Is there a plugin with captcha for community builder? FREEEEEEE!!!!! W the open source!

hey i know how you felt i use to have this same issue all the time until i found this plugin on the joomla extensions site it works with jomsocial, community builder, kunena and normal joomla registration ive not seen a bot on my forum since



it works by cross refrencing the ip on registration with sites like stopforumspam.com and if the ip or email upon registration matches up it will just display registration failed or you can tell the plugin to do custom things.

this is a magnificent piece of work

I am using a joomla + community builder + kunena combo but i am getting alot of spam posts in the kunena forum. How can i fight this? I get like 10 spam posts every day and deleting them 1 by 1 is really a pain.

Also is it possible to remove all posts from a specific user in just few clicks?

Thank you

good question im having this same problem users spamming the karma i got one member with over 100 karma because he spammed it so much -.-

yes, if I set up review posts = yes, then subscriptions don't work and if i set up review = no, then they work.
My community is about 3k-4k big and they all consist of professors and elder researchers. We have always used a listserv and wanted to make a step forward.
I need the feature that everybody is subscribed to a forum and get's notificated, because that is what they use most, their email system. And prior to that: they want it like that.
But if you have this and the posts are not reviewed prior to publishing, then the problem arises, that they also get notificated about spam. so we definately need this function and I am waiting for the promising (and for us to make kunena usable) feature of a category subscription.

Meanwhile I found the error:
In moderate_messages.php:

function jbApprovePosts($kunena_db, $cid) (line 421)

you need to notify all the subscribers in this after it succeeded. Add this code before the return:
maybe it would make sense to create this as a new function somewhere because now you have the same code twice in your program..

I am seeing something like this. If a user posts anything with a url tag in it, bang, the Block User is turned on in their Joomla account. Now if that were the case all the time, I am certain something would have gotten reported before this, and quite loudly. That means it is most likely some issue between plugins.

Anyone have a suggestion on what would conflict so badly with Kunena?

I had some spammer problems a few months ago. Not anymore, after I installed Registration Validator plugin. With that you can block e-mails, ip-addresses and certain usernames

While Kunena is Joomla komponent and there are meny thins users want to be developed in forum itself, I understand perfectly that there is no use to start building things that are already available as plugins to Joomla

...and I´m just a user myself.

Its basic stuff..I moved my forum/website from Zeta to Kunena, on Zeta we had a list of spammers email addy's that we'd added to the ban filters to stop them joining the forum, can we do that here?

There are hundreds of ways to protect your website from spammers. There are even basic mechanisms built into Kunena for the purpose. I was answering your question about "can I ban people based on their email address." If you want to widen the discussion into something else that's different.

What's your question?

So there is no real way to protect a Kunena forum from spammers even at a basic level?? Im amazed.

Nein, ich habs neu installiert.
"Auf einmal" stimmten die Sonderzeichen nicht mehr.
Mir ist klar, dass ich schon was kaputt gemacht haben muss, aber keine Ahnung was

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Gruß chris

So how can we handle the spam problem?

Like I've said, its a hassle to manually approve accounts.

Our site is having spam issues. We want to give moovur a try, as it supposedly detects spam not only at registration time, but also when information gets sent to the server.

I basically want spam (forum posts/topics) to not even get through.

Would Moovur work? is there any other solution?

Right now, all new accounts are up for approval by the admin, and its kind of aggravating to have to approve each new user. (We use the submitted email to guess whether its real or fake)

We have a captcha during the registration process, but registrations still get through.

The problem is that spam gets posted by these users.

multiply image upload will not be availible till K1.6 is released, currently its not even possible to do wth K1.5 even with a hack, dispite what the spammer above is claiming.

Hi Everyone:

Yesterday morning, my website experienced a spam attack which was aimed at the outgoing email function. A script attached itself to some component or core Joomla file and began to auto generate outgoing spam emails to random addresses which are all bogus. These in turn caused bounces.

One net result is that it caused my primary email address to exceed beyond the 150 outgoing emails per hour limit. As a result, I can no longer send out emails from my account.

I'm attempting to troubleshoot this and need assistance in narrowing down the likely culprits. Kunena seems to be one of them. I'm running version 1.5.8 which, as I recall does have some security vulnerabilities. Is this true? I'm also running Wordpress MU blogging, JNews, DT Register, AEC, Community Builder and some others.

I'd appreciate some help with this. I realize that all non Kunena issues are off topic here but any suggestions would still be appreciated. I have to get to the bottom of this quickly. My main question is: will re-installing a component generally eliminate this issue? If someone has a good source for resolving Joomla spam problems, please also let me know.

Sincerely,
Howard