The anti-spam question is already part of 2.5.2, all you have to do is enable it.

I haven't looked too far into what it would take to make the stop forum spam mod work with 2.5.2. There are quite a few edits to the mod that would have to be done from what i saw. Since the mod was not written by me, I can't do these edits and release it but I'm sure Derek will, once he has a chance.

I use both anti-spam and spam fruits on my forum and they work really well. I've had less than 5 spamtards get through in the past year. If possible, try to use a question unique to your forum.

You can have a look at my register page and see what I've done to stop them in thier tracks.

http://www.segnette.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=register

With the right PERL modules online I have now installed this.

Will be interesting to see the error logs now as to what catches them first.

Thanks Derek

Derek Bullock wrote on Feb 11^th, 2013 at 5:11am:

That's always been the case with iPads. Nobody using an iPad will be able to see the CAPTCHA verification code.

It does appear on iPods however.

Derek, I actually disabled the others just to see and notice 6 spammers stopped in the last couple of hours.

Very nice mod.

Thanks again

I've attached a new mod file for the YaBB 2.5.2 version to the first post - there was an issue with the text in the admin language file being added to the Anti-spam Questions section. Thanks to xnoddyx for pointing it out.

If you don't want to install the mod again, in Languages/English/Admin.lng find:

);

# Anti-spam Question Settings
%spam_question_txt = ( 

And add before:

'stopforumspam' => 'StopForumSpam',
'stopforumspam_header' => 'These settings allow you to check the <a href="http://www.stopforumspam.com/" target="_blank">StopForumSpam.com</a> database for Usernames, IP Addresses and Email Addresses on registration, guest posting, broadcast message, alert moderator and send topic. If any details match a spammers details in their database then registration or guest posting will not be allowed. You can also allow Administrators to submit details to the database when spammers get through who haven\'t already been submitted (you will need an API Key from their website for the submit feature to work).',
'stopforumspam_modules' => 'The folowing modules are missing which need to be installed before you can enable these settings:', 

You can then remove the above code from before:

);

# RSS Settings
%rss_txt = ( 

Again, this only affects the 2.5.2 version, and not the 2.5.

Hi,

Check to see if the changes have been made to Admin/NewSettings.pl and that you have definitely uploaded it. That's the only thing I can think of which would make it behave like that.