I just updated vBulletin. They have quite a few nice, new anti-spam-features. The captchas are even for a human hard to read now [:)] (and I didn't pick all possible options!)
I also blocked some e-mail-domains (and banned the existing users with that domains!) (mail.ru, gawab.com, cachette.com and as I never got a usefull mail from .biz or .info, they are now blocked/banned as well)
Some patterns in (new) usernames are blocked now, too. (e.g. you are not able to add a new user called "Business Analyst")
I hope this helps and that I am not too restrictive.
Regards Klaus
P.S.: beside that, the new version of vBulletin didn't like the old theme and I had to reimplement it from scratch. I hope you are happier with the colors now.
OK, banning existing users by e-mail-domains in the management-interface of the forum didn't work. I reallized, that these damn bastards created about 500 accounts a few months ago, when the new-user-process was less restrictive.
Now I banned all of them manually in the mysql-database. (mail.ru, cashette.com and gawab.com). This time it really should help!
OK, banning existing users by e-mail-domains in the management-interface of the forum didn't work. I reallized, that these damn bastards created about 500 accounts a few months ago, when the new-user-process was less restrictive.
Now I banned all of them manually in the mysql-database. (mail.ru, cashette.com and gawab.com). This time it really should help!