It seems I have my own answer here.:cool:
The reason I found why the new registrations is not being banned is because I have the Spam Hack so I can make up my own question and answer. The ones that are not being banned must be spam bots and are unable to answer the question.

The one that can answer the question but caught by the RBL Checker is banning them.:eek:

Running 3.7.1 and am also getting two pms. Also have it set to move the person into a certain usergroup how ever it seems that is not happening.

Kylek I am not sure if the same thing is occuring with mine but I found that through trail and error if they are able to registered and then banned they will be banned.

If you are unsuccessful in registering then it will not ban as the are not a member yet.

Dave

Sorry, I'm not clear, is this hack compatible with VB 3.7?

As far as I can tell no not completely. It does part of the job but fails on the auto banning. I'm using it anyways on 3.7 as one more deterrent.

Any chance of this getting a proper port to 3.7?

Thanks, on that basis I've implemented it.

A couple of other questions. The introduction gives reasons for banning proxies, but does not make it clear whether this product implements a ban, or whether the author is recommending that something else should be used to block proxies. If the latter, is there a reliable, supported proxy blocker?

With RBL implemented, it seems to be blocking only a minority of spammers. Is there anything else that can be done?

I personally use a three tier approach that catches 99% of the attempts:

Registration Attempt -> Stop Forum Spam Check -> Proxy RBL Check
Post Attempt -> Akismet Check

For RBL I'm a little more aggressive on the IPCONFIG checks that the default setting:

• dnsbl.ahbl.org
• list.dsbl.org
• sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
• cbl.abuseat.org
• bl.spamcop.net
• dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net
• dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net
• dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net
• zen.spamhaus.org

works on 3.7.2 inc auto banning

however it makes a post twice when it catches an offender

Is there any way someone can make this script also check/block registrations from proxy IPs? Here are three big sites containing lists of proxy site IP addresses:
http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html (Page 1 through 5)
http://www.proxy.org/tor.shtml

Will pay a coder to make this available to everyone somehow.

Edit: Proxy.org has a blacklist of Proxy IPs that you can add to your .htaccess file here. Would still like to use the above IP addresses to be blocked by a script automatically - would be very useful if the script could auto-update itself as the sites do. The sites contain such a massive index of proxy IPs that are freshly updated it would really prevent problematic users.