vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Spam profiles created and traffic sent to them

phreak79 · #1 03-30-2009, 04:51 PM

Hi all,

The forum I run has had real problems with spam lately and I'm at my wits end. The problem seems to be spam members are signing up with spam links in their signature area. They then send a truck load of traffic to their spam profile pages.

According to the front page stats I have anywhere from 200-400 users on at once, and no way do I have that many users. It's bringing my forum down. I've added all of the ip's from stopforumspam to my htaccess and have done the same to the vBulletin spam control panel but neither seem to be working.

They also seem to be bypassing the spam protection upon sign up. I have new members answer a question, such as what is x letter on my logo image, so I don't know whether they are humans or clever bots but they are getting on.

Has anyone else had this problem?

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01027 seconds Memory Usage 1,755KB Queries Executed 11 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_box (1)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)post_thanks_postbit_info (1)postbit (1)postbit_onlinestatus (1)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showpost.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_postinfo_query fetch_postinfo fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showpost_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create postbit_factory showpost_post postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start showpost_complete
Messages: