Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

I don't know why nobody accepts how efficient the q&a solution is. I told you, i have website in english with only one simple question: In what season does it snow? Websites that before that were flooded with spam like kunena is now. The is more than a year since I haven't received more than four or five spam posts and those must have been done by humans.

I will try your word filter but I believe some spammers are content without posting links, either. where do I find that word filter?

I used to get flooded with spam, and captcha fixed it (and SpamBotCheck), and also making users require a working email address.

Plus of course, registration is handled by Joomla.

I need to post under different names, you know, virtual people, so it is simpler to post anonymous, also I don't want people to stay 5 minutes for creating an account(because they won't, usually).
This EasyCalc is killing me. Can I tweak to accept only one answer? so I can use it as a q&a plugin?

Perhaps you should look on the Joomla extensions website, since that is where you will find what you are looking for. Kunena does not handle registration or login, Joomla does.

Well, I've managed to stop the spam being posted on the forum....or at least cut it down to about one instance a day so thanks to all for the advice.

Anyone shed any light on this though.....my site is Joomla and you have to register to use some functions,including the Kunena forum part of it. Once you register an eamil is sent which you then activate etc etc.

However, I am getting about 100 per day whereby some nonsense email and user registers but then never proceed to actually complete registration, I'm guessing because it#'s some automated system doing it. There is no IP address included and they are all from email addresses ending with '@aderispharm.com'.

Is this a threat to the site and how do I stop them? 100 per day is a hell of alot.

Cheers

MonkeyDragon wrote: Well, I've managed to stop the spam being posted on the forum....or at least cut it down to about one instance a day so thanks to all for the advice.

Anyone shed any light on this though.....my site is Joomla and you have to register to use some functions,including the Kunena forum part of it. Once you register an eamil is sent which you then activate etc etc.

However, I am getting about 100 per day whereby some nonsense email and user registers but then never proceed to actually complete registration, I'm guessing because it#'s some automated system doing it. There is no IP address included and they are all from email addresses ending with '@aderispharm.com'.

Is this a threat to the site and how do I stop them? 100 per day is a hell of alot.

Cheers

Sorry guys, just reafing back through this and I think it's prob best served asking on a Joomla forum - unless anyone has any suggestions? I am presuming the problem lies with Joomla and not Kunena?