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    Odd new forum members?

    I help admin a small, non computer related, forum.
    - Recently we have had a large numbers of spoof members.
    - They seam to have almost plausable usernames and the like, but all have the occupation of "google".
    - We have 'recognise this text' box, but they seam to be able to fill this in.
    - Fortuntly, as yet, non of them seam to have replyed to the validation emial, so cant as yet post.

    However, they are cluttering up the place, and nobody seams to know what/who they are?

    Has anyone else exprenced this problem before, only seams to have started recently.

    The forum uses Invision powerboard software by the way.


    Daniel

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    tell web crawlers where to go if you dont want them looking..

    http://webseodesign.com/resources/robots-txt-files.htm

    i have a robots.txt to tell em all to stay out the forums, hope it helps

    8edit

    also have a look in the admin CP uner image settings, add more factors to the image library to stop bots making accounts.

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    your "Security Code Confirmation" is well out of date, no wonder there joining.
    see if there is a mod on one of the IPB support forums to bring it up to date.

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