I wholeheartedly agree with you. Spam bots are becoming an increasing problem and we need a very advanced solution for this. There are various useful hacks to counter bots, but it is not possible to combine several of them. Especially those hacks that deal with the registration. It would be nice to have one integration for all of them.

Would this hack work with:
Enhanced Image Captcha - Stop bots from signing up!
vMail - Verify Mail before registration.

How is this supposed to work? I have it installed and enabled, but WOL still shows googlebot, yahoo slurp still actively trying to register. Though they don't end up registering, I'm not getting any notifications or anything.

lol those aren't the bots you need to worry about ;)

in fact, you WANT those bots on your site. :)

Oh, I don't want to get rid of them, I want them to stop trying to register.

Thank you very much for this. I will install ASAP on 3.7.3 and report the results.

Bots have been a serious issue these past 3 months, and I thank you for the time you have spent to improve the vB experience for the whole community.

**INSTALLED**

good to see a 3.7 mod by ya noppid :)

Great stuff Marked as Installed

Thanks

disallow them from register.php, by listing this in your robots.txt

Here's what I have listed in my robots.txt file:
Disallow: /calendar.php
Disallow: /editpost.php
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /misc.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /printthread.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /admincp/
Disallow: /modcp/
Disallow: /online.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /poll.php
Disallow: /attachment.php
Disallow: /avatar.php
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /profile.php

User-agent: Custo
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 10

It is possible to not get the emails? I currently get about 40 a day from the ISbot mod from Calorie...and it kills me deleting them from my phone since the email system is linked.

Same for me--phone deletion and all lmao.