I am using SMF and the custom Avare Mu theme. Every day, I am getting constant spam from bots. I looked at installing an anti-spam modification, but simple installs are only for the default theme. Therefore, it seems that I need to do manual coding. A few questions:
1. Does the manual coding apply to all custom themes, or do different themes require different coding?
2. Is there a recommended security modification that others are having success with in preventing spam in their forum?
3. Has anyone successfully installed an anti-bot mod to the Avare Mu theme?
Thank you for your help
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do
first and foremost - UPGRADE to 2.0.15
About the spam, try setting up your registration questions using this (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=531660.msg3776163#msg3776163) questionnaire template ;).
Quote from: GigaWatt on September 27, 2018, 07:56:37 PM
About the spam, try setting up your registration questions using this (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=531660.msg3776163#msg3776163) questionnaire template ;).
actually the OP cant do that unless they upgrade to SMF 2.0 first as SMF 1.1 does not have the questions built in.
Yeah, just saw that this is posted in the 1.1 support board.
@ponsukeen: You need to upgrade ASAP. You're really behind on security fixes.
thanks you very much