Banned on registration

[Scr00L00s3]

What would cause lifetime banning upon new user registration? The forum was set for email verification and image verification a week ago to try and stop spam posting. Now any user awaiting email conformation receives a lifetime ban.

When I goto ACP and view banned members there is a list of lifetime bans but they have not been banned by a staff member. It appeas they have banned themselves ???

eg:

user: example_user
banned by: example_user
banned on: 3/23/07
ban period: permanent
ban will be lifted: never
ban time remaining: forever

I have reverted the settings back to no image or email verification and lifted all bans but the problem is still there. I have checked in vb options > banning options and everything is fine. There are no IP's banned. I have also checked the usergroups and everything looks fine there as well.

What would cause this and how can I correct it?

Thank you for your time.

[tobybird]

I want to say I remember a hack that had this sort of result upon removal.... Can't remember which though. You might want to check any installed products you may have.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Check that you don't have your Awaiting Email Confirmation usergroup set to be abanned usergroup.

[Scr00L00s3]

Thank you fo the replies. The awaiting email usergroup is not set as a banned group and th banned list grows per visit.

[dodgeuk19]

did u import from phpbb using impex ? or is it a new forum ?

if u did use impex u need to deleted the usergroup that is creates

imported active members i think, once u delete the usergroup move them to the registered user group to be able to login with all the current details

[Code Monkey]

I just fixed a board that had this problem. I wish I could remember what it was. It was an old mod that caused problems after a vBulletin upgrade. Turn off your mods one by one and see if that fixes it.