Why Spammers even unto this day?

Spammer have cause me years of data save on the elgg site. I just installed 1.11.0 and the very moment it loaded the spammers had logged in unvalidated with spam content. Will turning off registration work?

  • Yes, turning off registration will work.

    Please provide details about the spammers logging in without validating their accounts. That shouldn't happen and would be a bug in core if it does.