Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Thanks for your response Sozzled. And actually, an apology is in order and I clearly spoke too soon.

Another spammer found my forum after installing the easycalc captcha plugin (this spammer strangely only posts in Polish or some such - the old viagra, etc ones have disappeared). I've tried 4 different Captcha methods in the plugin, including Re-Captcha, and each of them has been rapidly cracked (with a break of an hour or two after changing the method).

So, again, apologies - Kunena is clearly working as well as any other solution out there.

Sozzled, I think you're right - when allowing guests to post it seems to be simply practically impossible to protect the forum using ReCaptcha (or any other Captcha), except for possibly a very obscure custom captcha or code that doesn't have the economies of scale to make it worthwhile for spammers.

Will consider disabling guest posts, though that would be a real shame.

Until then, I hope the spammy bastards all die a painful death one day.

Cheers!

Was going through our server logs and just wanted to share a GET request I happened to see.

The aim of this is pretty obviously a spammer trying to post - quite a few similar requests come in every day.

This doesn't seem to work when I try it in my browser, but out of interest - is the aim of this to try and automatically get past the Captcha and the like?

Anyway, not sure what it means, but thought would share, maybe someone cleverer than me could do something with it or maybe even block these kind of misshapen requests directly in future if they serve no legitimate purpose?

I have kept kunena up to date, added the catchable codes, made very complex passwords, etc. and still we get spammers putting messages on our forum on a regular basis. How do they create user accounts? How do I do i stop this? Is it because of our .us extension instead of .org?

Our site: www.12tharmoreddivisiomassociation.us

Try to use this plug-in : spambotcheck
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...pam-protection/14027
It have worked for me

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I think your users should be given a repo score. Bases on these repo scores they can be limited to the numbered comments and ideas that they can post.

Also in FB, they have set an algorithm which will consider a user a spammer if the user posts more than 5 comments in less than 10 secs.