Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Damn! One account went through AlphaRegistration last night. Lets hope it keeps to the minimal.

I just want to add my 2 cents or so to this thread. Originally when I came to Kunena, I also installed Community Builder. While this was cool and enabled me a lot of options, I decided to remove Community Builder and go back to a simple, plain site. One thing about Community Builder is that no spam got through.

Now that I was back to a Joomla registration component, I immediately started getting spam. Even with any captcha extension installed. So I searched the JED for a better registration component and found AlphaRegistration. I installed it and it works great. Now I was still faced with a problem. Spam bots were still accessing the Joomla registration page. If I typed in the url for the regular Joomla registration, It would go right to it, not AlphaRegistration.

I found on a site how to force the regular Joomla registration to redirect to AlphaRegistration. this way, Spam bots could in no way access it. Hopefully this will hold them off a little better.

If You have AlphaRegistraition installed and face a similar problem, here is my solution.

Open components/com_user/views/register/tmpl/default.php

The top lines will read.

Change that too, providing Your using the core Joomla SEF

Hopefully someone will find this usefull. :woohoo:

Hi guys,

I got a problem - Click Here

You will se that a memeber called Playgirl has left a spam message. Is there anyway of stopping this please? such as the type in image letter thing? or security setting?

Once many thanks again,

Dave

Hi,

you need some 3rd party components or plugin that prevent spam registration in your site. Kunena is not responsable for registration of users.

Regards

Any recommendations as in any that are compatable with Kunena 1.6? as I didnt get this problem with my ccboard forum

Many thanks

Dave

RE:
<?php // no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
$mainframe->redirect('../alpharegistration/register');
?>

love it top man. I installed alphaplug which is a great add on, I ensured bot search and recapture, but I knew that this was the weakness. Thanks for solving it. As nobody was ever actually visiting the site I knew they weren't clicking on the confirmation link, therefore, I knew they were somehow skipping the whole process - bots obviously. This should resolve it.

Top man What's your site?