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Lynne · #6 12-30-2007, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by fringehead

check out the isbot mod. I installed it last week and it has prevented about 40 bots from signing up!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=isbot

I find you also should add their email address to the ban list for the ones that make it through. It's the best solution I have found for bots (Isbot)

Sean

I second this recommendation for the isbot mod. But, if you have a busy forum, I recommend you read the thread notes and learn to take out the email confirmation. I was getting about 30 emails a day after installing this hack, but boy did it cut down on the site spam! (Although we continue to moderate first posts, but before we had about 20 spam posts to moderate a day and now we only get a handful a week.)

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