I recommend patching using this: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=473222
It effectively reduced the account registration attempts by bots to zero as it replaces the long cracked captcha. Furthermore, it consists of only the addition of 1 (one) code file, several fonts and one tiny modification to the existing code.
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