I've small forums running on ikonboard. Site is getting lot of spam from automated spamming software (from this forum, it looks like xrummer or something in that nature). Ive update ikonboard not to post any links but automated user registration is giving too much trouble, looking for help in this regard, how to stop xrummer etc Thanks
I'm not familiar with that forum software, but I suggest you try to find a mod. that adds an extra captcha question like "The sum of 5 and 3 is?" etc. That might help as I don't think xrummer can bypass that.
I would suggest moving away from ikonboard as that software is really dead. Development has stopped for a few years now. If its possible you can code your own captcha mod.
Mybb has not been targetted nearly as much for spam especially by automatted systems like xrummer. Maybe some forum owners should band together and take down xrummer for good. Just a thought.
Does Ikonboard have ReCaptcha built in? Or is there an ReCapthca modification you can install? ReCaptcha will stop those spam bots.
I am not aware of any captha/verification module available on ikonboard modules. time to code something up.
Forum software developers (VB, SMF, MYBB, IPB) are developing different ways to stop spammers. Such as, with VBulletin version 3.7 and higher, ReCaptcha is a built in feature. With SMF there is an RECaptcha modification you can install. If you are having problems with spammers "right now", what is it going to be like in a few months of in a year or two? Something that should be taken into consideration - what are the ikonboard developers doing to improve the system? There are more options then just recaptcha. There are question and answer and image verification tools that forum owners can use. Maybe there is such a modification for ikonboard?