My first spammer!

[dtommy79]

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!