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I'm not sure what's happened, but in the past week, I've been hit with loads and loads and loads of spam on my blog. Generally I get one spam post maybe every week or two, however it's skyrocketed to at least 10 or 20 a day and sometimes as high as 300. Spambots are registering non-stop (which I will have to at some point prune instead of just banning) and these spambots are also starting to hit my forum.
At the moment, I've implemented a few measures to reduce what is visible to the public, since we don't get all that many blog posts, they have to be all approved and most of the spam on the forum is immediately flagged. I thought it might be just a crazy couple of days, but I can't keep banning these guys so I was hoping I could get some help.
Steps I've taken:
1. Update to latest vBulletin 4.2.0 Patch 2
2. Updated my plugins to their latest versions
3. Tried to change from manual questions to reCAPTCHA (and now back to a different set of questions) for registration
So I'm at my wits end as to what to do. My website is www.DSDatabase.org, it's relatively small so it shouldn't really be a spam magnet. If anyone has any ideas, I really appreciate it! Thanks!
At the moment, I've implemented a few measures to reduce what is visible to the public, since we don't get all that many blog posts, they have to be all approved and most of the spam on the forum is immediately flagged. I thought it might be just a crazy couple of days, but I can't keep banning these guys so I was hoping I could get some help.
Steps I've taken:
1. Update to latest vBulletin 4.2.0 Patch 2
2. Updated my plugins to their latest versions
3. Tried to change from manual questions to reCAPTCHA (and now back to a different set of questions) for registration
So I'm at my wits end as to what to do. My website is www.DSDatabase.org, it's relatively small so it shouldn't really be a spam magnet. If anyone has any ideas, I really appreciate it! Thanks!
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