Spam attack?

[iPlayer]

I mean, there were 1-2 new registered members a day at best, today there're about 20, all with 0 posts, weird names etc...

EDIT: They're posting links on their profiles

[Ayuto]

Yeah, I noticed that as well. I'm going to ban them soon.

[stonedegg]

Could you add this captcha, it's the safest there is: https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=257294

[satoon101]

We were using KeyCaptcha when this spam attack started. We moved to using something else, and it has slowed the spam attack down some, though it obviously is still happening. We have a few plans in the works that will cause a lot of changes around here, soon. Hopefully you will see those within the next few weeks.

[iPlayer]

Plugin manager confirmed?

I remember when I had spam on my forums, I went with security through obscurity - installed a board plugin which changed fields ID's and names on registration page.
E.g.

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<input type="text" name="username" ... 

became

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<input type="text" name="field1" ... 

and to confuse the bots, it also added fake non-working fileds like

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<input type="hidden" name="username" ... 

The problem was solved.