Board registration reopened.

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I have disabled new accounts from being made due to spambots. They've popped up in abundance and changing the capcha didn't help. Email me jddgames /\t yahoo.com for site registration until further notice.

Also someone help me out here, does adding an IP ban and then deleting the account invalidate the IP ban?
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And even then, A couple of spammers still appeared, There is still nothing to do about prevention, They will find some way to hack around.

One is Russian, Other is English oriented!

EDIT: Try backing up the forum's files, Then shutting down the forums until something is resolved, This should be a temporary fix until we figure something out!
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It seems all these accounts that crop up ever so often to spam were registered before the new account suspension. Fortunately it doesn't seem like they're getting around the shutdown. This appeared like a wave, and there wasn't anything changing the type of bot defense did, so it must have been a deeper sort of exploit, that's why I just shut it down. There seems to be a new phpbb version just above ours, but I'm not in a position to implement it, nor do I know if it will help.
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I have temporarily lowered the shields, to see if the storm is still raging outside. All accounts made in November have been deleted.

Smzx: I have admin status on the boards, but not access to the actual files of z2. I can really only take countermeasures limited to the forum.
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Tomorrow when I'm on my computer with the FTP info I will correct that.
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