Andy Bailey
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Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Works well. Had to make minor style change.thanks for the review Derek!
I have changed the styling of the checkbox on the latest version 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamthanks @snowballfighters!
I have just done another edit and I think this will smash the spammers this time..
turns out that scrapebox (a spamming tool) has a new learning module and it’s that which learns your field names
so if you change the name of the field, they can learn it again
..so I have made it so the secret key field name changes for every post
.. and made it impossible to comment if they already have x comments in moderation.
that means, the default setting of maximum moderated comments of 3 would mean scrapebox could only make a maximum of 3 spam comments over your whole site (using the same email address and if you haven’t approved any of their comments)
I’ll release it soon, just tidying up the code and seeing how it performs on my fiddyp.co.uk site
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamI was noticing it too and it appears there is a new module for scrape box which is able to learn what fields need to be sent with the comment form so anything I add to send with the comment for more security can be spoofed by the module
So I have set up my main site to use the new anti back linker plugin which removes all links from comments until the user has had 3 approved comments
And because scrape box is able to check if their spam comments went through and contained their links, it sees that leaving comments on my site doesn’t get them any back links at all! Not even the name link
..and all legitimate commenters see their comments go through
I’ll be releasing it soon to CommentLuv premium members
And possibly releasing a “lite” version for everyone else..
Stay tuned!…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamthe beta file is here
please report any problems here or with a support ticket at http://commentluv.zendesk.com
deactivate and delete the old plugin first
(don’t forget to clear your cache if you’re using a cache plugin!)Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamok people, I have added one more function to GASP to check the referring page
I am currently testing it on comluv.com and it has caught 77 bot comments so far
I’ll zip the file up and provide a url here after a few hours of it behaving nicely on my site
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamI think if many people are getting spam again after upgrading to wp3.6 you should report it to trac
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Not working in 3.6shu , what is a lot ?
if it’s below 30 in one day then it’s probably human generated spam from mechanical turks which GASP or other plugin can’t really help with.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamthanks Harouni, I didn’t spot that
if you’re getting targetted by human spam or you’re on a server that is getting targeted then there’s isn’t much that a plugin can do DaveMcK
or perhaps there is a vulnerability in wp3.6 ?
Great! Thanks chad
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Not working in 3.6@shu006 please try the latest version (1.4.1) and report anything that you consider ‘not working’ like error messages etc
could you please submit a support ticket at http://commentluv.zendesk.com with your site url? so I can check the source of your page to see that all the right things got added to your comment form
btw.. are comments going though ok?
it works on all my sites but someone is saying it is telling everyone that they are a spammer but I am assuming that they forgot to clear their cache.. just though I’d check with you..
thanks for the feedback Chad, funny but I fixed those things on my machine but uploaded the previous version that didn’t have the edits!
doh!
I’ll fix it in a future update
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamno need, they wouldn’t make much difference if I couldn’t see the referrer and other data.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin] Help! My site is once again beset my spamOh dear aptharsia , sorry to hear that
There must be a new vulnerability that spammers are taking advantage of
I know I had to switch of access to xmlrpc on my site so perhaps people are using that to make comments?
Unfortunately there’s not much a plugin can do if that is the case unless the exact method that the spammers use is known