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smpn Registered Member Posts 3 Karma 0	Forum registration image extremely difficult Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:53 am Just an FYI that during forum registration the image CAPTCHA is almost impossible to guess right. It took me over 10 tries. You might want to crank the difficulty down slightly so human beings can pass the test
imported4-jonas Registered Member Posts 35 Karma 0	Re: Forum registration image extremely difficult Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:36 am And now the forum was spammed by some stupid bot... Oh the irony ;)
George Moderator Posts 5421 Karma 1	Re: Forum registration image extremely difficult Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:10 pm Yes the irony, these bots must be getting sophisticated, even nearly unreadable captchas don't seem to help.
MoDaX Registered Member Posts 241 Karma 0 OS	Re: Forum registration image extremely difficult Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:33 pm George wrote:Yes the irony, these bots must be getting sophisticated, even nearly unreadable captchas don't seem to help. Are you sure that they do not keep exploiting a security bug? phpBB copyright years at the bottom are rather old.
George Moderator Posts 5421 Karma 1	Re: Forum registration image extremely difficult Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:30 pm MoDaX wrote: George wrote:Yes the irony, these bots must be getting sophisticated, even nearly unreadable captchas don't seem to help. Are you sure that they do not keep exploiting a security bug? phpBB copyright years at the bottom are rather old. Copyright information is on of those things people tend to forget to update. The current version (3.0.5) is not that old, the latest is 3.0.7 I think. I'm going to upgrade in the weekend. In the mean time I have found a workaround which should prevent bots from registering.