Lots of spammer registrations all of a sudden

[Chiefblackhammer Brian]

If you aren't going to install an anti-spammer mod then I highly suggest changing your activation settings "User registration settings->Account activation" to either "By User" or "By Admin". I suggest the "By User" as it would be hard for admins to determine if the user is legit right now in most cases.

The benefit being that 99% of the accounts are not human users but some form of bot and they won't activate the account or at least I have not had any of the 60 plus bogus accounts thus far do it. Likewise in both cases it will prevent your current members from seeing the bogus accounts (including nasty profile links), the bogus accounts can't create posts (if your forum posting settings are set with some basic logic) and thus your members are protected from possibly clicking a link that leads them to a virus.

Plus it is very easy to delete accounts from the user activation screen in ACP verses finding them manually and deleting them.

Sad this crap has to happen but I am sure the phpbb team will find something to help soon.

[Highway of Life]

We discussed this topic in-depth on the last phpBB Weekly podcast. We discussed things that admins can do to stop spam.
Most administrators have "user" activation set already, but many bots register an e-mail address that they use to activate their accounts, so while most don?t, there are still plenty that do. But there are many options for administrators in phpBB3, including CPFs (Custom Profile Fields) as well as the Post Queue system to prevent spam.

In the mean time, you can get a list of spam prevention MODs from the following topic: List of MODs designed to stop or detect spam on phpBB3

[kozzie Karen Ravers]

Hi all,

I have downloaded the anti spam ACP but how do I install it on my forum???

regards

K

[terryzx]

Once the edits are made you need to set it up in module management

Configure the Anti-Spam Settings in the ACP->.MODS->Anti-Spam

There should have been better instructions as that can be a pain to do if you have not done it before