Lots of spammers, probably bots.

**Adom7** · Mon 13 Oct '08, 3:41am

Originally posted by Puntoboy

Over the last 2 weeks my forum has been under attack from hundreds of spammers posting porn, viagra, ***** extension rubbish all over it.

I have image verification and new members must verify their email address and up until 2 weeks ago, I've never had a problem with spammers. I've had to turn on admin approval to stop them posting all over the place but I believe this has led to some genuine members being deleted.

I'm currently working on upgrading to 3.7.x and aim to have my forum upgraded by the end of the month.

What I want to know is, will upgrading stop the problem and is there anything I can do in the short term to prevent them from joining?

Thanks,

Chris

The same issue happened to my site 3 weeks ago.
when I changed the image verifacation system from Image Verification to reCAPTCHA, its over.

**Puntoboy** · Mon 13 Oct '08, 3:55am

Originally posted by Adom7

The same issue happened to my site 3 weeks ago.
when I changed the image verifacation system from Image Verification to reCAPTCHA, its over.

How do I change it to reCAPTCHA?

**Kinneas** · Mon 13 Oct '08, 7:39am

You would need to upgrade to 3.7 - reCAPTCHA support was not available when 3.5 was released.

**peterska2** · Wed 15 Oct '08, 11:45pm

Also refer to How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots

Some of the things will not be relevant as they are not available in 3.5 or 3.6 and require 3.7

**Puntoboy** · Fri 17 Oct '08, 12:31am

Shouldn't be a problem I guess as I'll be upgrading in the coming weeks.

Lots of spammers, probably bots.

Lots of spammers, probably bots.

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