Support » Plugin: Registration Honeypot » Time to update? I got a bot attack even with the honey pot!!

  • pazzaglia

    (@pazzaglia1)


    Justin, I’ve been using this plug-in successfully for probably over three months. Last night, I began to have SPAM Registration attack (about 100+ registrations per hour).

    Nothing I could do would stop it so I had to actually take down my registration page. BTW, the registration page had your plug-in plus Google’s captcha!

    This morning I installed Wang Guard and made-up my own challenge questions and, at least for the last couple of hours, it has slowed down the SPAM registrations.

    Unfortunately, all of these challenges are pissing off the legitimate people who just want to sign-up.

    Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it appears some bots have worked-around your honey-pot and you may need to update it.

    I would much rather use your up-dated plug-in than to ask 20-questions to every legitimate person!!!

    THANK YOU!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/registration-honeypot/

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  • Plugin Author Justin Tadlock

    (@greenshady)

    As I wrote in the FAQ, this only stops a specific type of spam. It’s not going to work in all situations. Spammers are a bit of a moving target. One day, one type of plugin might stop spammers and another day another type of plugin will work best.

    With that said, I do have one update that I plan on rolling out that should make it a little tougher. However, it’s no guarantee.

    Thread Starter pazzaglia

    (@pazzaglia1)

    Great, thanks I’m looking forward to it!

    Ciao,

    L

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