rcbroughton wrote:
I have had to temporarily suspend the registration of new accounts as I have been flooded over the past few days with a very large number of spam user registrations.
Which version of phpBB are you using? There are several easy-to-use mods for v.2 that will pretty much stop the spambots cold. I think some of that is built into v.3, but not sure all of it is.
One mod requires users to answer a question that requires human thought in order to complete the registration. Another mod uses an enhanced CAPCHA code that is much harder for the bots to break. Yet another mod disallows certain fields in the user profile to be filled in during registration. Still another disallows HTML code in any user profile field.
We're using all four. No more spambots! We still get the occasional human spammer showing up, but they might post one or two spam messages and then disappear. By the time they return (if they do), they've been banned and the spam deleted.