Getting tooooooooo much spam :(

[meSingh]

These days i am getting too much spam. I have tried recaptcha, and question/answers. But none is working.

I have searched the forums and but found nothing working.

Is there anything, that can help me to fight with these spam bots?

 

[Andy.N]

sonnb addon.
Xenutiles

 

[Brandon Sheley]

honestly.. not really other then moderating new users

I have pretty tight protection and it does stop 99%, but I still see accounts every day get through.

Maybe I just haven't found the right combo yet

 

[Shelley]

Have you tried Chris Deemings add-on. Judging by the responses it's been very affective. http://xenforo.com/community/resources/registration-form-timer.1248/

 

[Coop1979]

This has been great for me. And it's an easy way to monetize the sign-up page:

http://solvemedia.com/publishers/?utm_source=Widget+Help&utm_medium=captcha&utm_campaign=Help+Page

 

[meSingh]

This has been great for me. And it's an easy way to monetize the sign-up page:

http://solvemedia.com/publishers/?utm_source=Widget+Help&utm_medium=captcha&utm_campaign=Help+Page

This seems like an interesting thing. But how can i integrate it with Xenforo?

 

[meSingh]

Never mind got it

I have installed SolveMedia and http://xenforo.com/community/resources/registration-form-timer.1248/

Lets see what difference they make.

 

[Slavik]

+1 For Chris Deemings reg form timer.

 

[imlps]

My forum has been spammed and I go with keyCaptcha. Zero spam ever since. Hopefully it continues to be clean.

 

[craigiri]

These days i am getting too much spam. I have tried recaptcha, and question/answers. But none is working.

I have searched the forums and but found nothing working.

Is there anything, that can help me to fight with these spam bots?

You need ALL the tools - the reg form timer, connection to the forum spam stopping services and a good QA or captcha. You can also decide to not let certain countries in..which I think is good unless your forum really has folks from those countries!

After all of that, looking at the first post (moderate) can catch any who get through.

 

[Kim]

I recently discovered the very best and simplest thing I have found to counter spam registrations... http://spam-service.block8.co.uk/

It is a service which utilises the Stop Forum Spam, and their own database to basically kill registrations before they even happen, since installing it a few days ago I have had no registrations from bots, after being literally bombarded previously.

Dan Cryer is the author, I have known him for years and years from our Invision days, he worked for IPS for a while too.

 

[Pipelin]

Also my suggestion is to use incapsula. It is like cloudflare but much better because you can configure to not show annoying captchas and pages when visitors have some issues with your forum. Also incapsula have list of bad bots that and will block spammers.
Also you need only to change dns to your cpanel to use incapsula + there are some features that will slightly increase forum speed by caching (CDN). Configuration is super easy!
IMPORTANT! Incapsula free package offer 50gb monthly bandwith! check packages here:
http://www.incapsula.com/pricing-and-plans/compare-all-plans
Below is screenshot of my incapsula blocked bots log.