technobill wrote:Now, I think phpBB can utilize CAPTCHA forms on registration. Would this not kill any entry attempts to be made by spam bots in the future?
We already have that one available
But most bots can "read" such images. One of the best ways to secure a forum right now is the use of random questions. Like: "how many Es has the word FlightGear" or "How is our simulator called?". As long as you use questions that aren't (often) used on other forums the bots won't be able to deal with them...
Liam wrote:If force users to enter a text verification thing on creation of a topic, not for posting, but for creation of new topics.
Then the bots will just post in existing topics. They're like real life virusses. They will addapt...
bisutti wrote:But I wonder.. How could this happend? I mean.. so many spam topics in a few days?
Those "members" are bots that are programmed to automaticly create topics with a certain content (links/spam). As long as the bot is alive, it will keep on creating topics. So we have to destroy it (remove the account) and defence ourself to stop them next time.