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**letittbe** · 01-30-2007, 07:32 AM

Good question, is an ancient version (2.0.14). The reason why I brough it up is that I am planning to upgrade to the latest (2.0.22 ??) and implement the new capcha while I am at it.

I use phpBB here: www.aikido-yuishinkai.co.uk I would recommend updating to 2.0.22 IMMEDIATELY. We were hacked by some bastard in Turkey a while back on 2.0.1something...

I too am thoroughly pissed off with the spammers and have set registrations to be moderated by me as of yesterday, prior to that users needed a working email address and even that didn't stop manual registrations. Plus, even if they use a bogus email address their profile still appears in the member list along with links to their hompage full of spyware/trojans. The only other thing you can do is ban email addresses as already suggested. Or there is a forum mod that lets you log the IP of users and you can then ban IP addresses instead of mail domains (or in combination with).

I've got the mod on my PC at home but not here at work, I'll PM you with the details if you like, prob won't be until tomorrow though.

Regards

Mike

01-30-2007, 07:32 AM	#10
letittbe Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Good question, is an ancient version (2.0.14). The reason why I brough it up is that I am planning to upgrade to the latest (2.0.22 ??) and implement the new capcha while I am at it. I use phpBB here: www.aikido-yuishinkai.co.uk I would recommend updating to 2.0.22 IMMEDIATELY. We were hacked by some bastard in Turkey a while back on 2.0.1something... I too am thoroughly pissed off with the spammers and have set registrations to be moderated by me as of yesterday, prior to that users needed a working email address and even that didn't stop manual registrations. Plus, even if they use a bogus email address their profile still appears in the member list along with links to their hompage full of spyware/trojans. The only other thing you can do is ban email addresses as already suggested. Or there is a forum mod that lets you log the IP of users and you can then ban IP addresses instead of mail domains (or in combination with). I've got the mod on my PC at home but not here at work, I'll PM you with the details if you like, prob won't be until tomorrow though. Regards Mike
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