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Ever since upgrading to phpBB3, pretty much right after it came out, we had no spam problems, but as others have said, we just started getting them filtering in over the last week or so. Has there been some new strategy for bots which recently came about?
I'm not complaining, I know security can never be airtight, I'm just wondering why there are all of a sudden new bots in the last couple weeks that didn't get through before?
I have had phpbb3 since Aug 2008. All of a sudden this week I have been BOMBARDED with spammers (I had never had even one before this). Once they logged in as admin and I could not access the ACP. Hours later I was able to get in and change my passwords. I have done everything to try and stop them. ban ips, blacklist ips, CAPTCHA, and now I have to manually approve each new member (which really sucks when you are trying to get traffic, let alone ask people to wait for an approval) Can anyone please help? I know phpbb says it was not a phpbb issue, but a phplist (. ) issue, but I do not understand. Another post said other "BIG" forums arent having any problems and that it is a script problem. seems strange that the main phpbb site was attacked since they are "BIG". Sorry, my site was built for me so I do not understand the technical stuff! I know this is a free open source forum so I cant really complain but would it help to just purchase some forum software instead of using free phpbb? Not too stoked on shelling out more cash after I just paid to build my site in Aug! PLEASE HELP. THANKS.
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