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Strange users (5 posts)

  1. flipnet
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Hi,

    I have the following problem. Since a few days i have random users without roles popping up in my user list. This are usualy random user names but sometimes user names that refer to a website.

    Has anyone encountered this problem before and more importantly how can it be solved?

    Regards,

    Erwin

  2. ericmann
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Follow these two steps:
    1) Delete the users
    2) Turn off user registration on your blog

    If you still want people to be able to create accounts, add a Captcha plug-in to prevent bots from creating random users on your blog.

  3. esmi
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Captchas aren't worth the effort. Most can be broken pretty easily.

    http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/06/breaking-captchas/

  4. flipnet
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    A the thing was that the registration was disabled. Unfortunantly the blog is broken now :p need reinstall . Thanks for the reply though

  5. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    flipnet, what site are you refferring to?

    http://josephsmarr.com <-- is THAT it?

    thats running version 2.0.7

    and needs to upgraded after someone making sure whats there is clean.

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