Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

New feature in Kunena 1.6 allows moderators and admins to block spammers and delete all their messages by using few clicks.

I'm new to this and have help in setting up Joomla and Kunena but I'm hoping to learn how to stop the current wave of Russian origin Spam/porno that or small forum is being blighted with.
I understand others have/had this same problem.
Although we remove the offending message quickly and block the IP in joomla it is still a great nuisance.
Is there anyway to monitor registrations in Kunena/Joomla rather than leaving it to user email conformation.
I have searched for a solution but I'm not experience denough to pinpoint it.

I do not want to give it all up but neither do I want too allow this rubbish to pass through my site.

Thanks

G'day, Nemo10, and welcome to Kunena.

Your problem isn't restricted just to Kunena. Any website that has a forum is seen as a likely target for spam-merchants to try to disrupt. Whether it's Kunena or phpBB, whether it's Joomla or some other website architecture, if it's on the internet then it becomes a candidate for being spammed.

There are many techniques that you can employ to make it harder for spam-merchants to get at your site; you can make it more difficult for their bots to register at your site by challenging them with questions that only human users would know the answers to.

You can also block whole IP ranges, if you think that might help. There are lots of tools that can do all kinds of things to keep out the unwanted troublemakers. This discussion topic canvasses a mere handful of the ideas that people can use on their website.

The essential thing to keep in mind is this: it's not Kunena that is allowing spam-merchants to infiltrate your site. It's the way you've set up your site security.

My website with Kunena 1.5.12 receive several spam messages per day. All of them starts with empty"/nn

I disabled public write, and also enabled email verification upon registration.

How to prevent this?

G'day, milstanyu. Welcome to Kunena and welcome to the never-ending discussion about spam and Kunena and what you can do about it. I hope that you will take some time to look back over the contributions made to this discussion and that you might find something helpful in them.

Sorry if this is the wrong section but I need help ASAP...

I have spent most of the weekend deleting spam post from someone in Russia, I keep deleting his account but he just signs back up and spams more, is there any way I can delete his account|? (******@******.**)

Link to forum...

www.nikkershaw.net/fan-forum