New anti-spam tools coming

[chris-TMO]

So I put up a freebie board for a site that I am working on for my wife and I's new business...trettalpc.com. It's a simple machines forum which is the follow on product from what used to be YABB which we ran prior to going to VBulletin. Now I haven't done anything to the forum other than install it. It's been up for a while now, but just an empty shell. It has the following - all from spam:
18461 Posts in 13621 Topics by 24318 Members

The funny part is that there were a maximum of 58 members online yesterday...all spammers.

Wow.
Ct..

 

[countrygirl32082]

Those people obviously have too much free time.

 

[Shrimpburrito]

Wow, that is just incredible. Roughly how long had the site been live?

Dave

 

[rumbleweed]

Most of them are probably not real people, but spam bots. I manage a local church group food bank site here and was getting 10-20 new members and posts per day (98% of which were from Russia and India). Tried lots of things then finally disabled online registration. As it is a small group of people that so post I manually add them and rest of the users use it as read only which works fine.

 

[chris-TMO]

Just a couple of weeks. Pretty sad.
Ct..

Wow, that is just incredible. Roughly how long had the site been live?

Dave