spammers are back
 

It appears pretty clear that they have "broken" the code for the CAPTCHA graphic that we use to prevent spam. Six spammers caught by moderation today.

I have added a new question to the registration questions:

What is four plus five?

They have to answer 9, or they can't register. The default is 2.

This may help prevent robots from filling out the registration.

Please let me know if you are required to fill this out in the user CP. I just did mine and I had to fill it out. This is not what the setting suggested.

It made me answer the question when I went into my profile. Damned spammer. ;)

I knocked off 4 Russians today. :shotgun:
It did let me go to my user cp, without a challenge, but probably because I'd already logged into the Mod area, earlier.

Damn. Well this is not what the setting suggested, so it must be broken, do y'all mind filling this out for the time being?

Or I can spend money on upgrading the software, which has a potential fix to this, before upgrading the hardware...

How often do people go to the user cp?

It didn't bother me when I opened my User CP...

didn't ask me

vBulletin is smart, it knows who the shady ones are. :lol2:

OK I did change another part of the settings which may have fixed the User CP asking this question.

when i went into my user cp,


.... it called me a cock.

And a fur salesman, with a spamming rap sheet a mile long, from Panama, claiming he was from Switzerland. :rolleyes:

spamming rap sheet? euphemism, or .....?

The problem of having to answer this question in the User Profile is fixed.

The setting is helping. Glancing at the vBulletin support boards, we are in the company of many, many forums around the world.

Russia, Latvia, et al, seem to be making an effort to reclaim their place, after the surge from the Chinese... and one persistent prick from Panama. :haha:

Interesting article about how spammers solve CAPTCHAs.

I went into CP and as far as "Edit Email & Password' and was never prompted.

Edit: Of course I am running IE7 on an XP Pro SP3 box, so with this "oddball" system I can see how the behavior might be unpredictable.

Sorry for the confusion, Flint, but I bumped up a thread from a few years ago partly on the grounds that it was the most recent and relevant-looking place to stick that tidbit about CAPTCHAs. And partly on the grounds that I wasn't paying much attention.

GODDAMN YOU AND YOUR THREAD-BUMPING SHENANIGANS!!!1

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Found that a lil funny - Exactly what UT was tellin ya.