New Recaptcha for vB3.8

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Originally Posted by Zachery

Just pointing this out ozzy, once your current "stop spam" methods get popular enough, xrummer, and other bots will build defenses around them, and then they'll be useless too.

Actually there is no way a defense against the registration timer will ever be done. Because first, you can't guess the timer setting, so you make the delay 60 seconds at least for your botnet. This greatly cuts into the production. Secondly, false fields exist in the timer mod. Bots always put gibberish in odd fields. Third, there's also a maximum time setting you gotta figure on.

XRumer currently has nothing in it that even allows for time delays. I'm a paid license holder and get all the updates.

And this is just the timer mod. The other mods we recommend involve targeted blocking of known spammer hostnames, user agent strings, and spammy emails that use dots and other punctuation in the username of the email addresses.

And none of them give any hint whatsoever that any human verification is being used, and don't give "gotcha" messages when a spammer fails the checks. And as a package, they provide alot of bullets in the anti-spam gun.