If bots are spamming your forum, they can waste your bandwidth and also cause load issues for your account.
What you need to do is stop them from accessing your forum to begin with.
ZB Block is an option that once installed will block block the bots before they even get a chance to spam:
http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php
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