How do i stop this nonsense?

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In the past week and a half to two weeks i have had five new members register at my forums.

http://the-spot.uni.cc/forum/index.php

BUT...

...they are basically 'spam' (for lack of a more appropriate word) as all of them have a link to a porn website, spam website or a site which puts a virus on your computer (as i found out - but my virus scanner detected and got rid of it, as soon as i went to the site, in under a minute). I have removed all links from the signatures though.

All of them have forum language set to Russian if that means anything.

Anywho. I deleted the first one. Banned the second one (username) and since then three more have registered. I thought about an IP ban but not sure how/where to find the IP address?

I know this is in the wrong forum, but it is sort of urgent as there are young people who visit/post in my forums and i would like to know how to stop all this.
 
That sounds like bots to me. Most sites use image verification to stop automated services from joining forums, although I don't think that's a feature in phpBB. :(
 
Oh bugger. :/

Ah well. I've changed some settings and now all account activations have to be done by me first, although somehow i don't think that will stop them registering.

Thank you anyway sir. :)
 
We had a spell like that over at msgp, but it seems to have stopped. I don't remember what Stu did, or even if it was something he did that stopped it, but I do know how annyoying it can be. He just deleted any fairly obvious examples :|
 
Yeah i think it has stopped at The Spot too. :)
One easy way to tell is to go into their profile (in the Admin section) and see what they have set the language to.
 
How about instead of letting them register, you actually make the account for them so that you know that they are actually people ;) My teacher did that for a school forum...
 
I've enabled Administrator verification for my phpBB forums. An admin (me) has to acknowledge the user's desire to create an account or else they can't even see the boards. Kind of lame security but it works.
 
Yeah, unfortunately it didn't work. They still register but need account verification to post - and they don't post. :/
 
No thanks. phpBB is much easier to use for me and if i upgraded at all it would be straight to vBulletin.
 

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