Solved Im New to Kunena and getting spam everyday. Need Help configuring.

Thanks to all that responded, I will do more research on this topic and try to follow advice that everyone gave.

Appreciate it.

I hope this article helps you: How to stop forum spam in Kunena

Hi, sozzled.
I am the developer of R-Antispam.
I am not here to say this is the best antispam solution, but I would like to state that there is an option in component configuration to remove the advertisement.

As a matter of fact, for some time I had the plan to set this option to remove the back link by default. I guess I forgot to do it, I will now.
Also, despite your advices sites are still goint to receive a lot of spam. I have learned that the best solution is to check users registrations against online spammers databases, such as stopforumspam and akismet. This is the option that most antispam tools plugins.
First R-antispam version used a heuristic method to detet spam text, and it prevented spam pretty good, although it used to missed some and sometimes detected false positives.
Then I tried checking users name and emails at akismet. Right now I can say my site is 100% spam free. You will need, however, an akismet key.

I have noticed a "Stop Forum Spam Configuration" at Kunena settings. I guess it should be worth trying this.

ratmil wrote: I have noticed a "Stop Forum Spam Configuration" at Kunena settings. I guess it should be worth trying this.

Thank you for mentioning this setting.

The setting Configuration » Security » Stop Forum Spam Configuration » API Key does not protect Kunena forums from spam. Kunena uses this information (see the file ../components/com_kunena/controllers/user.php) to report the details of a spam account to stopforumspam.com when you ban a user.

I have updated the article I wrote with information about this configuration setting.

I just disvored that Kunena uses the Stop Forum Spam Api key only to report spammers, not to stop them from posting.
Also, regarding online spammers database methods, like stopforumspam, it is true that they may report false positives. This may happen when identifying spammers by IP. You can fix this by using only email addresses to identify. This way it will really hard to mark a real user as spammer.