I had recently installed elgg and the spam bots already attacked within minutes, can some body tell me how to avoid spam from this bots. Ive tried recaptcha plugin but nothing happens.
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- Tom@Thomasondiba
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- Doug Bedell@Dougbeetle
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- rjcalifornia@rjcalifornia
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This is the best tool to fight spammers. Captcha is now as effective as it was before. Rodolfo Hernandez Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
- endlasuresh@suresh
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You must log in to post replies.@ endlasuresh, I have used these four plugins and I can assure you, my spam issues have become a thing of the past. However, I do normally delete one or two spammers once in a while.
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1172111/1.8.14/elgg-captcha
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/774755/1.8.3/spam-login-filter
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/821368/1.6/spam-throttle-18x
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1131529/1.0/honeypot-spam-catcher
Hope this helps.
This is where we are, using the anti-spam and captcha plugins. But the problem with spam isn't a "thing of the past." They keep coming on, requiring valuable time to remove at the gate and posing the risk that legitimate applicants will occasionally be deleted as well. There may be no answer to this beyond where we're at, but I'd hardly say that, even with plugins, spam is "a thing of the past," or is likely, from what I can see as a novice Elgg user, ever to be.
Spam login filter:
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/774755/1.8.3/spam-login-filter
hi tom
I installed your plugin but it is giving error and replied in that discussion. where to download the newest version?
also I am getting this error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in mod/gutwacaptcha/views/default/gutwacaptcha/register.php on line 1