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Xan1977
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Post by Xan1977 » 2006-05-07 07:52

2Rulez###, there are a few joined in the last couple weeks, at pretty regular intervals.

It seems this is a phpbb forum registration bot that joins with the only intention of getting its profile's WWW link on the memberlist, which is public and gets crawled by search engines. The fix is visual confirmation on signups.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=386382
Or changing the names of the registration variables.
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1404100

GargoyleMT
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Post by GargoyleMT » 2006-05-07 14:02

I turned the visual confirmation on. I want to purge all accounts that have not been activated or posted for years - I'll look for a mod that will let me do some of that easier.

Thanks, Xan.

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