Thanks.... that's the one I was principally worried about.... :up:

I've installed it automatically and it seems to be working well..... :)

Regards,
Badger

Installed, working great!

It's been running for a day now and I have a question ....

Has anyone else found that the amount of spammers registering and logging in has jumped dramatically after installing this, as compared to the standard (with graphics question) approach we were using, or is it just coincidence on our system?

Thanks... :)

Regards,
Badger

This is how the captcha check works.

I created a second plugin just for verification of the captcha code so instead of the original check which first checks if the code and hash exist in the DB then deletes them, this will check if it exists and then return valid or invalid.

So there is like no way a spammer or bot will really take advantage of the check it would be like brute forcing a hash... Which would be extremely hard because i think the has is like 32 characters or more.

so it runs exactly like the normal captcha so your increase in bot/spammer sign ups should not have anything to do with it. Unless they were manually registering and just liked the registration process :P.

Well explained Coders Shack :)

How can you max out the meter?
I only can get it to "Very Strong" :erm:

I kind of figured that as the code is very well done, but I thought I'd ask ... :)

I think we've coincidently attracted the ardor of a particular spammer who registers by hand and hasn't like the quickness with which his posts get tossed. I hope he gets bore in the next day or so, as it's a real pain in the rear to have to keep up with the banning process and blocking IP's etc.

Thanks for the feedback... :up:

Regards,
Badger

you need:
symbols
numbers
lower case letters
upper case letters
and a decent string length which sets or the previous 4.

also the meter cant get maxed 100% it gets to about 98% because when at 100% it wasn't working in other browsers. But i doubt anyone actually uses a 100% password lol.

looks like you need some kind of post captcha for members that signed up in the first X hours and have less than 5 posts. So the spammer would at least have to pass 5 captchas plus the registration or sum thing. Dunno how you can beat a manual spammer.

Any chance of making this 3.0.x compliant? I installed this back when it first came out and it seems that upgrading to the latest version on my 3.0.0 doesn't work fully.

Thanks

well you could try the manual edits, even though they may not be direct matches use your best judgment on replacements.