Getting spammed - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0

RE: Getting spammed

cloudmir — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:42:08 +0000

Thanks for the info. At this point, the spam posts are links, so the "can attach file" permission won't make a different in this case. I'm glad to know that the spam filter is under development. Let me know if you'd like a test-case.

RE: Getting spammed

Robert — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:37:54 +0000

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.

RE: Getting spammed

Robert — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 21:36:28 +0000

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

RE: Getting spammed

cloudmir — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:21:58 +0000

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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RE: Getting spammed

Jose Arroyo — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:14:23 +0000

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

RE: Getting spammed

Robert — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:54:28 +0000

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/

Getting spammed

cloudmir — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:25:50 +0000

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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