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Miss Chatterbox · #1 10-23-2009, 09:02 AM

Well my forum has just appeared on google this morning and to celebrate the occasion my first spammer joined the forum! lol! Wasn't difficult to spot even for a novice like me with this email address: lol@naf.bee.pl

Anyway this has made me realize that I haven't really addressed the issue of security on my forum. So I was wondering if someone could help me by answering the following:

*What is the best way of securing your forum against spammers?
*Is there a list of notorious spamming IP addresses available so I can block them?
*What is the best security protection in general for a vBulletin forum? Is there some sort of security product you can upload?

I'm running 3.8.4 so not sure how that effects things?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

JonoE · #2 10-23-2009, 10:02 AM

When our new site went live we got spam. I change from using reCAPTCHA to Question & Answer Verification and not had one bit of spam after the change.

kNeeLy · #3 10-23-2009, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Chatterbox

Well my forum has just appeared on google this morning and to celebrate the occasion my first spammer joined the forum! lol! Wasn't difficult to spot even for a novice like me with this email address: lol@naf.bee.pl

Anyway this has made me realize that I haven't really addressed the issue of security on my forum. So I was wondering if someone could help me by answering the following:

*What is the best way of securing your forum against spammers?
*Is there a list of notorious spamming IP addresses available so I can block them?
*What is the best security protection in general for a vBulletin forum? Is there some sort of security product you can upload?

I'm running 3.8.4 so not sure how that effects things?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

make sure you offer a good question at the very beginning. Also, make a new profile question and reqiure it to be filled in at registration...(something to do with the forum).

Also...if you have any doubts run their IP addy and email at www.stopforumspam.com

Floris · #4 10-23-2009, 11:45 AM

I fixed a 3.5 forum last night with 16,000 spammers. The forum had 2 real posts.
yay.

Trip · #5 10-23-2009, 11:55 AM

The only way I was able to deal with the ongoing spam issue was to moderate new members. It's a pain for both admins and new members but it's the best way that I've found to work. I set the welcome pm to explain why and adjusted the permissions so they can access just about everything except being to post or reply to messages.

Mudcrutch · #6 10-23-2009, 12:15 PM

Human Verification Questions.

Very easy to set up (built into vb) and I have had 0 problems.

TNCclubman · #7 10-23-2009, 12:23 PM

Human Verification Questions.

Example:

Whats the opposite of hot?

(answer cold)

stops robot spam 100%

BigDog56 · #8 10-23-2009, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Floris

I fixed a 3.5 forum last night with 16,000 spammers. The forum had 2 real posts.
yay.

lol! Bet that was fun!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip

The only way I was able to deal with the ongoing spam issue was to moderate new members. It's a pain for both admins and new members but it's the best way that I've found to work. I set the welcome pm to explain why and adjusted the permissions so they can access just about everything except being to post or reply to messages.

That's what we do. We also use a modification that runs their ip against existing ip's, & runs their email and user name in google.

dtommy79 · #9 10-23-2009, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Chatterbox

Well my forum has just appeared on google this morning and to celebrate the occasion my first spammer joined the forum! lol! Wasn't difficult to spot even for a novice like me with this email address: lol@naf.bee.pl

Anyway this has made me realize that I haven't really addressed the issue of security on my forum. So I was wondering if someone could help me by answering the following:

*What is the best way of securing your forum against spammers?
*Is there a list of notorious spamming IP addresses available so I can block them?
*What is the best security protection in general for a vBulletin forum? Is there some sort of security product you can upload?

I'm running 3.8.4 so not sure how that effects things?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you

Hi,

Since I'm using this plugin: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132482
I haven't received any spam registration.

there is also a list of blacklisted email domains you should use. I'm not sure where I found this list, either here or on the vb.com. Try to do a search.

Good luck!

mallick · #10 10-23-2009, 01:14 PM

as everybody said.. human verification.. random question is the way to go..
i have successfully stopped 99.9% of spams through that..

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