I am getting hit right now. 2 more registering. This has to be human controlled, or they have found a way around all registration security.

Getting hit by spambots as well for the first time since I switched to vbulletin over a year back, spambots advertising porn. One characteristic I have found in every one of them is that all say "Man" under the biography section and have ip address from all over the world with majority of the email addresses belonging to gmail.

Managed to slow them down by modifying the usual no spam questions with new one.

I am getting spam all of a sudden on my two vBulletin forums, started about 2 hours ago.

Same with me. They all say "Man" in the biography box, are spamming porn, and the IP's are from all over the world.

I'm looking at my logs and this spambot never even calls the captcha image, someone has found a flaw in the registration process that lets it bypass this step.

No, they decode the captcha images in a matter of seconds

I posted the fix for this a few pages back, you're wasting your time with email verification and captcha

someone check the spammers user profile in the admincp, see if they are selecting GMT-12 as the time zone, if so the mod i posted earlier will stop them cold

Here are the logs, you can see no image.php so the bot never even looked at the captcha.

oh well it's cutting off part of the logs. The first two lines call a parameter s with two different long hexadecimal strings.

:mad:I shut off registrations, 30 in about 16 hours:mad:

This needs to be reported to Jelsoft ASAP. Its rediculous and needs to be fixed like yesterday!

I have over 7 trying to register & other "guest" trying to start threads or events:mad: