Help Preventing Spam

[ponsukeen]

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

[Illori]

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do

[Kindred]

first and foremost - UPGRADE to 2.0.15

[GigaWatt]

About the spam, try setting up your registration questions using this questionnaire template .

[Illori]

About the spam, try setting up your registration questions using this 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.

[GigaWatt]

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.

[ponsukeen]

thanks you very much