The most obvious problem is with the structure - if you check the thread above it shows how to check and correct if it's not right - if all else fails I can check your forum and see if I can figure it out from that.

The only real reasons for the images not showing are GD libraries aren't installed and the /verification directory isn't in the correct place.

Let me know and we can go from there.

Cheers

Jason

ok ... the reason for the 2 different images not showing on here .. (ie the one with red x and one just with writing) is by the looks of it depenedant on whether firefox or explorer is used ..... explorer shows the crosses, and firefox doesnt..

Anyways, checked the gd in the php.ini and is same as your example .... also right clicked on red cross and clicked properties, and it does show the correct path to show.php so guessing it has to be something there... Is a windows server dunno if that makes a difference.... Any other ideas?

I was using vB 3.6.0 and it worked fine. I just upgraded to 3.6.4 and it doesn't work. It just goes to the rules page when you click Register.

Same here. I got the images once, but now they don't reappear. I cleared my cookies and it worked again.

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to get around the image verification page, all you have to do is go to register, click back when on the image verification page, then then go to re-register, and you don't get the verification page again :/

Thanks steadicamop,

I implemented this solution and did not receive any spam until today. so that was about 4 or 5 days without spam when we were getting loads. So it did work but now they are getting through again.

How is that possible ? Im no techie but these people who make these bots need to get decent jobs because they must be a rather intelligent bunch.

It is likely they are just getting lucky with "clicks" they are finding the right combination, plus they may also know about this thread and have combatted how it works - I'm going to try and get on to the strike system to see if it's possible to make it more secure.

I'm PM'ing people with problems to try and help solve these issues.

Cheers

Jason

Thanks.

Im wondering if making the number of images displayed change an extra layer of security or perhaps it makes no difference to how the bots work. So like sometimes its 5 images.

But regardless of the fact they have made it through now , it has 100% cut down on the number we were getting and the latest was not porn. :)

If you'd like to use more than 5 I can knock up a quick hack to change this - it's something I'm working into version 2 as well, an option to select how many images you can show.

Guys don't you see, the bots arnt guessing the right image, its humans signing up and then passing the details onto the computer bots who do all the posting work.

There is nothing you can do about that other than delete their posts.

This is no defense against anything programmed to defeat it. All it would have to do is keep on clicking image #1 until it happened to be right. So basically this only works for things that aren't programmed to defeat it, and given that, you may as well just add an extra clickthrough page to confuse the bot just as effectively but with less inconvenience to human registrants and web admins alike.