Spammers Registering Even After I Turned Registration Off ... How ?

[af1 racing]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Have you installed any plugins to stop spammers if not then you should

Yes, spam-o-matic is moderating nearly all of their threads but we can't find how to easily delete over 6000 spammers that have registered in the last 2 days.

Originally Posted by DougCooper

My issue was I had a lot of spammers registrations that signed up in dec 2012. They didn't activate their accounts until recently via the email confirmation. So have a look at your 'Users Awaiting Confirmation' group and if necessary clean/dump it. This is what happened to me and I was so confused as I'd turn off registations yet they were still registering, but they wern't actually registering at that point, they were simply activating accounts that they registered in the past. Take a look at the signup date of some of the new accounts as look at the registration date.

Can't prune/move more than 1000 users at a time in the admincp. The "users awaiting email confirmation" usergroup has more than 6000 new users from the past 2 days. No way to get that log under 1000 and no way to manually tick 1000 checkboxes without modifying code with javascript.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by DougCooper

BTW thanks to everyone who chipped in on this post to help really cool. One question tho, I want to either mass move all the 90000 spammers from 'Users Awaiting Email Confirmation' to either 'Banned by Moderators' group or just delete them. THe problem is in the prune users option in the backend it only seems to do it in around 1000 at a time. Then I have to do it again. This is really time consuming is there a better way ? I've heard running direct database commands is risky.

You would need access to your php.ini file in order to change max_input_vars to something larger than 1000.

[af1 racing]

I edited admincp/user.php to change the "Join Date is Before" parameter for do=prune to search after a certain date so I can limit the results to those from 2 days ago until now. With the help of a macro to tick 999 checkboxes at a time, over 10k accounts now banned and things are back under control.