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11 years 6 months ago #111361
by Patrick Milbrodt
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Hello,
I have k2 comments enabled for everyone, with recaptcha, and also have stopforumspam set up.
Yet I get ~20 spam comments each day.
I'm beginning to think one of my few registered admin users is compromised. Those users are not required to enter a captcha. so I will change passwords.
Any advice for how I can track down how they might be doing this?
Thanks,
Patrick
I have k2 comments enabled for everyone, with recaptcha, and also have stopforumspam set up.
Yet I get ~20 spam comments each day.
I'm beginning to think one of my few registered admin users is compromised. Those users are not required to enter a captcha. so I will change passwords.
Any advice for how I can track down how they might be doing this?
Thanks,
Patrick
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11 years 6 months ago #111362
by Krikor Boghossian
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Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
Hello Patrick,
You should go to Components => K2 => Comments and see if the spam is posted from a registered user or a guest.
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You should go to Components => K2 => Comments and see if the spam is posted from a registered user or a guest.
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11 years 6 months ago #111363
by Patrick Milbrodt
Replied by Patrick Milbrodt on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
Hey thanks.
The comments are all posted by unregistered users. I've disabled comments for now. I've tested posting comments without entering the captcha, but it works as it should. There must be some way they are getting past that.
The comments are all posted by unregistered users. I've disabled comments for now. I've tested posting comments without entering the captcha, but it works as it should. There must be some way they are getting past that.
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11 years 2 months ago #111364
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Replied by Nods on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
So is there any solution. Yesterday i deleted 18 pages of 100 spam comments per page. When i came back today i have 62 pages, so 6,200 new spam comments.
Any idea why K2 gets so much spam and how to stop it?
Any idea why K2 gets so much spam and how to stop it?
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11 years 1 month ago #111365
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Replied by JOSE UGS on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
I am searching for a solution on this one, but still nothing...
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11 years 1 month ago #111366
by Mohamed Abdelaziz
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Replied by Mohamed Abdelaziz on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
Me too have this problem, I have prevented guests from posting comments and no spam for now, but I want to allow guests to post real comments and prevent spam.
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11 years 1 month ago #111367
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Replied by steve on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
has anyone solved this spam problem.. makes the K2 module less than great if i have 15,000 spam comments.. every time it turn it on..
what are our options?
thanks
what are our options?
thanks
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11 years 1 month ago #111368
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Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
The trick is that spammers create an account and thus bypass any protection (e.g. from reCaptcha - StopForumSpam works for signups only)...
Make sure you have K2 v2.6.7 installed and then look into the component's settings for an option to enable reCaptcha even for registered users. Turn this on and you should be fine now.
Old installations have this disabled by default but we've now changed default behaviour to enabled - that is, for new K2 installations. Existing installations should just switch to "enabled" if you don't monitor user signups (e.g. site open to registrations for anyone).
Make sure you have K2 v2.6.7 installed and then look into the component's settings for an option to enable reCaptcha even for registered users. Turn this on and you should be fine now.
Old installations have this disabled by default but we've now changed default behaviour to enabled - that is, for new K2 installations. Existing installations should just switch to "enabled" if you don't monitor user signups (e.g. site open to registrations for anyone).
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11 years 1 month ago #111369
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Replied by steve on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
thanks that helped.
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10 years 10 months ago #111370
by Jesús González
Hi, I'm still getting problems with this. My reCaptcha is set for registered users and I'm not allowing new users. But I still get spam comments, many of them, the registered users appear as authors. Should I change passwords?
I also have some real comments, but they appear as unpublished and I cannot publish them. What can I do?
Thanks!
Morbid Design
www.morbid-design.com
Replied by Jesús González on topic Re: Can't stop the spam
Fotis Evangelou wrote: The trick is that spammers create an account and thus bypass any protection (e.g. from reCaptcha - StopForumSpam works for signups only)...
Make sure you have K2 v2.6.7 installed and then look into the component's settings for an option to enable reCaptcha even for registered users. Turn this on and you should be fine now.
Old installations have this disabled by default but we've now changed default behaviour to enabled - that is, for new K2 installations. Existing installations should just switch to "enabled" if you don't monitor user signups (e.g. site open to registrations for anyone).
Hi, I'm still getting problems with this. My reCaptcha is set for registered users and I'm not allowing new users. But I still get spam comments, many of them, the registered users appear as authors. Should I change passwords?
I also have some real comments, but they appear as unpublished and I cannot publish them. What can I do?
Thanks!
Morbid Design
www.morbid-design.com
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