Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Has there been any updates to the implementation of stopforumspam ??

Hello we recently started to use Kunena forums and Joomla very happy with it. Is there any kind of extension or add on we can install to stop spam bots from being able to register on our forums.

*** Topics merged ***

Hi

At the risk of reviving this evergreen topic, I would just like to re-plug the free SpamFighter plugin (pardon the pun).

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...pam-protection/16331

I have nothing to do with the developer apart from being a very satisfied user, and it has single-handedly eliminated 99% of my Kunena spam problems. It takes about a week to train it, by marking any spam posts, but it then gets miraculously smarter and smarter with its Bayesian algorithm.

Now at most 1 post per week makes it past Captcha and SpamFighter (for a forum where you don't have to register to post). Before, using only Captcha, I'd have 10-20 per day.

An absolute Godsend that I can't recommend enough: it really decreases the amount of vigilance required in constantly policing threads.

I almost feel bad writing about it though, in case it becomes too popular and the spambots start trying to explicitly game SpamFighter, but hey, until that happens, hope this saves someone else a lot of headache.

Cheers!

I am in 100% agreement. We had some horrible spam issues, and this extension has solved them 99% of the time. AND it's Kunena 2.0 compatible

I also want to remind the Kunena official team that : Kunena itself must has something wrong so that spam can be posted easily to our forums.

Well, I had tried SpamFigher, it did not work so good. Then I installed another small plugin named "SpambotCheck", this plugin can stop about 20 spam registration attempts every day ! Try it.