: How can I reduce the number of spammers registering with my phpBB site? I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have enabled user authentication through email when registering enabled

I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have

enabled user authentication through email when registering
enabled captcha

However I still get spam users every 20 to 30 minutes.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this with the ucp.php file?

I have already loaded a large list of IP addresses yet there are spam users registering all the time.

One thing I can do is I can check the bounce mail to find the username and can pipe bounced mails to a php script and immediately delete that user, but I have not got any bounce back from hotmail or some other email clients.

So this way it will catch hold of a certain percent of spam users but there are still a huge amount of users spamming.

What else can I do to prevent spammers abusing my phpBB site?

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@Lee4591628

a silly thought did the trick.

what i did was just renamed the files which i felt were used frequently and commonly and now there is not even one spammer in the past 15 days.

hehe. oh pity my mind... i have been thinking of other alternatives like keycaptcha and others...

anyway this is temporary i think if the hacker knows what changes i made or if he particularly attacks my site then still the problem exists but for now i am free.

oh my goodness. i dont know what to say.

I did edit the following.

memberlist.php, viewtopic.php, viewforum.php, ucp.php, viewonline.php and feel free to modify what ever files you wish are vulnerable.

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The first thing to do is make sure your version is up to date, you can check this in the ACP.

If it is up to date then there are a wealth of anti-spam mods you could install, find which one is the best for you.

Finally something I did (but the setup took some time to get right) was to run my site via CloudFlare which managed to stop a lot of spammy page requests at source.

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