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They will not stop signing up?

Author: J.Wrangler (9 Apr 11 4:14pm)

Hello,
I recently installed a honeypot on my SMF board. It seemed to work because I helped catch 5 people in 2 days, however, I keep getting people who are spammers that keep signing up? Why isn't http:bl blocking them? I swear, I could help catch hundreds of spammers if Honeypot setup special targeting on my website. I get about 20 a day new on the list. Please help me? They will not stop signing up.

Thanks,
J.Wrangler

Re: They will not stop signing up?

Author: WEBSupport (11 Apr 11 2:21am)

Your problem is well known and there are solutions. See our post here: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/board/read.php?f=8&i=283&t=283

Re: They will not stop signing up?

Author: J.Eaton (6 Aug 11 9:01pm)

Hi J.Wrangler, I also run an smf forum, go to the smf website mods area and download the two mods listed below. Trust me they work very well, one better than the other but they do work very well.

Bad behaviour mod works with your honeypot api
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2502

HTTPBL
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2155

Both support version 1.11-1.14 and 2.0RC 3 to 2.0 gold

As a guide the threat level default is 25, through experience I have found 8 to be good, but have set it to ten. You will understand this when you install the mods.

Any further assistance on these mods contact Zaphod on http://tgsquad.com forums

Goodluck.