Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

JoS wrote: I thought i went into User Administration and the option to delete was at top right of the page (with edit etc.).

That is the Joomla User Administation function. The Kunena User Administration/User Profile Manager (K 1.5.11) does not have a delete feature.

If you are using K 1.5 you can delete users in Joomla (but we don't recommend it); we recommend that you disable the user accounts. We recommend that you use something else (cPanel, for example) to ban users.

If you choose to use K 1.6 you can ban users directly from Kunena.

Where spam originates from is anyone's guess, I'm sorry to say. Spam is spam and spam is independent of whatever forum product that you choose to use. This discussion topic has dozens of useful tips that can help.

Thanks,

Sorry but this raises a few more questions for me....

Is there any reason why you recommend not to delete users from the Joomla admin?

How do I "disable" the users accounts?

I've enabled Spam assassin in cPanel. is this what you are referring to, it seems to be the only thing available for Spam.

If i install version 1.6 does it simply upgrade the existing installation? I've only looked into this briefly but am happy to do so.

I've read on previous pages that you can manually approve users who try to register, because i have a very slow amount of traffic i'd like to have this option. how do I go about it.

So sorry for my tedious questions. You can see how NEW all this is to me but I'd rather ask and have you shaking your head at me than give up!!

Thanks again
Jo

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Hello, I have implemented my new forum on my webpage www.berlin-studis.de and I see almost everyday new registered users. My problem is, that the users have no real email-adresses, always things like: [email protected] and so on. Nobody posted there anything but me, so I want to implement a kind of security module oder things like captcha plug-ins? Is there anybody who could tell me how to protect my forum from spam or from users registered by machines?

Thanks a lot
Dani

I second that.

The 1.6 RC1 version also has no built in Captcha system and I'm not keen to load another extention to manage it. It should be a built in system with Kunena like the 1.5 versions had.

Melyundan wrote: Hello, I have implemented my new forum on my webpage www.berlin-studis.de and I see almost everyday new registered users. My problem is, that the users have no real email-adresses, always things like: [email protected] and so on. Nobody posted there anything but me, so I want to implement a kind of security module oder things like captcha plug-ins? Is there anybody who could tell me how to protect my forum from spam or from users registered by machines?

Thanks a lot
Dani

Registrations are not handled b kunena they are handeled by JOOMLA to stop spam your best bet is to install registration validator 2 module and block all registration from the mail.ru email address and that will stop 90% of your spam users