Bots keep signing up for my forum

[demoncatlord]

Bots keep successfully making accounts and the problem has gotten so bad that I had to make it so I (as admin) have to manually activate accounts as apposed to email verification.

What should I do?

[TimeX]

What forum software are you using? One thing decently effective against bots is enabling some sort of captcha to account creation.

[kraze]

I recently had to deal with this on a PHPBB install. I used just about all of the tips listed here and it instantly stopped all bots from signing up;
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=1861645

[demoncatlord]

I'm using the latet phpbb software on my site
(www.demoncattribe.com)

[kraze]

I'm using the latet phpbb software on my site
(http://www.demoncattribe.com)

Then that link above should help you out a lot.