SPAM IS NOW OUT OF CONTROL - I have a solution but need help implementing.

[JG-52]

Originally Posted by kh99

I'm glad you got it worked out, but I have a question for you: when you go to the admicp options, under Human Verification Options, did you have the "Register" box checked?

Yes, I have Register, Contact Us, and Recover Lost Password checked.

In the past 20 hours, there have been 135 blocked attempts. The majority of the times are still below 2 seconds, but a couple were edging up towards the 15-second mark.

This morning, I increased the time difference to 30 seconds. A few minutes ago, one blocked attempt had a time difference of 16 seconds:

A registration was prevented by bot blocker; visitor information below.

Time Difference: 16 second(s)

Username: mastermindabacus
Email: mastermindabacus@live.com
IP: 117.196.217.118
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11

I hope some of the bots are not catching on and intentionally adding a delay to the process in an attempt to get past the time limit. Am I giving them/it too much credit?

As much as I like the email notices, I am going to see if I can modify the code to add a PHP function that writes the information to a log file. I have never programmed in PHP, but I used to be good at C several decades ago.