[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by JeffreySmith

I had the same problem a few weeks ago. 4 days after it started happening, my host (hostgator) shut down my account for "phishing complaints". They scanned the site, found the files they were using, looked like:

public_html/gsarcade/avatars/a5d28f71da.gif: HG-PHPSHELL.Encoded.Fragment.AA.UNOFFICIAL

and removed them. Since then it's been smooth sailing. So do whatever you have to do to prevent them from registering.

The problem is that quite a few countries are a safe haven for spammers and porn merchants, say for example your site is based in the uk or usa, do you really expect an influx of new members people from a spam prone country giving your site great input??

i doubt it, you can ban the emails and also block the whole country IP either in your admin cp or even if your clever from your cpanel if you have that with your hosting.

To find an entire country IP block try a site like http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ you can chose whole countries to ban and hopefully the problem with stop.

Don't forget to search the Mod forum for the latest Spam hacks and install them as well, every little helps, as they say.

It wouldn't be fair to put all the blame on Russia, as there are some decent VBulletin sites in the former CCCP, but this will suprise you

According to Spamhaus, a leading authority on making the internet safer, the country with the worst record for spammers is in fact take a look for yourself http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso

came as a bit of a shock to me also :erm:

Anyway, you can also report these spammers, don't forget, take a look at the worlds 10 most prolific spammers http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso

Take care