Spam bots?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by Okenyon, Oct 26, 2010.

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    http://www.manlystuff.com/forum/index.php

    are all these new sign ups spam bots? they all have silly names with number at the end - they sign up and never post but i get loads a day


    if so how can i prevent this?
     
    Okenyon, Oct 26, 2010 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Are you using a captcha for new user registration?
     
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  3. Okenyon

    Okenyon Banned

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    good thinking - i don't think so, how do i turn that feature on?
     
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    Make sure reCAPTCHA is selected in Human Verification Manager settings.

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