Save me from spam!
Drupppal - March 30, 2009 - 12:15
I get automated bots registering accounts on my site almost on daily bases. Is there a way to put an end to this or than taking the obvious CAPTCHA module route.
I personally dislike CAPTCHAs and wouldn't want to impose it on visitors. So is there anything else I can do to deter these bots from registering accounts? Such as hiding the registration page, etc...
Registering accounts is all they do, but they can't log on or do anything else since I've set registration to email verification. Nonetheless, it's annoying seeing my User filled up with fake accounts.
Any suggestions?
Try Mollom
This is a very professionally done prduct. Set up an account download install and span goes to nothing. Gies option of using CAPTCHA or not.
Could you please repeat that
Could you please repeat that clearly. It sounds like a good advise but I honestly don't understand what you mean.
try mollom.module it is a
try mollom.module
it is a service that checks for spam in comments ,registration etc and when i catches spam it displays a capcha
and u can enable email verifying for new accounts
im usually a good guy,plz dont ban me
CAPTCHA
You could add a required profile field and include it in the registration page, but a script writer can easily adjust to that. You're best off adding a CAPTCHA the registration form. Mollom is a good solution. I've found it 100% effective in stopping bot registrations, and humans have no trouble with it.
You may still get human-powered spam registrants. The advuser module gives you a good tool for getting an overview of recent registrations so you can block spammers, as you can search on profile fields (which is where spammers love to hide their links).
You could add a required
This sounds good. It's worth a try. Could you possibly explain how I can set this up?
If this fails then I can look into other options. But this sounds good. hopefully it'll stop those annoying bots. I'd appreciate it if you explained how to do this.
Other options: Look at the
Other options:
Look at the regcode module (this may be too much, depending on how you run your site, but its a very effective module).
Use recaptcha (a more elegant form of captcha).
Use the terms of use module, so a checkbox has to be checked for registration to work.
There is also an account expire module -- the account is deleted, I believe, if not used for x minutes, hours, days, etc.
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Spamicide
Try the Spamicide module. It works like captcha only it doesn't require user interaction, but neither will stop humans.