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[djtaylor Friend djtaylorJoin date: August 2011Posts: 146Downloads:0Uploads:35 Thanks: 26 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#174950

Hi, Guys
i have noticed that my site gets lots of spam nearly 700 fake users i have on my joomla site they all keep spamming and promoting there products and spamming with links, what shall i do its getting so annoying,i did have a shoutbox but then diasabled it as it was geting spamed now they go to the forum please help and have a look
has anyone got any advice how to stop fake accounts being made thanks.

thatmixtape.com/index.php/forum

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#443550

Hello,

I noticed that you don’t use any kind of anti spam system like captcha so my suggestion is that you at least try this first, there are many free on JED to look for and easy to integrate! Also if you upgrade to Joomla 2.5.x then you can make use of the build in captcha plugin.

Regards

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[gilljhonson Friend gilljhonsonJoin date: March 2012Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 1 times in 2 posts]

#443601

along with the captcha plugin you can also use any anti spam question which is asked to user while joining your forum

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[djtaylor Friend djtaylorJoin date: August 2011Posts: 146Downloads:0Uploads:35 Thanks: 26 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#443755

thanks pascm and gilljhonson i have downloaded two from the joomla extensions and works fine with the cb register
but i had to tale the ja login in /register down from the top right of my site as the anti spam did not show up on it.

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#443808

Hi,

You can adjust the CSS code for the JA Login module to display correctly if you want to.

Regards

[fcweb Friend fcwebJoin date: June 2014Posts: 42Downloads:56Uploads:10 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#1052598

hi everyone.
i have the same problem BUT i dont have any user registration on my website .
i understood that I received 1000 fake member registration on back-end , so I disable
user registration on the website..
but today i got more than 200 user register with "activated" status !!!!!
whats wrong??
i shut down website cause I think its been hacked. any idea???

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