How to deal with spam through contact us on forum

**ARealRedneck** · 06-26-2007, 07:56 PM

I have been receiving a lot of spam from my forum's contact us...

How do i stop this? Is there another hack i can add to make it difficult to send this by

e-mail?

**Michael Biddle** · 06-26-2007, 08:34 PM

Well make sure you enable the image verification for it

**ARealRedneck** · 06-27-2007, 03:00 AM

Ok, well I checked the setting's and image verification is on and is set to GD (True Type Font)..

So i went to test it to send myself a e-mail..

No image verification shows up..

So I went back, and changed it to GD (Simple Font) vBulletin doesn't recommend this setting..

I went back to test and still no image verfication so I pushed send..

This is what I got after both e-mails were sent to get back to the forum I just pushed my link in my favorites..

Quote:

Warning: vB_Registry::include(/home/unitcox5/public_html/cb-ham-radio-forum/cb-ham-radio-forum/includes/config.php) [function.vB-Registry-include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/unitcox5/public_html/cb-ham-radio-forum/cb-ham-radio-forum/includes/class_core.php on line 2394

Warning: vB_Registry::include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/unitcox5/public_html/cb-ham-radio-forum/cb-ham-radio-forum/includes/config.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/unitcox5/public_html/cb-ham-radio-forum/cb-ham-radio-forum/includes/class_core.php on line 2394

Configuration: includes/config.php does not exist. Please fill out the data in config.php.new and rename it to config.php

Plus I also got both test e-mails......

EDIT: I logged out of my forum and tried the contact us....it works perfectly with image verification and everything...and also returns to the forum after it is sent.