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    Spam

    Recently I'm experiencing a lotof spam, overpassing the recaptcha, once registered the bot create a photo album and spam on it's description. I just switched from recaptcha to the Question & Answer Verification system.. hopefully it will work better.
    All this registration/spam are from Russia.
    ANyone having the same problem? any thoughts?

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    I see you just replied to the other thread about the GreenHorn group. Try that out for a few days and see what happens.

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    Yes, I just implemented that and so far it's working good. Thanks Brian

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdamFL View Post
    Yes, I just implemented that and so far it's working good. Thanks Brian

    I have about 1600 banned ips you can have

    That's from a few sites. LOL

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    When my username turns blue then I have to worry about banning 1600 IPs, I wish lol
    Anyway, so far the newcomers group is working for me so it's all good.

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