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[Scott Wolpow]

Are you using Captcha? If so, it is humans, I would block att .ru IP's. 
But they may still have Zombies out there.

SW

On 4/1/2009 8:57 AM, Laura Gordon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a client in 1.0.15...
>
> 1. Registration was allowed
> 2. we were getting lots of fake registrations from the ip of 
> churchelo.info
> 3. I blocked their ip from accessing the site
> 4. they kept on doing it
> 5. removed registration
> 6. finally it stopped
>
> Now, I turned it back on this weekend, now she is getting fake 
> registrations again, here is a sample:
> Hello The Childrens School of Yoga,
>
> A new User has registered at The Childrens School of Yoga.
> This e-mail contains their details:
>
> Name - TilsOPPOPEsok
> E-mail - unesserty at mail.ru
> Username - TilsOPPOPEsok
>
> Any idea how I can block the new registartions, but allow her legal 
> contacts to register via virtuemart (I turned on the 'back end 
> registration' through virtuemart, so they aren't using the regular 
> registration page...I was hoping that would help.
>
>
> thanks,
> Laura
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