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gbaudio

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  1. Hi guys, I've been plagued by (mostly Russian) spammers for a while, setting up fake accounts and bombarding my inbox with crap. I recently found a really quick and easy solution that has cut almost all of it without the need for any add-ons or coding. I noticed that in most cases, the bots fill the customer name section with the same text that they put in the message. I couldn't find any way of limiting this in my OSComm shop admin, so looked to the Databases on my hosting site and found the answer. Log in to your hosting C-Panel and go to the Databases section of the menu and click phpMyAdmin There will be directories shown on the left column. Expand the directory called *yourstore*_oscomm Expand the sub-directory called Customers Expand the sub-directory called Columns Expand the sub-directory called Customers_FirstName You will see that the default length/value is set to 255. Change it to 15 and press SAVE. Do the same for the subdirectory called Customers_LastName This will cut the bots off when they try to input whole messages into every field at sign up. Good luck and thanks to OS Commerce online forum for helping me with other stuff before. Cheers, GB
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