Bill, thanks for trying to help -- I appreciate it. However, the link you give is not applicable here since it's '"Hide Banned Users Profile Page/"Home Page" Link'. This is more about the registration system security. Also, most likely not related to this issue of vBulletin version we're running since no known exploit of that nature has been reported by the vBulletin people, and they're usually good at announcing such problems. It could just be that we're getting more and more popular and appearing the hackers' radar, and will thus experience more break-in attempts than less popular sites, or sites that have not yet drawn their interest.
Having said all that, I've just coded in a fix that should prevent or at least limit this problem, if it's indeed spam bots and not humans (a virtual human/spammer/hacker will have no problem completing the registration requirements successfully in spite of my new patch!). We'll all see how well it holds in the next few days . . . until, maybe, the spammer bots and their hackers -- if indeed they're bots -- discover a workaround eventually, and we're back on the merry-go-round of break-in and scrambling for yet another patch!
Cheers,
...Alex
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