Topic-icon Bots Bypassing Captcha

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12 years 11 months ago #34264 by chrski
Running the latest version of JFBConnect with Joomla 2.5

I have the SCLogin module enabled and am running reCaptcha within Joomla configured under the Global Settings section.
The captcha is appearing on the login module when you try and create a new login to the site, however bots still seem to be getting past this and creating accounts.

What would cause this?
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12 years 11 months ago #34270 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Bots Bypassing Captcha
Chris,
Captcha is not something that JFBConnect implements. We support it and will check the captcha, but if bots are bypassing it, it's not a problem in JFBConnect, it simply means that the bots (or humans) are able to answer your captchas.

There's nothing we can do in JFBConnect to fix this. What I'd recommend is using something like SpamBotCheck which doesn't require captcha at all and instead looks up the user's IP or email on remote services to check if they're known to be spammers and denies them that way.

I hope that helps,
Alex
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