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mouacy
captcah works but spam bot still gets through

  • 2010/7/13 18:29

  • mouacy

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  • Since: 2002/11/2


I recently upgrade to the latest xoops 2.4.5 and have enable captcha and protector. I did a test on registration, but the captcha works fine. It wouldn't let me get pass without the correct confirmation code.

The problem is: I still get spam bot openning new accounts every 5 to 10 minutes.

Any idea how I can track and troubleshoot this problem?
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Peekay
Re: captcah works but spam bot still gets through

  • 2010/7/13 19:26

  • Peekay

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2335

  • Since: 2004/11/20


You can try any or all of the suggestions in this thread.

I don't yet use 2.4.5 so the registration process files may have changed a little.

To be honest, I was hoping the human Vs robot registration issue would have been addressed in the core by now using a protection layer below the captcha.

Something needs to be done as a lot of users seem to suffer from this problem.
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mouacy
Re: captcah works but spam bot still gets through

  • 2010/7/14 15:49

  • mouacy

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 138

  • Since: 2002/11/2


thanks for the reply.

I simply add a few more fields from the profile module and make the fields required. That seems to stop the autobot for the moment. Will know more after a few days.

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