How to prevent spam bot

[Nelson Noa]

I have had over 30 spam bots each with this in their email @certifiedtgp.com and usually they post link and spam my forum.

www.pokelite.com

[XxSky DreamerxX]

You will need to activate the Akismet which can be done by following these steps:

Activate the Akismet plugin from the plugin list, you should have it cause it comes with the installation.

Then go to:

ACP > Configuration > Settings > Akismet. Then follow these steps:

Akismet Main Switch should be ON

Get the Akismet key from http://wordpress.com/api-keys/.
Enter your key and then change this "Spam messages until ban". BNy default its three but you can change it to 1 or 2 or 4.

That basically means that if a person posts links like 3 times or 1 time according to your spam messages until ban, he will be autmatically banned by the system.

[Nelson Noa]

Yes, but how can I prevent them from joining the site.

[faviouz]

1. Go to Admin CP > Configuration > Banning > Disallowed Email Addresses.

2. Insert *@certifiedtgp.com in the box.

3. Click on Disallow Email Address.

[XxSky DreamerxX]

This might come in handy: http://spam-ip.com/how-to-block-forum-spam.php

Also, There is one way that I did and it might take a little time but you can do it this way:

Go here:
ACP > Configuration > Banning.

From there, enter all the spam bot ips that has registered in your forums so far and block them. Disallowing email address won't work cause they will just create a new email address thus, you will need to ban them from there ip address. Then they will not be able to register. Also, reduce your registration to 1 per account.

ACP > Configuration > User Registrations & Profile Option > Maximum Registrations Per IP Address :

Change that to 1.

Then find this: Time Between Registrations. Change that to like 1000000 meaning they will be have to wait that many house before registering a second account. That should reduce your spam bots.

As for preventing them from the site, there is no current way to tell because that would need a plugin

[Nelson Noa]

Thanks.

[linguist]

Two useful plugns:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/stopforumspam-com-for-mybb
(to keep them from joining)

http://mods.mybb.com/view/goodbye-spammer
(for when it's too late)