Title: comment spam
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# comment spam

 *  [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/)
 * (@chaaban)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/)
 * How come i’m receiving spam comments (2.0)
 * and i have them disabled + a user must register to comment ??
 * still i’m receiving a lot of spam comments ….

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 *  [ellwangen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellwangen/)
 * (@ellwangen)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/#post-350517)
 * There are sripts to avoid spam e.g.
    [http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/](http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/)
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/#post-350524)
 * Bad Behavior won’t stop comment spam per se, it’s just mostly meant to block 
   bad bots from your site.
 * Use the plugin that comes with WordPress, [Akismet](http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet)
   or [Spam Karma 2](http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/). Both 
   work quite well.
 *  [danatnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danatnr/)
 * (@danatnr)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/#post-350924)
 * I may have the same problem as chaaban.
 * I have the option “User must be registered” to comment turned ON in Options >
   General Options > User must be registered to comment. This used to result me 
   getting asked to approve a user before someone could submit a comment.
 * Unfortunately I’m now getting comments from a spammer without getting asked to
   approve the user. I have searched up and down for this user in my user list so
   that I can delete it, but I don’t seem to have the guy in my user list. I should
   be getting an email that says “Please approve so-and-so…” but I’m not.
 * I loaded my single post page in IE and it says, You must be logged in to post.
   That looks good. So my confusion lies in how does he submit comments without 
   logging in? Is this a bug that just got found?
 * I’ve activated Akismet. That does help, but I’m wondering if a bug isn’t being
   exploited somehow.
 * Thanks!
 *  [amits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amits/)
 * (@amits)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/#post-350927)
 * I turn off the registration feature but I installed spam karma2 and that worked
   a treat for me!

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 * Last reply from: [amits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amits/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-spam-4/#post-350927)
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