Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

I do have a few suggestions. I will try to put them to you as best I can.

With all due respect, your requirement specification is a bit "woolly". I spent the past 10 minutes reading it and I'm not sure I understand (a) the problem or (b) how problem was caused and therefore (c) how to go about solving the problem.

So let's start with the problem: you have spam attacks; that little I understand. Are these attacks on a regular or infrequent basis. What kind of security to you currently have in place (user registration, forum view access, forum post access, review forum posts, SEF URLs)? Is your forum open to allow unregistered users with the ability to post messages? How easy is it for people to register as users? Why would people want to spam these sites? What are the specific challenges/hurdles facing administrator or the moderators of the forums? How do things operate at the present?

Then there's the cause of the problem: Are the attacks launched from a specific IP address or a country, for example? What monitoring have you put in place to examine the source of the attacks. Do you perform any real-time analysis or event log monitoring? How many attacks are occurring as a percentage of total postings? Do you screen new user registrations? If you are being flooded by spambots, have you implemented antiflooding controls and captcha, for example? What features do you currently lack to control the source of these attacks?

And now for the solution: you devoted most of your request writing about solutions. Make your solution specifications shorter, to the point. Place a number next to each solution requirement, together with a rating (high/low priority; mandatory/desirable, etc.), and explain the work your contractor has to perform, not how things operate at the present.



By the way, some of the approaches you've suggested ware being considered for Kunena 1.6.

Hi There
Your right there is those delete buttons, But we have a forum that is getting about 20 spams per day, they are signing up, then putting one post on many threads, so when we delete them out, we need to keep going to different threads to delete the message which takes ages.

If we could just select all and press delete, or even just press delete on the same page for each post, that would probably be enough.

The block user would be superb on the profile page, so moderators dont have to go into the back end.

For Kunena 1.6 we are working on combining this with the custom search.

That way you can quickly filter on all messages by user, category, text, time, replies, .....

Hope to get delete (trash in Kunena 1.6) and move in there soon.

Something like this is how i would do the block user and delete buttons, mind you i didnt kinow it was already thought about for 1.6

I have had my forum up for about a month and now getting what look like spam (possibly automatic) registrations, They do not look like real email addreses and some are very similar but with one character different in each. They never leave any message on the forum. (What does the robot gain from doing this?). How do I stop this? I noticed when I registered on this forum there was a second form to fill out, would this stop it and if so how do I add that to the forum I have.

www.shrivenham100.com

Please help as it seems to getting worse.

Thanks

Hello,

The best way is to put a captcha thing on joomla! registration part, there are plenty of topics speaking about this in joomla! forums or here.