Huge Spike in Guests on Board

[Bluemax712]

Any system will eventually be cracked and then patched
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012...-to-its-knees/

I am wondering if VBulletin Recapture ever needs updating manually
or is all the code maintained at google and automatically updated to the latest
without intervention on our part?

I find the best way is combination:
1) use promotion system to limit permissions of newbies until a certain number of posts
2) use Glowhost Spam-O-Matic (except dont' use the username verification)

[hunter22375]

I made some changes...we'll see what happens. If they worked, my "most users online ever" amount will be way off. I looked for a place to edit that number and came up empty handed. Does anyone know where I can edit it?

[CAG CheechDogg]

I have been using reCaptcha for over 3 years now and not once have I had any problems, I have used it on joomla, kunena, wordpress and many other applications that take it.

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Originally Posted by hunter22375

I made some changes...we'll see what happens. If they worked, my "most users online ever" amount will be way off. I looked for a place to edit that number and came up empty handed. Does anyone know where I can edit it?

You might be able to find that record using phpMyAdmin from you cPanel

[NathanJT]

Originally Posted by hunter22375

I read the article and, for the most part, have an idea of what I had an idea of what it was saying. What my question then becomes is, why aren't all these new fake members showing up in vB or my third party member management system? Because regardless if a member fails to confirm their email because they provided a bogus one, their screen name still shows up and they get added to the total member amount.....which has not changed along with the hundreds of undeliverable emails I have been receiving.

I have the same issue. New user email notifications being sent to me and then when I go into admincp to search for them they don't exist. Mine is small scale compared to yours but of the dozen new user emails I received last night I can only find 4 in the DB.

[edit] What I have noticed though, in the main, is that the IP's these sign ups are coming from are COLOs. Now it could be that the ISP in question has a POP there but it seems odd that all of a sudden it's servers doing this rather than rooted PC's.