Need some help with SPAM

[griffinzx10]

thanks, i just installed the reCaptcha image verifacation, i hope that works a little better.

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This past year so far my site has been getting bombarded with spam. In a given 24 hour period i have been getting anywhere from 50-75 spam accounts daily.

I have the site set up to do image...

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Again, I thank you Steve for your help....

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Thank you for the response as always Steve.

My question is this, i have not changed ANYTHING in my config.php file in years, I dont change much on the site other than adding some hacks...

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The past month i have been getting more and more of these errors, the hosting company told me that it could be a corruption in my database...

Database error in vBulletin :
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Last weekend my side was down for several hours, and i received about 4000 mysql database errors. I did not make any changes and my site is hosted on a virtual server. The error i received is below....

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excellent thank you very much

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I tried searching for this, but maybe my wording is wrong. I have added a new section that has RSS Feeds, and i want to keep those RSS feed threads from showing under the new posts. Is there a way I...

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Thanks

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NO NO NO, i never meant to imply that, and if i did, i do apologize. I guess what i meant was, (and forgive me for NOT making this clear the first time) was by having an active VB license, does that...

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Steve, not to stir the pit, but dont you think that it is weird that all last year, i had an active license, and was able to upgrade my VB all year long I had virtually NO spammers, and now some 30-60...

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I have a general question regarding Vbulletin. last year i upgraded my site to version 3.73 and during the year the site ran fine and i never had any problems with spam accounts. Well just recently...

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thanks...

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bump

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Bump

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Once you create template or sub-template, is it possible to change the name from the orginal name??

Thanks...

[griffinzx10]

HA!!!!!!!!! GOT IT, i created the second template like you siad, and started making changes on it, and copying some of the custom templates, i had, and found the problem in the Header template.
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[griffinzx10]

ok sounds good, and thank you soooo very much for the assistance i really appreciate it......

[griffinzx10]

WOW... is there an easy way to do that?? I am guess no?

I was considering adding some some tempalates anyway, could that be a quick and easy fix?

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Thanks Wayne, i did what you mentioned, created a test new style with no parent, and the profile tabs show up in IE, so i guess now i need to compare the code btwn the 2 MEMBERINFO templates right?