Influx of Spammers - How do I block them?

[jtech77]

I am on the last build release of vb4 and I keep getting tons of spammers with Louis Vuitton etc links now and aicauhdisa names> I have a registration question in place but it's not working. I have everything on moderator new threads/posts new members but i need to stop this. What do I do? I bought v5 but haven't installed yet.

[In Omnibus]

Make your way over to vbulletin.org where you will find several solutions. A couple of favorites are GlowHost Spam-O-Matic and vBStopForumSpam.

[Wayne Luke]

Use Question and Answer Human Verification and make sure the questions are unique to your community niche.

[mike406]

ReCAPTCHA is a good way to help keep auto registration bots from creating accounts. http://www.google.com/recaptcha

[beishe8]

ReCAPTCHA is a good way to help keep auto registration bots from creating accounts. http://www.google.com/recaptcha

It's good only for genuine humans not to bother to register.

[Hartmut]

Also you can look at www.vbulletin.org to check if there is a products which fits to your system (e.g. Spam-O-Matic).

[TheLastSuperman]

Also check out my article here for many useful links and info - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=276547