My site doesn’t require “members” to register and doesn’t even have a registration form. I do have a Freeform contact form, but I don’t think that’s the problem. How are people(mostly spammers I suppose) registering to become members?
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My site doesn’t require “members” to register and doesn’t even have a registration form. I do have a Freeform contact form, but I don’t think that’s the problem. How are people(mostly spammers I suppose) registering to become members?
#2 / Oct 05, 2010 12:52am
hey Mike!
check this link
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/166496/
if you go yoursite.com/index.php/member/register
you can see how if you haven’t changed the name of your member directory, a backlink bot can find that you use ee and go to that url and register, then leave comment spam or whatever.
i set my settings so that i had to approve any member
hope that helps
#3 / Oct 05, 2010 8:55am
Thanks for the assist, rokker!
Mike, does that make sense?
#4 / Oct 05, 2010 11:43am
Thanks rokker, I’ll give it a shot!
#5 / Oct 05, 2010 5:43pm
Sounds good. Let us know how it goes, please.