Well, I was sending in my homework, and it was taking FOREVER for it to go through. In the process, I got distracted looking at the information on bandwidth for some of my sites that I manage. I found that one, my brother’s for his book Redonn had a surge of traffic this month. I found this odd since I didn’t think that he had been doing much work on it. I then noticed that a lot of the traffic (most) was bots. This is never a good sign… So I found myself in the forum with a forum filled with spam. Needless to say I went through and deleted all of the spam messages, and I also deleted the users(22 of them! and 12 from September)I needed to come up with a fix to make it more difficult for “bots” to access the website. I of course started with a google search and found this article.
I did make a few changes to his setup as I used two questions, and I made them different from the one he used. The one can’t be answered by a search engine if they could manage to get that into the bot, or a bot that does math… 😉 Anyway, the hope is that we won’t have any more spam on the forum, and I thought that I would point anyone who is interested back at that post – it is a bit out of date, but it worked great for me!
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