vBulletin 3.7.0 or vBulletin 3.6.10 ? - Please suggest...

[Suri.CMS]

Hi All,
I am about to install latest version - vBulletin 3.7.0 and then found out that some users who did not have 'spam' problems with 3.6.10 seems to be having spam problems now after upgraded to 3.7.0.

Mine is a fresh installation and I may not really need so many new features of 3.7.0.

But 'security' & 'no spam registrations' are important for me, as my board will be high activity board.

What do you suggest for me to install ? vBulletin 3.7.0 or vBulletin 3.6.10 ?

Any spam problems solved in vBulletin 3.7.1 (Latest patch) ?

Note: I can understand that there is no way to stop the manual registration spam. But I don't want any automatic spam registrations or posts by bots.

[Andy]

I suggest 3.7.0.

There is no issues regarding spam registrations as long as you use a unique Question and Answer verification.

The captcha system appears to no longer work to prevent spammers. Not a big deal everyone hated the captcha system anyway because it is very difficult to use.

[sockwater]

Use 3.7.1 and get an akismet key to use for automatically filtering spam posts. It does an almost 100% perfect job for me.

[Suri.CMS]

I suggest 3.7.0.

There is no issues regarding spam registrations as long as you use a unique Question and Answer verification.
Should I install vB 3.7.1 ?

By the way, below 2 threads made me to think about these spam registrations.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=272439
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=272630

Most of them clearly state that they did not have these spam problems in vB 3.6.8.
They also stated that Q&A system is also unable to stop these spam registrations.

Use 3.7.1 and get an akismet key to use for automatically filtering spam posts. It does an almost 100% perfect job for me.
If you don't mind, can you please explain a bit where will I get this akismet key and how I use it ?
I am a bit new to these things.

[sockwater]

http://akismet.com/

Oh, and spammers often buy human-registered accounts for a couple of cents apiece, then let a bot loose on them.