Please help! I'm an admin on my SMF 2.0.5 site (offroadalliance.com - check it out!) and I'm having an overload of "members" trying to join my site and its like 5 every hour! What is a mod or something that you've used to stop them! Is there some sort of IP checker or something because there not on a private IP and its not the same IP for each one. Just need to install a mod to figure it out! Thanks!
Spam - my forum is flooded with spam, what can I do (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam%2C_what_can_I_do) has some suggestions.
I have everyone in play with questions and extreme Captcha...
Hi there, just a suggestion but I've found Anti Spam: KeyCAPTCHA (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2839) has helped my forum tremendously in preventing spam-accounts from registering.
I installed it nearly a week ago, and we've received only legitimate registrations since. (Plus it comes with a super-fun/user-friendly puzzle.)
Does no one do a search or even look at the topic list anymore? There's been a few dozen threads about this problem over the last few days, any one of which would have answered these questions. ;)
I have *NO* CAPTCHA at all.... and, once I replaced my questions, all was good again.
Quote from: inaterr on December 18, 2014, 12:04:46 AM
Please help! I'm an admin on my SMF 2.0.5 site (offroadalliance.com - check it out!) and I'm having an overload of "members" trying to join my site and its like 5 every hour! What is a mod or something that you've used to stop them! Is there some sort of IP checker or something because there not on a private IP and its not the same IP for each one. Just need to install a mod to figure it out! Thanks!
Open an account with Stop Spam Forum: http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/
Install Stop Spammer mod: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547
Go to stop spam form and register and get a 'key' once you have the key put the key in the proper place on the page..
Use some good questions, this will also help stop the spammers
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/?mod=1547
this one i use. It helpful
inaterr, I have marked this as solved as you have not responded in almost a month and I have assumed this is now sorted if this is wrong please update us to what you have tried since :)
Also I would advise if you have not already upgrading to 2.0.9 :)