Improving phpBB2 spam protection

phpBB2 already includes a spam prevention technology in its registration form called CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). This prevents automated robots from registering on your forum. However, the feature can be made much stronger with a simple modification.

An example of CAPTCHA is shown below:

To install this modification, you must be using phpBB 2.0.22.

Upgrade your board immediately for security reasons if it is a lower version.

Follow these steps to install the Visual Confirmation modification:

1. Go to this webpage:
   
   Visual Confirmation Mod
   
   and click on "DOWNLOAD Visual Confirmation (CAPTCHA) 1.0.0"
2. Once the zip file is downloaded, extract it. Open the file MOD-visual_confirmation.txt and follow the instructions inside.
3. Once you have completed the installation process, log out of phpBB and go the registration page. The CAPTCHA image should now look something like this:
   
   
   
   

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