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Originally Posted by BadgerDog

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.