Avoiding Spam/captchas...

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Monday, July 30. 2007

Avoiding Spam/captchas...

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With the release of new 'script kiddie' software such as XRumer which looks like it can detect and get past a lot of captcha's. What can you do against it? Remember to change the image dimensions and other attributes from their default settings - this simple step greatly reduced the amount of spam on some of my forums.
Posted by Kris Sum in Tech at 18:08 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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