I love the spammers.

[Cringer]

I am getting pretty damn tired of all the spam accounts registering lately. It is getting a little excesive. Last time I turned of the ability to register and it calmed down some for a while, so I am doing it again.

If you need to make a new account for press reasons then let Suicane or myself know.

[Kobeck]

Do you have to delete them yourself to keep the board from being affected?

[Cringer]

Do you have to delete them yourself to keep the board from being affected?

Suicane or I, whoever has admin powers. I already had it so any new accounts had to be activated, so they atleast couldn't post and I could just delete them. But now it's just annoying the hell out of me, we have had a good 20 spam accounts over the last 2 weeks. At the very least.

[Coder]

Doesn't look like this is working.. unless Suicane allowed his pill-pusher to sign up as Donovan..

[Cringer]

Doesn't look like this is working.. unless Suicane allowed his pill-pusher to sign up as Donovan..

Yeah, stupid me. The best I can do is how I have had it. They can register accounts, but they need to be activated. Can't turn off registering all the way.

Oh well. :?

[Suicane]

Ban them and have sex with their mothers!

[Coder]

Any idea if there's an update to phpBB regarding these things? Some sort of security-fix or something, since I can't imagine these spammers manually finding all these boards and registering, thus there might be some security-hole that's being exploited.

[Cringer]

Any idea if there's an update to phpBB regarding these things? Some sort of security-fix or something, since I can't imagine these spammers manually finding all these boards and registering, thus there might be some security-hole that's being exploited.

Our board is on the latest version of phpBB (which is why I can't get my HTML BBcode to work again). I could do some digging for a mod that would allow me to turn off signing up completely or something I guess. I have never looked into it.

[George W Bush]

the way I disable account registrations is to go into the 'disallow names' part of the control pannel, and just put in the wildcard character (*) as the only thing. That won't let anyone register.

[Cringer]

the way I disable account registrations is to go into the 'disallow names' part of the control pannel, and just put in the wildcard character (*) as the only thing. That won't let anyone register.

cool. that should work then. thanks.