Question on keeping the bad guys out - support

4 Feb 2014

      I like hidden-captcha  a lot. It's invisible to visitors but is pretty 
effective against bots. I have one bot a day that gets through.
I've also added a mandatory profile question. The label on mine just 
says "say something so i know you're real". The bots insert junk.
If you have a commercial site, CDN and DDoS blocking services like 
Cloudflare and DosArrest block bots because the bots don't have the same 
connection signature. Plus you get the performance upgrades of a CDN and 
site monitoring.
-- 
-Don Pickerel-
Fane Software

I am working on a new site (Drupal 7) and I have reCaptcha module 
installed which includes the image captcha as well. This still isn't 
keeping out the gnats trying to get logins. I have the site set that all 
new users need to verified with a valid email and the admin needs to 
authorize the new user but it still hasn't stopped them. I am looking 
for other ideas where I can limit these issues. I am getting about 15 a 
day and they seem to be growing.
I have a few mandatory fields setup but I don't want to make it totally 
a pain for new users to put in the valid info.

This might be just a cost of having the thing open for new users but if 
anyone can give me some other ideas on how to stem the tide I would 
appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
John J. Boris, Sr.
Online Services
www.onlinesvc.com http://www.onlinesvc.com