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cloudmir

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Mar 02, 2017 3:25 pm

(@cloudmir)

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Hi,

Over the last couple days I've gotten people spamming my site with PDF uploads for illegal streaming sites. Any suggestions on how to prevent this?

Thanks!

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Robert

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Mar 02, 2017 4:54 pm

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We're working on a spam file detector and cleaner. I'll update this topic once it's released. Also please install some reCAPTCHA plugin, for example this one, it's compatible with wpForo:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fast-secure-recaptcha/

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Jose Arroyo

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Mar 02, 2017 6:14 pm

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Robert

what is the best way to prevent spammers to register to our forum in the first place?

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cloudmir

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Mar 03, 2017 3:21 pm

(@cloudmir)

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I enabled the captcha and made it impossible to upload PDFs to the website. I'm still getting link-spammed every night with this garbage. It's a lot of work to manually delete every single spam topic or reply. I may have to disable the forums on our site until you can provide an anti-spam solution.

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Robert

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Mar 03, 2017 9:36 pm

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It's already under development and comes with next 1.1.3 version.

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Robert

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Mar 03, 2017 9:37 pm

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At the moment I recommend for all who get spammed, navigate in Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Forum Accesses. Edit the Standard Access and disable "Can Attach File" permission.

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