Spam prevention, urgent help needed!

[Akhi]

Okay, so I'm using recaptcha, requiring new members to activate their membership through e-mail and I'm still receiving spam! I just banned 50 members and over 200 posts today that contained spam links like viagra, and other bad content that spammers put. I have a huge headache and I have no idea how to prevent this spam. Is there a simple way to ban new members from posting links? Any solution? Please post here and help me out! THANKS!

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another person just spammed.. AAAAHHH! some people have no life!

[Ronald0]

AdminCP>Vbulletin Options> User Registration

Make it so they have to verrify their email.

[HMBeaty]

Originally Posted by Ronald0

Make it so they have to verrify their email.

Originally Posted by Akhi

requiring new members to activate their membership through e-mail

Have you tried the human verification "Question and Answer"?

[Ronald0]

Ohhh my bad i missed that part, install the click picture module.

AKA Captcha Image Verification.

[ranz]

I'm finding vbulletin has some excellent antispam mechanisms inbuilt and are proving quite effective.

We use the Akismet Anti-Spam key and find it really sucessful. This is under Spam Management in Vbulletin Options in the AdminCP.

The Anti-Spam API key is used to enable the scanning service for user generated data. The data will sent to the specified service for identification.

If the data is identified as spam, it will be marked for moderation to allow for verification by moderators. You should give your moderators the 'Can Moderate' permission to allow for this.

When a user gets past our registration (I'll explain why below), and they put a spammy post up - Akismet has always flagged it as spam and put it into the mod queue - so no members see it on the public board.

Unfortunately you cannot get passed human assisted bot registrations. This is the same method that one of your legitimate users use to register an account on your forum. So this is why Akismet is an affective second base tool to combat spam.

There are plenty of topics about spam on this forum - so I suggest you read the articles which are "best practices" for preventing spam on your site.

ETA:

This is also an excellent mod to prevent unwanted user registrations (vMail - Email confirmation before registration):

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201466