Hi all,
I recently upgraded to v4 and have been using various built-in and add-on features to stem the tide of spam on my forums, mostly with good results. However, I have a new problem: bots spamming requests to the registration page. I am getting a million or more hits on this request daily:
vb/register.php?do=addmember
That is, even in stopping them from signing up and posting, the spambots are overwhelming my site. The only way I've been able to stop this is by disabling registration.
vB support says they can't really do anything about it, which makes sense. One option is mass-blocking IP ranges of the geographical areas most often responsible, which I'm discussing with my web host. But that has its own issues.
I was just wondering if anyone here had any other, more creative ideas about what could be done to help deal with this. I saw a thread somewhere that mentioned renaming register.php to something else.. would that work, and how involved would it be?
Thanks,
Charles
I recently upgraded to v4 and have been using various built-in and add-on features to stem the tide of spam on my forums, mostly with good results. However, I have a new problem: bots spamming requests to the registration page. I am getting a million or more hits on this request daily:
vb/register.php?do=addmember
That is, even in stopping them from signing up and posting, the spambots are overwhelming my site. The only way I've been able to stop this is by disabling registration.
vB support says they can't really do anything about it, which makes sense. One option is mass-blocking IP ranges of the geographical areas most often responsible, which I'm discussing with my web host. But that has its own issues.
I was just wondering if anyone here had any other, more creative ideas about what could be done to help deal with this. I saw a thread somewhere that mentioned renaming register.php to something else.. would that work, and how involved would it be?
Thanks,
Charles
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