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1. ZGJ
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   I had 5 "spam" users register on my blog.

   Both these options were on/checked:
   Anyone can register
   Users must be registered and logged in to comment

   I just turned off/unchecked anyone can register when I read them.

   New user registration on your blog <blog name>:

   Username: yhgtfrty

   E-mail: yhgtfrty@gmail.com

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   New user registration on your blog <blog name>:

   Username: iuytrtyui

   E-mail: iuytrtyui@gmail.com

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   New user registration on your blog <blog name>:

   Username: kujyhtgrt

   E-mail: kujyhtgrt@gmail.com

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   New user registration on your blog <blog name>:

   Username: jhgfdfghe

   E-mail: jhgfdfghe@gmail.com

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   New user registration on your blog <blog name>:

   Username: wertgfdd

   E-mail: wertgfdd@gmail.com

   those are the 5 e-mails. I know in phpbb (forum software) I can make it so users who register have to activate their accounts by clicking a link on an e-mail they received.

2. ZGJ
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   oops, forgot, those were the e-mails I get when a new user gets registered. In a way it is good, that my site/blog is good enough for spammers....it's out there, that's only 1%, the rest is bad bad bad.

   As far as I am aware, all WP based sites/blogs have the following url:

   http://www.domain.com/<directory>/wp-login.php?action=register or if it's installed on the root directory: http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?action=register

   So how can I slow down these random spam registrations? all those 5 new "users" were registered at the same time.

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