Posted by andrea.corelli on December 2, 2012 at 9:36pm
HI all.
I have been using many captcha's inclusing recaptcha and others but it seems that none of them blocks spammers from registering to my website and commenting posts. Now I have blocked comments but I need to find a solution. All the modules I have installed are at their latest version.
Any clues?
Thanks.
Andrea
Comments
I suspect some of the
I suspect some of the spammers are working manually, and preventing signup spam is one of the toughest in my experience. In this case it is impossible to entirely prevent them from registering, and you may need to set registrations to require manual approval by a site administrator. I like to combine Captcha with Honeypot module against bots. For a more complex solution (which I have set up but not used in production) look at Bad Behaviour module.
Another approach is to check where the signups are coming from. If they are mainly from one or two countries you could ban people from those countries' IPs from signing up (or accessing the site at all).
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Re: thanks
Thanks for your tips. Seems hard to believe they are working manually but might be. I am trying your suggestions and will let you know after a week or so of tests.
Thanks again!
Andrea
spammers registering in spite of CAPTCHA
Yes, I'm having that problem too. Hundreds of such registrations per day. I find it hard to believe that someone loves my web site and forum so much that they are hand-registering another bogus registration every 5 minutes, but that seems to be what is happening.
About sources:
mailinator.com
yandex.??
mail.ru
in fact, anything from Russia, Poland, or Romania is almost certainly spammers.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can block entire countries by IP number.
Banning IP ranges is not hard
Banning IP ranges is not hard at server level. It is also possible at Drupal level http://drupal.org/project/ip_ranges
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