With your help we'll keep the forums clean! If this happens report it and when I get home from work I always check my messages and will get that account deleted and also all the postings that were made by that account. I do all this so it keeps the spammers out but on occasion one may slip by. I have tried blocking certain IP ranges but with that it sometimes nails real people so that had to be removed as a block, so now I have to look at every person that applies and that can take a little bit beings this forum can get 15-40 applications a day. 15 out of 20 people that applied are false accounts or spambot accounts trying to be set up. Many of you wonder why it takes a bit to get approved to the AntsCanada Forums? Well that's because I have to look at each and every person that applies to the forums! Yes I look at the name, the IP, the place they state there are from and where their IP says they are from and so forth. It’s a much more complete forum software and we especially like how it integrates with our existing systems.As many of you have seen a SpamBot got thru the reg process. UPDATE: After running phpBB for over one year, we decided it was time to purchase vBulletin. I also recommend checking out a great site called Forum Matrix which lets you compare dozens of different forum solutions side-by-side.
#FORUM SPAM BOT UPGRADE#
That way when it comes time to upgrade phpBB, you’ll remember exactly what you changed the first time and can do it again with ease.įor those of you who wonder why I decided to use phpBB, it’s because of several reasons. I recommend bookmarking the sites of any mods you make as well as adding comments to the code you update. It’s also worth noting that applying mods to your forum will probably get blown away when it comes time to upgrade phpBB.
#FORUM SPAM BOT MOD#
Remember to make sure you backup your files before doing this mod and read the directions carefully! So on your “General” page, click the “run now” button for the “purge the cache” option. You will have to run a simple mySQL query that inserts new values into the config table and also edit 3-5 phpBB3 files.Īfter you make the updates, it usually won’t show up until you clear your cache. For this mod you will need database and ftp access. Just open it up locally in your web browser and follow the steps. If you aren’t familiar with installing phpBB mods, then listen up.
#FORUM SPAM BOT REGISTRATION#
You set this question up on the “General” => “User Registration Setting” page at the bottom. In my case I used the basic “Is fire hot or cold?” question but you can use whatever you like. This mod basically adds a new field on registration where you can create any question/answer combo you want.
#FORUM SPAM BOT HOW TO#
They also don’t know how to answer the question so they are stopped dead in their tracks. Since the phpBB spam robot scripts know the exact order and number of fields on the registration page, this new field throws them off. As with any mod, it takes some time to set everything up (it took me about 1 hour total) but so far it’s blocked everything. It’s called Anti-Bot Question and it does a great job beating the spam bots. So today I finally got fed up with having to delete spam posts and ban users and installed a great phpBB3 mod. Luckily the spammy forum posts haven’t been porn…at least not yet. They have figured out a way to automate and bypass both of these security measures so they can post spammy links to their products or just be a nuisance. I must say, the bot engines out there today are pretty damn smart. I have also enabled a feature to require email verification by clicking on a link before their account becomes active.They beat that too. PhpBB does come with a simple captcha-style anti-bot option but for some reason it doesn’t seem to work very well. Up until a few weeks ago, I wasn’t having any problems with forum spam but now it seems the bots have me zeroed in. For the ClassiPress forum I use a free software called phpBB.
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