Dont know where increased hits coming from

[ketanco]

Originally Posted by ptejada

I'm Afraid i believe they do, Before i had bots registering into my forums and even posting advertisements in my forums. And i haven't got one of those in months since i implemented an anti-bot system in the registration form. Incredibly the bots were able to decrypt the captcha image and register.WOW. i know...

I recommend using random question and answer. I do not use captcha at all in my webiste's comment section for news entries. I am afraid, the AI has now solved to captcha thing. If we still follow that route, we will be upto a point that there will be images that no human can solve but only bots.. However if you use random question and answering, you get no bots pass those tests - yet... For example, in the forums section of my site, I had dozens of bot registrations everyday. Once I started to implement question and answering, it stopped suddenly with no more bots at all.

[ptejada]

This Test is not this complicated. There is also a tool from Google called Webmaster Tools. You can actually fetch any page on your domain as a Googlebot and see it as as Googlebot sees it.

So you can make your test page and include a javascript that adds something to the page (Text Preferably ). Fetch this page as a Googlebot and if you see the script did run and returned what it was suppose to return.

There is a quick test you can do yourself to prove if bots trigger JavaScript.

[ptejada]

Originally Posted by ketanco

I recommend using random question and answer. I do not use captcha at all in my webiste's comment section for news entries. I am afraid, the AI has now solved to captcha thing. If we still follow that route, we will be upto a point that there will be images that no human can solve but only bots.. However if you use random question and answering, you get no bots pass those tests - yet... For example, in the forums section of my site, I had dozens of bot registrations everyday. Once I started to implement question and answering, it stopped suddenly with no more bots at all.

Yes, that is what i use now... Since my site authentication is based on my PHPBB forum i got myself a PHPBB mod that did just that and never got those nasty bots ever since.