Excessive Amount Of Spammers

[Jagsman]

Each and everday my site gets atleast 10 new members but they are all spammers. This isn't really a problem because we have the registration set to admin verified, but I am just wondering how all these people have got hold of my site!

Any ideas on how this could have happened?

J

[shortbus1662]

There is an alternative to the image verification on here that worked well for me.

I was getting 50 registrations per day and HALF of them were SPAMMERS.

Now I'm averaging just under 25 and the only spammers I get now are the manual signups. No more bots for sure.

[Jagsman]

Originally Posted by shortbus1662

There is an alternative to the image verification on here that worked well for me.

I was getting 50 registrations per day and HALF of them were SPAMMERS.

Now I'm averaging just under 25 and the only spammers I get now are the manual signups. No more bots for sure.

Can you tell me what the alternative thing is?

Cheers

J

[Lynne]

They probably get there because of a search engine.

We mod all first posts, so that makes sure that most spam never actually gets onto the site. About three weeks ago, we started writing down the IP for the spammers and if a spammer comes again from the same IP, I do a quick check to make sure we don't have any legitimate users using the IP and if not, I IP ban them in our htaccess file. That has cut down tremendously on the amount of spam we get.

[Shazz]

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Heres one example to try and prevent it
There are a few more