Just got spammed!

[oldjags]

I've been using Anti-Spam for almost a year, and it's been working great. Now, all of a sudden, I've had 10 -12 successful attacks in the past week, all apparently from Russia. I'm using the latest versions of phpBB (2.0.22)and Anti-Spam ACP, so I'm not sure if the bots have figured out a way in or if I've got something else going on.

[EXreaction]

Are they posting on your forums?

The bots have continued to change and get better, there is only so much you can do to stop them.

You may want to look into this:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 6&t=393606

[oldjags]

Yes, they are posting on the site. A combination of porn, drugs, and such, all accounts with email addresses ending in @mail.ru. Looking at the spam logs, they're almost getting the CAPTCHA code right a couple of times before they finally succeed.

Is there any benefit in switching to the better CAPTCHA option?

[EXreaction]

You could ban the @mail.ru domain...

The captcha could be replaced, but OCR programs are getting more and more advanced, I doubt that any human readable captcha will hold out for long anymore.

I'd take a look at the link I gave you, you can add spam words to the list, words that will not be allowed in a post, so you could ban the names of the drugs that they were posting.

[diskwizz]

Is a shame, my boards have started to get attacked over the last 3 weeks also. Antispam was the best by miles at stopping them.

[george]

I don't think why people do that while they know that Mods will delete their messages.