[BirdOPrey5]

There is no one perfect anti-spam mod... The main purpose of this mod was to help people who were having bots specifically target register.php.

Some people have found it effective in general spam prevention, some have not- it is up to you if the few minutes of installing and setting it up is worth it to you. Maybe it's only stopping 5% or 10% of spammers- what I do know is that there are at least *some* spam bots out there that are hard coded to look for register.php can can't continue if it doesn't find one.

Others may have always simply looked for a "register" link on the forum and in that case this does not help.

Tip:- For those claiming total ineffectiveness make sure you don't have a register.php file in your forum directory. Some people have upgraded their VB versions or re-uploaded a fresh copy of the VB files and of course if you do that register.php will come back if you don't rename it again. You'll have both the custom name and the original name on the server and the bots will find the original name and be able to use it. The original register.php must not exist after you rename it.