Hi, I am running Joomla v2.5.14 with K2 v2.6.7 with recaptcha.
User are not allowed to log into this site.
We have one area where guests can comment on articles and here is where the SPAM appears.
I notices that all the spammers leave URLS and so I did th following:
- I renamed components/com_k2/templates/default/item_comments_form.php in order to disable it.
- in templates/them1021/html/com_k2/default/item_comments_form.php I commented out lines 39-40 which provide the Comment URL field on the form
Guests can enter comments but cannot provide a URL. This is fine normally but spammers still manage to lave a URL and I don't know how. A typical line from my logfile when a SPAMMER leaves a SPAM is as follows:
[03/Sep/2013:21:27:09 0000] "GET /varuna/index.php/component/k2/item/199-alumni-feature-february-2012 HTTP/1.1" 200 38212 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; TencentTraveler ; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
2339 222.77.215.254 - - [03/Sep/2013:21:27:16 0000] "POST /varuna/index.php/component/k2/ HTTP/1.1" 200 53 "
varuna.com.au/varuna/index.php/component/k2/item/199-alumni-feature-february-2012" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) )"
2340 222.77.215.254 - - [03/Sep/2013:21:27:16 0000] "GET /varuna/index.php/component/k2/item/199-alumni-feature-february-2012 HTTP/1.1" 200 38212 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; TencentTraveler ; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
2341
Can someone tell me how these guys are getting SPAM onto my site and how I might be abel to block this.
