of bots registering our forum. They have gotten around NoSpam! and Captcha....

Installed on 3.6.11 and working

I have installed it and there is no questions are displaying in the registration page however i have posted the questions through admin panel...
I have installed in 3.7 and 3.8.1.
what should i do? Can anyone help me?

same here! :(

I get several spammers per day and this feature does nothing to slow them down. Any suggestions on a really good question and answer?

I've used simple math questions. e.g. What is 5+7?:12 or Please type "Boss302" into the following field.:Boss302

This is not working. Any suggestions? Also, most of my spammers register with the birthday of January 1, 1980

Hey USA - I wrote an article on managing registration spam in vbulletin that you might find interesting, including some benchmarking:
http://www.snipe.net/2008/08/managin...-in-vbulletin/

I really need a mod like this. Even with the Captcha I get an obnoxious among of spam and I was really hoping this would do the trick, but I've upgraded to 3.8, had a template written for it, and this doesn't appear to work with it. I installed it, did the set up, but it doesn't appear anywhere.

Thanks!

That's probably part of your problem. Math questions, or putting you answer into the question itself are easily bypassed by bots. You're giving the bot the answer. Questions need to be simple questions that a bot can't guess. Like "What color is the sky?" or (since you can use HTML in the questions) "What color is this picture?" Don't put the answer anywhere in your question or in your HTML and don't use math questions. Just use simple, first grade questions that don't have a lot of variable answers.

Please complete the word in the sentence > The Capital City of the United Kingdom is Lo????
Answer:ndon
Please complete the word in the sentence > Australian native animal:kang????
Answer:aroo

Awesome, works like a charm- Good work !

Is this working in 3.8.3 ?

3.8.3 has these abilities in the basic package.

It still doesn't defeat bots though like this hack used to.

I installed this mod when I was using 3.6. I went from 8 bots a day to 0 bots.

I removed this mod when I upgraded to 3.8 and could do this with 3.8's built-in features. I stayed at 0 bots. Works great. :)

There's a verification question in 3.8.3? :confused:

On the Human Verification Manager, it asks me if I wanted to use Image Verification, Question & Answer Verification, or reCAPTCHA Verification because I have that installed (though I no longer use it)

Human Verification Options is one of the first options on the sidebar of the admin panel, or it can be found in the vBulletin Options panel relatively close to the top of the list.

^ Thanks for that. Phew, now I can avoid wasting hours checking if they're bots or not....

Cheers. :up:

I just installed it... I hope it helps.

Love it..... will be installing SOON!!!

Hey,

I've added the registrar nospam code but the question won't show on the registration page. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

In your No Spam Settings under vBulletin Options; Make sure that 1. Enable No Spam!? is set to Yes. 2. Use NoSpam! for registrations? is set to Yes 3. Save

Does this work with 3.8.4 ?

You'd need the most recent version.

which version I can use with VB 4.0.1

Neither. There isn't one for 4.0.

the hack works with vbulletin 4.0.1, but the design is deformed and a error appears in the header

Hi,
We are having problems of Spams in Publishing suite.

I saw the downloads for 3.5 and 3.7 versions but not for our versions.

Is it possible to get it for our Publishing Suite - 4.0.5 and
VBulleting - 3.8.4 ???

How effective and reliable is this application ?
Your Help on this would be great.

Thank you for your support
Bish

Thanks.

INSTALLED. 3.6.8

Working flawlessly. ZERO spambots.