I've always had new user manual moderation on as it is one of the best spam-prevention techniques there is.
Over the past few days I've noticed a few spammers getting through and assumed my fellow-admin had just been a bit lax with his moderation. I don't believe that's the case however.
I've just deleted a spammer who registered only this morning. I'd not been into the Admin panel and my fellow admin has not been online all day. So I've done a search of new registrations from the past few days that are already in the 'members' category and there are loads.
Somehow, people are getting around the need for their registration to be manually reviewed. I've just performed a test registration myself and the account is, correctly, sitting at awaiting moderation.
I'm running the latest version of vB 4.2.2 PL4 so I'm assuming I don't have a legacy security vulnerability that is causing this.
Any clues anyone?
Over the past few days I've noticed a few spammers getting through and assumed my fellow-admin had just been a bit lax with his moderation. I don't believe that's the case however.
I've just deleted a spammer who registered only this morning. I'd not been into the Admin panel and my fellow admin has not been online all day. So I've done a search of new registrations from the past few days that are already in the 'members' category and there are loads.
Somehow, people are getting around the need for their registration to be manually reviewed. I've just performed a test registration myself and the account is, correctly, sitting at awaiting moderation.
I'm running the latest version of vB 4.2.2 PL4 so I'm assuming I don't have a legacy security vulnerability that is causing this.
Any clues anyone?
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