I have captcha on at registration and a captcha plugin mod installed when someone tries to login, but I still have lots of bots everyday registering and getting around the captchas. Its getting annoying to have to delete 10-20 new accounts a day, what else can be done to prevent these robots from making fake accounts??? I'm using vb 3.6.8 patch 2 until I can get enough money to purchase the latest vb upgrade.
Stopping Bots from Registering
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I found Q/A works much better than captcha. The more questions, the harder for bots to guess random questions.To be or not to be... Where the hell is the question????My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too
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Ok, cool, so how do I install the Q & A? Is there a plugin for this? Thanks.Play Online Texas Holdem Poker? Checkout my Texas Holdem Poker Forums and get Online Poker BonusesComment
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To be or not to be... Where the hell is the question????My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too
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CentOS 6.2 - Apache:2.2.15(Apache2Handler) - PHP:5.3.3 - MySQL:5.1.61
Xampp/Win-XP - Apache v2.2.21(Apache2Handler) - PHP:5.3.8 - MySQL:5.5.16
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I looked in the panel for that option and its not there. Im using vb 3.6.8 and that feature is not installed...Play Online Texas Holdem Poker? Checkout my Texas Holdem Poker Forums and get Online Poker BonusesComment
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I haven't seen 3.6 in ages,,, I looked in the latest of vB 3 (3.7.8)... Sorry, if the QA option not available in your version, you might want to check in www.vbulletin.org for any modsTo be or not to be... Where the hell is the question????My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too
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CentOS 6.2 - Apache:2.2.15(Apache2Handler) - PHP:5.3.3 - MySQL:5.1.61
Xampp/Win-XP - Apache v2.2.21(Apache2Handler) - PHP:5.3.8 - MySQL:5.5.16
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ok thanks, maybe someone else will know what I can do, I think I already looked there, thats how I found captcha at login. If I can fix the problem at registration for these bots, then I dont need a captcha at login, which is kinda annoying having to enter that everytime.Play Online Texas Holdem Poker? Checkout my Texas Holdem Poker Forums and get Online Poker BonusesComment
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Is Bot: Registration Time Check
NoSpam! - an alternative to CAPTCHA images
And finally
vB Bad Behavior
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=261492 - Note that on this version you need to edit the version number from 3.8 to 3.6 in order to make it work in 3.6 as shown below:
In the product xml change:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.7.0" />
To:
<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="3.6.0" />
These three worked extremely well for me in cutting down or eliminating spam registrations and subsequent forum spam - good luckComment
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Very nice, I am going to install each of them...I appreciate the help and the links! :-)
I will update you and let you know after they are installed if I still have any issues with the damn bots...
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Update: The first 2 I installed, Bad Behavior is up next.
Also, I got an email 1 minute ago:
The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: caulsikareeri - [email protected] (2 seconds transpired)
So obviously that mod is making a huge impact on the bots already...I just installed those mods and not even a minute later a bot is already being blocked...lmao...Now hopefully I dont get emails coming in left and right everyday...I just had to re-install my forums, and my old forums probably had 10,000+ bots...So I think these mods might stop them now...Greatly appreciate it, and if you know how I can stop the emails from coming in about bots being blocked that would be cool.
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Bad Behavior Installed, im done with all 3...Thanks again.Last edited by nick!; Tue 14 Aug '12, 8:14am.Play Online Texas Holdem Poker? Checkout my Texas Holdem Poker Forums and get Online Poker BonusesComment
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