I’ve been having difficulty upgrading one of my phpBB2 forums to phpBB3. For some reason it is dying on one of the import steps. Due to this, the forum is going to need to remain at v2 for a while yet. The problem is that it is getting attacked RUTHLESSLY by spammers and spam-bots. I have tried a few different methods of curbing them, but none have been very effective. I have just implemented a new countermeasure though that appears to be working pretty well thus far. It is called Anti-Spam ACP 2.0.9 and my initial reaction is that it is doing wonders. Within the first few minutes the logfiles showed 20-30 blocked spambot user registrations.

Is this solution 100%? I doubt it. Nothing beats a good team of Forum Moderators, but it most certainly can help! Another Mod I highly recommend is a Delete User and Posts mod, but i can’t for the life of me remember where I found it for certain. This MAY be it:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=29821

The Humanizer is another good one, but didn’t quite get the job done like Anti-Spam ACP appears to be. Hopefully I’ll be able to ditch phpBB2 soon so that I can move on to phpBB3’s new anti-spam measures.

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