Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

proterra: I think you have a different problem ( Spamschutz: Captcha zu schwach ). Please use your own topic or create a new topic, in English, in Kunena Discuss (P) . Make sure you are using the latest version of Kunena and Kunena Discuss plugin and post your configuration report. I think we can help you better if you do that.

I noticed one thing that very annoying: my forum (built with kunena on J1.5) receives too many spam posts everyday.

The Joomla core I am using is the latest v1.5.25, and so is the Kunena component, v1.7.1. I also think my server is very strong. What is more, I had already installed a plugin to prevent SQL injections.

So, why Kunena still gets so many spam posts?

I remember that 2 years ago when I was using SMF forum, it seldom get any spam post.

Can I say that the reason is Kunena itself is very vulnerable for spam robots?

Hope you will make Kunena stronger.

Thanks.

baijianpeng wrote: Can I say that the reason is Kunena itself is very vulnerable for spam robots?

You can say it. We don't have to agree with that assertion.

WeedRoy wrote: but i know one site who dont use captcha, and dont have spam bots...
hmmmm :S

Sorry to say this, but that is the silliest comment made on this thread. :whistle:

its like saying "I know an intersection that has no traffic lights and never had a car accident". Therefore traffic lights do not make intersections safer. :laugh:

Site owners need to understand spam and what its all about. If you have excessive spam on a site, it probably means that the spammers see your site as worth the effort, either because it has high Google rankings, or it is an easy target. The cost to control spam gets higher as your site gets more popular.

I was getting a lot of spam on my site, but after the latest upgrade, and setting mandatory captcha on the first 5 posts, I now get about 2 spam hits a week (from about 50-60 per day), though I still have about 50 new users a day that are clear spammers, most clearly don't see the value in paying for cracking 5 more captchas so give up.

The important thing to realize is that there is no "Magic Silver Bullet" that kills all spam, you need to look at all the options and figure out the balance that works best for you.

Now that I have spam under control I can spend more time troll hunting, which is much harder.

Hi,

We get innundated with 20+ spam messages per day. It's turned our users off the forum which is now dying slowly depsite 60k members.

All I would need to do to stop this is ban users from placing any weblinks in their posts. Surely this is a very simple way of reducing spam and should be an easy option included as standard in Kunena?

Can you advise if this is possible? If not has anyone done this or tried to do it? The spam we get ranges from carpets to porn and Russia to China. Our registration process has been firmed up and we have recaptcha at that level but this still happens.

Please advise.