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Spam profiles created and traffic sent to them

03-30-2009, 04:51 PM

phreak79

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Spam profiles created and traffic sent to them

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?

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