Hi

My site( www.eyst.co.uk) is under considerable strain following some spammer targeting my site with automated user registration. It is such time consuming to deal with this problem, So I had to close user registrations.

Do you have any Ideas to combat this kind of spam.

Cheers
Sreeram Penna

Comments

ano1’s picture

You might want to try out the captcha module http://drupal.org/project/captcha and textimage http://drupal.org/project/textimage . These add two options to your registration page. Either a math problem that must be answered or an image with characters in it that the user must type into a text box before they are registered on your site. Hope this helps you.

Ano1

Christefano-oldaccount’s picture

I second ano1's advice. The captcha module has worked flawlessly on my sites (so far [fingers crossed]).

The textimage module is optional, by the way. Without the textimage module, the captcha module displays a maptcha (math problem) instead.

srrpenna’s picture

Thanks for advice captcha seem to work the trick, but even after I did install text module I cant see the text image so I am using cpata now