How do you stop spammers?

I get tons of signups on my site and have to delete all of them.

is there a way to disable signups

if you have v5 you have an option in your admin settings to have people verify your email . I found alot of them used dud emails

ya i have v5 ,but there also spamers comes ,Eg in mail id ***@163.com like this , how can we give more against to spammers?

Here is some thing, i am going to try this.

But dont know if it´s working

http://jcowmaster.net/forums/viewthread/553

I can't view that thread. Is there a way to turn registration off!

the spam makes the program unusable.

All the registrations from spammers im getting are from gmail

go to member.module.php
function signup
find this code

[code]
if (!$resp->is_valid) {
$captchaerror = $resp->error;
$errors[] = t('Wrong Verification code');
}
[/code]

put this code after that
[code]
if (!$_POST['security_question'] || $_POST['security_question'] != 'PUT UR ANSWER HERE' ) {
$errors[] = t('You must answer security question correctly!');
}
[/code]
change this in the code PUT UR ANSWER HERE with your answer

find this code

[code]
<tr class="row1">
<td>'.t('Image verification').'</td><td>
'.recaptcha_get_html($captcha['publickey'],$captchaerror).'
</td>
</tr>
[/code]

put this code after that

[code]
<tr class="row1">
<td>'.t('Security Question:').'</td>
<td>PUT HERE YOUR QUESTION?

<input type="text" name="security_question"/>
</td>
</tr>
[/code]

change this in the code PUT HERE YOUR QUESTION?

This is for the free version
i do not know if this work on other versions
credit to
[url]http://jcowmaster.net/forums/viewthread/553[/url]