I just tried to see how easy it is to sign up to this forum with a dummy account (promoted by user mutato with 8 spams in a day) and I see that the image designed to prevent automated registrations is broken - it shows a broken image link and of course it's now impossible for legitimate users to sign up to the forum.

Quite how mutato managed to sign up today I've no idea - when was the image verification function added to the registration page? If it was added before 12 Dec 2006 (the date mutato joined) there must be an exploit in the forum software which allows automated registration.

The url for the verification image appears to be:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...97760864cc3a96

which results in the following php error: