Hello,
I'm currently getting a lot of signups with invalid e-mail adresses. The spammers are using fake e-mail adresses with my own domain (
yteditors.tk). They're filling up my databases if I don't keep cleaning these spammers up!
Are there any ways to prevent people signing up with e-mail adresses from my domain?
Thank you!
If you go to users & groups > banning > disallow e-mails then you can add your domain: yteditors.tk* as a wildcard.
(2014-01-15, 02:08 PM)MikeInToshx Wrote: [ -> ]Plugins that also might help against bots are StopForumSpam and Registration Security Question
Ehm, you do know security questions won't work take that from a person who has written game bots to spam bots for fun.
(2014-01-17, 04:35 PM)Rakes Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-01-15, 02:08 PM)MikeInToshx Wrote: [ -> ]Plugins that also might help against bots are StopForumSpam and Registration Security Question
Ehm, you do know security questions won't work take that from a person who has written game bots to spam bots for fun.
It depends on what the questions and answers are. Mathematical questions (What is 1+1?) are usually a bad idea, but niche specific questions (How many seasons of Dexter were made?) can help prevent spam quite well.
If you know a little PHP you could also modify the script to serve an image instead of the plain text question. I've found that works well for all bots.
Well since I have those plugins I haven't had a single bot that registered, so I assume it does work though.
Thank y'all for answering my question! Really appreciate it!
(2014-01-17, 04:50 PM)Nathan Malcolm Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-01-17, 04:35 PM)Rakes Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-01-15, 02:08 PM)MikeInToshx Wrote: [ -> ]Plugins that also might help against bots are StopForumSpam and Registration Security Question
Ehm, you do know security questions won't work take that from a person who has written game bots to spam bots for fun.
It depends on what the questions and answers are. Mathematical questions (What is 1+1?) are usually a bad idea, but niche specific questions (How many seasons of Dexter were made?) can help prevent spam quite well.
If you know a little PHP you could also modify the script to serve an image instead of the plain text question. I've found that works well for all bots.
Well there's still a problem there, you can always just get the questions manually and push them into a bot, thus it'll still get past it