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gobbly2100 · #1 01-10-2014, 07:06 PM

Hi folks,

I am in the process of cleaning up an old neglected vBulletin forum I used to run as a very active community.

I have already cleaned out 250,000 users awaiting email confirmation as they were all spam but the problem I seem to have is that the moment I open the forum to new registrations and enable the forum, I get a crazy number of bots register and start spamming like crazy.

I have recaptcha turned on for registration.

What are all the main suggestions for managing a vBulletin forum these days as I have not been using it for a couple of years now, is there anything out there that would make it easy for any spammers already registered on my forum and waiting to post?

I believe a lot of the spam bots have registered in the past before it was locked down enough and are now logging in when I enable the forum to spam like crazy.

I am using vBulletin 4.2.2 if that helps

Any help and assistance would be much appreciated!

ForceHSS · #2 01-10-2014, 08:27 PM

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248042
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633
If you need help with the settings of the first one pm me my rates are low

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