We seen a large increase in the last 2-3 weeks, mostly spammers from Vietnam. For the first 1.5 years we had spam-o-matic installed, there were about 500 blocked registrations. In the last 3 weeks, that increased to almost 4000.

http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/v...ic.php?id=4954

Ah, thanks for the info djbaxter :)

I have seen quite a large number of these messages in the logs but seems to work better now.

Thanks for the update. I could only imagine what would happen without spam-o-matic installed. Best installed mod on our site. Thanks for all your efforts. :up:

I'm getting hammered daily with dozens of spam registered with .vn emails and vn IP addresses. This is odd because I get no forum spam or other registration spam except VN which starts about 2-3 weeks ago.

It came to a point where I had to block all VN IP addresses globally at my firewall, now they're using some proxy IPs instead.

They register with scrambled names like "hkjkld16sd" and put other scrambled words in every profile field like "ksjcskcjk".

I also have registrations moderated first.

These are bots.

Install this add-on: Spammers suck!

I am not sure if anyone else has had this issue (and we aren't 100% sure that it is this mod), but we think the auto-moderation option was crashing IE9 for a few of our users, or slowing down posting/editing times considerably.

I've disabled that option and am waiting to hear back; if we get confirmation that things are working as expected, I'll report back on the off-chance that it is this mod and it might help someone else!

Thanks for sharing... Today I had more than 1500 new spam threads opened, and I had to go for a rollback. ;)

I installed this plugin: hope it works!
Thanks for sharing!

I have had this installed for some time now and so far :
Spam-O-Matic Statistics
4985 Spammers Denied Registration
20 Spammers Permanently Banned
20 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
29 Spammers submitted to Akismet
194 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

Works like a charm :D

hi guys whenever someone signs up to my site they get this

"Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/register.php(338) : eval()'d code on line 10

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/worldofg/public_html/forums/register.php(338) : eval()'d code on line 10"

what do i do its just started after i put spamomatic

please help asap