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Never mind, cup of coffee and it became clear.

Thanks

my aplogies 3.0.2
could you point me to where, I looked thru manage forum and seemed to missed it

first back up daily
next go thru all passwords and make all admin passwords a minimum of 12 characters
like
This!is$my#pAsSw0rd
the 0 = zero

I have a new top forum I wish to put current forums under.
ver 3.2
is there a built in tool or do I have to do from the DB side.

Thanks
also made new profile admin approval.

I have 3.02 the spammers is able to post without registration and bypasses the captcha here is the log of the spammer 201.229.208.2 - - [07/Feb/2009:17:34:36 -0500] "GET /automation/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=3b06548df8e9f5f5dded6216e11e217c HTTP/1.1" 200 32498 "http://www.businessesne...

if you have a apache server you can add a .htacess file to the folder were the phpbb root is.
then just put
Deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
if you want to ban a complete class C 0-255 address space
then
Deny from xxx.xxx.xxx

then they do not even get to the forum.

for those that can block IP's
there is class C block of spam bots that hit my forums every 4 min.
194.8.75
for apache servers just do a deny from 194.8.75
in a .htacess file.
they will get a 403 (forbiden error) and it saves bandwidth.
this month so far 8K + 403.