hi guys,
I have many users registered with strange names and no posting. Is there a way to stop this from happening further?
Thank you
Is that really a problem? More users seems like it would be a good thing, no spam posts is even better.
Try installing Akismet, should help a bit and I think it comes default with every new 1.6 installation.
Askimet is activated. Another 5 added after posting.
And there is posts.
I've had success with this plugin myself:
http://www.mybbcentral.com/thread-1496.html
I believe you are required to be a subscriber though, which from memory is only $5 per year. There are numerous other resources at the forums which you may find useful. So really $5 is a small price to pay.
stopforumspam plugin is said to be more efficient for forums. try it. #free
Remove the ability to have a signature until say 10 posts and enable an activation email and they should remain dormant, then simple use an account cleaner to delete inactive accounts and you wont even notice them.
At any given time I have about 15 spammers register on my site but they dont post, dont have signatures and then get deleted causing me no harm at all
Askimet is great.
For those who have never used this... I also use
ProjectHoneyPot's search to look up IPs that seem to be acting suspicious, but I'm not sure about. They have a
HUGE running list (i.e. Harvesters, Spam Servers, Dictionary Attackers, & Comment Spammers). You can go right into your .htaccess file & type in what IPs you want to ban (make sure you have write-in access).
example of how you would write it:
allow from all
deny from 81.226.187.166
deny from 91.201.66.88
etc...
make sure to ban in the main .htaccess file just inside your public.html. I find this useful since I have several websites so it blocks the IPs from all of them. If you have just one site, blocking in the .htaccess just inside the public.html will block them from your whole website.
The "Stop Forum Spam" plugin from the mods database here is bypass the best I have seen/used.