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Started by aftab1003, April 10, 2009, 11:23:20 PM

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aftab1003

hi fellows and mods.

i am running the 1.4.19 with latest manual updates at...

http://picturerating.us/picture-gallery/index.php (adult content warning)

i am getting over 2400 pageloads per day, and all is working fine.

today i check the ecard portion in admin menu, there are 6500 ecards sent... ???

and all these cards are spammed, mean stuppid serial type email addresses like
abc@yahoo.com
abc1@yahoo.com
abc2@yahoo.com
and so on...

i am here to ask if some one also have this situation?
is there any way to prevent this spam?
any way to add captcha type security for human verification?

thanks for replies.

Joe Carver


aftab1003

thanks i-imagine.

i am using the visual captcha for comments, but may be i am not updated this mod for other features. i see the recomended page and its looks great and will helpful for me.

i will update the captch mod and come back here again and report the results,
till then...

@mods
dont lock this thread if possible, i will do it my self.

thanks for quick responce.

Joachim Müller

Quote from: aftab1003 on April 10, 2009, 11:41:01 PM
@mods
dont lock this thread if possible, i will do it my self.
You can't lock threads here, that's beyond your privileges.