Attacked by spam bots

[Kindred]

KeyCAPTCHA Mod


The mod I linked has solved this problem for us. Almost all of the bots have stopped coming to our forums since. If this doesn't work there is another that asks "Are you a bot?" / "Are you a human?" - I've kept the question on "random" to switch back and forth between the two, and randomly ordering the drop down menu to answer.

That looks like it would work, but I got an error on install.

read the FAQ about what to do when you see and error on mod installation

[Steve]

Error in mod installation

[gigashiga]

ques and answer mod has worked for me, to a great extent.
the key is using different questions related to your forum so that genuine forum members can answer it.
from 100's of posts a day it came to couple of posts a day.

[cpf]

KeyCAPTCHA Mod


The mod I linked has solved this problem for us. Almost all of the bots have stopped coming to our forums since. If this doesn't work there is another that asks "Are you a bot?" / "Are you a human?" - I've kept the question on "random" to switch back and forth between the two, and randomly ordering the drop down menu to answer.

That looks like it would work, but I got an error on install.

read the FAQ about what to do when you see and error on mod installation

Will do.  Where is the FAQ?

[Illori]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Error_in_mod_installation

[cpf]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Error_in_mod_installation

Thanks.

[Steve]

Error in mod installation

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Error_in_mod_installation

Oh sure, Illori, steal my thunder ...

[cpf]

I forgot to reply back.  I was getting flooded daily with the Russian spammers, but I installed Arantor's spam mod, and I haven't had a single spam get through yet.  This completely solves the spammer problem.