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Think this one is trying to sell us something?! lol :salut: :rolleyes:
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Thanks quahappy, deleted him :twisted:

And deleted all of the other bots, so we are bot-free for the time being :P
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I installed Avantibot MOD at my site about two weeks ago (only takes a minute to install). That has stopped spambots in there tracks. As for human spammers, I've changed the registration process so new accounts has to be activated by Admin. Of course, this is no good if getting many new users a day as it would be a pain checking new users email addresses / IP, etc against possible banned ones. ;)

I used to have Anti-spam ACP for phpBB2 and on average, on viewing the ACP > Spam log, getting around 50 spambots a day trying to regiser but failing at Captcha code lol.
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What the heck is PRC :lol:
Peoples Republic of China :(
I installed Avantibot MOD at my site about two weeks ago (only takes a minute to install).
This one? http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=1545695
I like the look of that, I might give it a shot. I didn't want to install anything which would slow down the registration time for real people (which things like the extra question can potentially do) but changing the background of the CAPTCHA shouldn't do that... thanks quahappy :)
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That's the one! Sorry, I didn't give the full MOD title.
battye wrote:I like the look of that, I might give it a shot. I didn't want to install anything which would slow down the registration time for real people (which things like the extra question can potentially do) but changing the background of the CAPTCHA shouldn't do that... thanks quahappy :)
No worries. :D
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moongirl wrote:Registered users: MSN [Bot], Oooh it's the ambiguous UQM but maybe not that UQM bot[Bot], Yahoo [Bot]
Oooh la la!! :lol:
PMSL!!! Classic. :)
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Our newest member essemeargok - is the weakest link. Goodbye!! :twisted:
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Don't think that post will be kept "up" any longer somehow... http://forums.cricketmx.com/viewtopic.p ... 827#p96827

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