Spammers uncontrollable in vBulletin official forums too! here's my quick screen shot....that was posted in presales question and as well in testing thing out section for those who want to believe it was an automated spam post that I got in my forum as well... VB Team work hard
Why would vbulletin.com be immune to spammers? I fail to see any humor in your post. Fighting spam in forums is a group effort. Regardless if your running VB, IPB, MYBB, SMF, PHPBB,,,,,,,, if a spammer wants in, they will get in. Because that is the nature of a forum, people sign up and post. Whether that person is a spammer or someone interested in being part of the community, we will not know until their first or second post. There is no need in making fun of a forum because they got a spam post. Its disrespectful and only adds insult to injury. Just keep in mind, tomorrow, it might be your forum that gets spammed, and you would not want someone making fun of you.
My vB forum is so out of control with those scamming bastards that I had to turn manual registration on. The good part is that all of those spam bots have a birthdate of January 1, 1980 and are located in China, so you can see which users are legit and which aren't pretty quickly.
If you are running VB 3.7 or higher, enable ReCaptcha and that will stop the spam bots. My sons SMF forum was getting hit with spammers posting links to adult sites. Well, my son is 14 and I would rather him not see that kind of stuff. The new spam bots act like the old style captcha tool is useless. Even though I had capthca and email activation enabled on my sons forum, they were still signing up. When I installed the ReCaptcha modification on his site, the spam stopped right then. Instead of getting 4 or 5 spammers a day, he has not gotten a spammer in almost 2 weeks. The same thing goes for my wifes VB forum. But the spammers were posting links to world of warcraft sites on hers. Once I activated ReCaptcha on her site, the spam stopped.
Also install IsBot... it will wipe out 90% of your spam joiners... user search over at vb.org to get it. I have it installed on all my forums.
i have loaded the mods that completely stopped all spam at my website. Since then, i have had no spam or anything.