Anyone else getting higher than usual spam signups?

[Macsee]

I've got Glowhost Spam-o-matic but I've seen a sudden surge in spam signups over the last two days.

I've got the Akismet API code in my spam-o-matic settings. Is there a problem with Akismet? Is anyone else seeing a sudden increase in the number of spam signups?

[Craigr]

Me too, have had loads in the past few days.
Quite a few got past Spam-o-matic too, but luckily the posts were tagged for moderation.

[youfif]

I'm using StopForumSpam and this mod stops in my forum over 99% of bot registrations.

In the logfile you see the hundreds of tried registrations from bots a day. Totally, there are thousands.

[Rich]

I have also seen a large influx of spam and found this thread searching for additional remedies. lol

[Macsee]

Originally Posted by youfif

I'm using StopForumSpam and this mod stops in my forum over 99% of bot registrations.

Over the last several days StopForumSpam seems to be having problems. I saw a message on their website the other day saying they were down. Subsequent to that and on numerous occasions over the last few days their site has been inaccessible.

This may be part of the increased spam coming through. I don't know to what extent Akismet's API works in GlowHost's Spamomatic but it doesn't seem to be blocking a lot of the spam that's been hitting recently. Perhaps the spammers who target blogs - the type Akismet has probably the most data on - are different to the forum spammers.

[Stefan118]

Originally Posted by youfif

I'm using StopForumSpam and this mod stops in my forum over 99% of bot registrations.

In the logfile you see the hundreds of tried registrations from bots a day. Totally, there are thousands.

So have I...
Normaly 0 spam registrations per day.
Unfortunately this site was down for 10 hours last night and 19 spammers had signed up and were posting.

I have also Stop the registration bots installed, and this blocks a huge amount of spammers.
I have set the registratin time at 27 seconds or mor.
Spammers and bots signup faster (1 or 2 seconds) so they don't pass.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Stefan118

So have I...
Normaly 0 spam registrations per day.
Unfortunately this site was down for 10 hours last night and 19 spammers had signed up and were posting.

I have also Stop the registration bots installed, and this blocks a huge amount of spammers.
I have set the registration time at 27 seconds or mor.
Spammers and bots signup faster (1 or 2 seconds) so they don't pass.

i hope that you used the new API link for registration, it was posted on their forums that if you use their API you need to update your link to match otherwise they cant get through

you need to open functions_ghsom.php

and change all

PHP Code:

stopforumspam.org 


to

PHP Code:

api.stopforumspam.org 


[Stefan118]

The api key is only to report spammers.
No need for the addon to work.

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by Stefan118

The api key is only to report spammers.
No need for the addon to work.

this is where you are wrong if stopforumspam.org API is down then registration will be allowed, api.stopforumspam.org is the new API where we are supposed to report spammers as the old one at stopforumspam.org is no longer being updated it clearly says that in their forums and ask all to update their api link from

stopforumspam.org to
api.stopforumspam.org

the only time registration will not be allowed is if API is ignored if it can't be reach

the new link api.stopforumspam.org is more reliable

[John Lester]

I turned off email verification a couple of months back, and in 36 hours I had 2K attempted registrations blocked by spam-o-matic Since then spam-o blocks about 50 a day and I will maybe see 1 spam post per day.