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[Smacktalks]

I have upgraded the security code section on the Registration page to use Captcha, which now displays random numbers/letters using different fonts on mutli-coloured backgrounds to combat SPAM Bots. As well as this, the IP Ranges of the Bots that were posting earlier have now been banned, luckily we don't have any genuine members within these IP Ranges to cause problems.

Should you find any SPAM Bots that get through the registration page and do post, please point this out in the Feedback & Suggestions forum and we will have it removed.

Regards,

Paul.

Update: I have added a new question that must be answered to the registration form under the heading "Anti-Spam Check Question". Users must now answer this question question in order to register.

Regards,

Paul.

[phil]

Cool. Two twats were here earlier advertising something about a Russian men's journal and some other asinine garbage.

[Aero]

they are the twats paul already banned... and there were more than 2!

[The Don]

http://smacktalks.org/forums/index.php?sho...mp;#entry297750
Working well I see...

[Smacktalks]

Cheers Don, just banned that ip range aswell and deleted all accounts that look similar registered on Wed/Thurs that were awaiting validation. 54 in total

[Smacktalks]

I've added a new must answer question to the registration page to mess up any bots trying to register, however there is still 109 members that registered and validated on the 1st & 2nd of this month that i'll have to delete one by one. Seeing as it's 1:43AM though, i'll do that tomorrow as I've gotta be up for work in 5 hours.

[The Don]

http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25098
http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25097
http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25096

Yup, that's working well. Why are you not looking at the obvious Gamertag/Wii Code connection I pointed out earlier?

EDIT: http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25099
EDIT 2: http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25100
EDIT 3: http://smacktalks.or...showtopic=25107

Edited by The Don, 03 October 2008 - 06:01 PM.

[Smacktalks]

Like I said, they registered BEFORE the spam protection was upgraded.

Anyway, I've just banned all 119 spam account that registered over the last 3 days.
I've also checked to see how many registered today, and there's only one. So that's more than a 99% improvement!