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peterplumber
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Have the spammers broken CAPTHA? After installing CAPTHA a few years ago the spam was kept to a contolable minimum. But within the last week to so I am now getting 20 or more spam posts a day. I am still using V 2.4.3 Is there anything new in V2.4.4 that I should install?

What do the spammers even got out of posting things like, "Incredibly interesting, looking forth to visiting again. "
and, "Thanks for the purpose of supplying like superb content. ", etc.?

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Carbonize
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The post it's self is rubbish. They are either just trying to boost the websites search engine ranking or just hoping that the more places they have a link the more chance of people visiting.

A quick look at this sites own guestbook shows that the captcha isn't working.

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peterplumber
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Carbonize wrote:

A quick look at this sites own guestbook shows that the captcha isn't working.


What can be done? Is it finally time for me to switch to Lazarus?
Carbonize
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Could try 2.4.4 see if he's added anything. I could probably write a mod for AG to implement my header checks.

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