Kunena 6.4.9 & Kunena 7.0.1 Released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.4.9 [K 6.4.9] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 5.0.x/5.1.x/5.2.x/5.3.x/5.4.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 / K 6.4 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.4

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 7.0.1 [K 7.0.1] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 5.0.x/5.1.x/5.2.x/5.3.x/5.4.x/6.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 / K 6.4 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 7.0

Important note: Go to the Kunena Dashboard after an upgrade so that the Kunena database tables are also updated. This is particularly necessary for major version jumps so that the table changes are adapted.

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15 years 7 months ago #50546 by cally6008
Replied by cally6008 on topic How to protect my forum from spam
I use ChronoForms as the registration page for my website and have had very few, if any, spammers registering.

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15 years 7 months ago #50556 by xillibit
Replied by xillibit on topic How to protect my forum from spam
Hello,

a captcha system is a good thing to prevent spams, do you using one ?
I don't provide support by PM, because this can be useful for someone else.

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15 years 7 months ago #50558 by cally6008
Replied by cally6008 on topic How to protect my forum from spam
xillibit wrote:

Hello,

a captcha system is a good thing to prevent spams, do you using one ?


Sorry, was this aimed at me ? Yes, the ChronoForms that I use has an inbuilt captcha and also an option (like registering on here ?) to ask a question and receive the correct answer before allowing registration to take place

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15 years 6 months ago #53505 by ranjeet
Replied by ranjeet on topic How to protect my forum from spam
cfBlockCountry (Plugin)is really nice solution to block any country to access without using ip address.one of my friend asked me to use this.For example if you want to block access of the site from any IP in United States you can use this plugin. I have used this to prevent unwanted access to my website and you can also use this if going through the same problem . you will definitely feel better after using this. you can download it from the given link below:-http://www.codefire.in/open-source.html

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15 years 6 months ago #54302 by xreliable
Replied by xreliable on topic How to protect my forum from spam
In my experience of running forums since the days when Compuserve ruled the Internet, is that captcha systems only work to **% (YMMV) efficiency i.e. they can and are beaten regularly if you have a busy forum/site. I've had better luck manually configuring Q&A or a combination.

There are several popular blacklist services with APIs and online lookup such as:
www.spamhaus.org/
www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml

I've found this site pretty useful for quick manual reference but they also have an API:
www.stopforumspam.com/downloads/

What I'm wondering is if there is anything planned for a Kunena plugin for this or similar services?

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15 years 5 months ago #57695 by JoS
Replied by JoS on topic How to protect my forum from spam
Hi,

I'm very new to the world of web building and Kunena so please go easy on me!!

I've discovered and removed some spam from my forum and have deleted them as they appeared but now the ability to delete registered users has GONE!
I've had 3 appear in the last 24hrs even with CAPTCHA switched on.
One of them is not listed in my User Profile Manager and i'm concerned this one may have done something to alter my ability to delete users - is this possible??
How do i stop them please? I'm using Joomla 1.5 & have searched through the extension directory but am not sure which one is right for what i need - any suggestions here?

Thanks in advance for your help

Jo

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