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Spam attack even after uninstalling

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(@boodah)
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Hello, I installed the wpforo plugin. However I get a lot of spam, sometimes 200 per day. I tried adjusting the settings so that messages are moderated but it didn't change anything. Currently having 136,000 spam messages, I have even banned new topics. I still had lots of new topics arriving in droves in my mailbox. So I uninstalled the plugin but I notice that I still receive messages informing me of the creation of a new topic (spam obviously, we are almost at 10 per minute!)
How to stop this?

THANKS

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Sofy
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 Sofy
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Hi,

Please read this FAQ: https://wpforo.com/community/faq/how-to-stop-spam/

 So I uninstalled the plugin but I notice that I still receive messages informing me of the creation of a new topic (spam obviously, we are almost at 10 per minute!)

If the wpForo plugin is deactivated, users can't create any topics anymore, so there shouldn't be any notifications.

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(@boodah)
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Hello, thank you for your response.

I had seen the post about spam and had already put things in place to reduce it.

I uninstalled the plugin this morning and between 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (I deactivated the plugin at 10:30 a.m.), I received 200 emails each indicating the creation of a new topic on the forum even though the plugin is indeed deactivated! ! I don't know what to do to stop this anymore 😓 

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