I also have this problem. I have "Enable Visual Confirmation" on as well as the "activate by Admin only" set and the spammers STILL come in and register. At least they cannot post but in the meantime, any of my members who comes into the forum has full view of the new registration (albeit one that is unable to post). If anyone happens to see one of these spammer registrations, they can click on the screen name given and see the profile which may include a link to porn, drug or other trash sites. This is a real problem in our forums which I sincerely wish could be addressed and a solution be found for by our BizHat Admin folks. Of course, we do have free forums sites but this type of thing could easily discourage new forums site owners very quickly. I am currently getting an average of 25 spam registrations daily throughout the Christmas season. It really gets old quickly! Good luck and if you come up with a solution for this highly irritating problem, please clue me in too!