Website being spammed

[rhbvkleef]

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!

[PinkStar]

If you go to users & groups > banning > disallow e-mails then you can add your domain: yteditors.tk* as a wildcard.

[Nathan Malcolm]

If you go to users & groups > banning > disallow e-mails then you can add your domain: yteditors.tk* as a wildcard.

That should actually be *@yteditors.tk

[rhbvkleef]

thanx

[MikeInToshx]

Plugins that also might help against bots are StopForumSpam and Registration Security Question

[Rakes]

This user has been denied support.

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.

[Nathan Malcolm]

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.

[MikeInToshx]

Well since I have those plugins I haven't had a single bot that registered, so I assume it does work though.

[rhbvkleef]

Thank y'all for answering my question! Really appreciate it!

[Rakes]

This user has been denied support.

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