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Please help with spam accounts
I'm getting a lot of spam accounts up to 30 a day. I have been deleting these and I recently turned off new members so no one could join. I left it for over 2 weeks and I just turned it back on and had 11 new members within 15 minutes all fake, spam accounts.
Is there any way to help control or stop these ? |
I normally have two pretty effective methods to stop spammers.
#1. reCAPTCHA. Go to http://www.google.com/recaptcha and register to get a Public and Private key. Then, in a new tab/window, open up your Forum's Admin Control Panel and go to vBulletin Options -> Human Verification Manager. Select the 'reCAPTCHA' button and hit save. After doing so, the page will refresh, and you'll see the reCAPTCHA options. Paste the corresponding public/private keys into the fields then select the color of the reCAPTCHA. Then, you're all done. ONLY DO THIS STEP IF YOUR FORUM USES HTTPS: However, if you use https:// for your Forums, you'll need to do some template editing. Under the Human Verification Template group, you'll see the template called 'humanverify_recaptcha'. Replace the contents of it (shown below): HTML Code:
<fieldset class="fieldset"> HTML Code:
<fieldset class="fieldset"> #2. An extra registration question effectively stops most bots. I followed THIS GUIDE (which is very clear and useful) on how to implement an extra registration question. Regards, Mark |
<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=289463" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=289463</a>
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Thank you
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i found Question/Answer to be more efficient then cCaptcha
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I added the question/answer and it stopped for about 4 hours but they are back again, might have to try the cCaptcha
--------------- Added [DATE]1358294687[/DATE] at [TIME]1358294687[/TIME] --------------- People are getting the question wrong and still getting through. |
How do you actually get vBulletin to use reCaptcha over SSL?
I found in the styles how it's checking for "recaptcha_ssl", but that doesn't appear to be a configuration parameter... Do I have to set a custom variable in each style to enable that? |
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Erm SSL is not obsolete... however I know how you meant that so just a :p for you lol.
Try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=276547 As for SSL in vbulletin it should be a simple matter of setting the BBURL to https://yoursiteurl.com/forum etc and that's it, re-captcha should work fine I was just on a https vbulletin 4 forum and no changes were required so not sure why you're having troubles. Edit: Although to be fair on that forum I do not believe they use re-captcha so editing may or may not be required, if someone has more insight on this please share as I have not looked into it in-depth at all. |
The trouble looks to be that since we have offloaded SSL to a load-balancer vBulletin does not identify that it's running under SSL - even with bburl set with HTTPS.
I ended up updated the recaptch plugin to always set true for 'recaptcha_ssl' and things are working now. |
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