Stephane Daury (stephdau)
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Suspicous file detected in pluginSure thing. It was definitely a question worth asking. Thank you for having taken the time to do that. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Suspicous file detected in pluginHi there @kristinubute.
The files in
/wp-content/languages/are translation files that get automatically downloaded by WordPress when your site is set to something else thanen_US(WP’s default language). That’s true for WP itself, plugins that support multiple languages (like Akismert), etc.Based on the file name in your screenshots (both images showed the same file, btw), is your site set to be in Australian English (
en_AU)? Those translations usually deal with English differences between countries, like usingouinstead ofoin words like colour, etc.If the latter is the case, I do not believe that the file is a threat. What I cannot gauge of with just screenshots is if said file was somehow “hacked” in some way, which would be doubtful.
Hope this helps.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Fake Email from AskimetHi there, @sanostec.
That sounds very sketchy… Some of it makes sense (Akismet email, WordPress.com login, etc), but the “option to click another link that was just a number” part doesn’t ring a bell.
I did find what appears to be your account on our end, and I do see that you added a new card yesterday, so it seems that the email was legitimate, but we’d love to hear more about the rest of the experience, as it sounds far from being user-friendly.
If you’re so inclined, we’d appreciate if you could reach out to our support via https://akismet.com/contact/, so we can look into the details of your inquiry.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Stephane Daury (stephdau).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Email Address – False PositiveHi @neilgee,
There is not, but you should get in touch with us at https://akismet.com/contact, and we’ll help you sort that out.
Hi there, you can find details about non-profits here. You will need to send us documentation to prove your non-profit status, and we’ll mark your account as so.
Thanks for the report. We’ll look into it, and get it fixed for the next plugin release.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Email provider blocked incorrectlyHello @tobiasb92 .
We’ve handled it on our end. Should be good now.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Delete directly spamHi there @draky .
Is that for WordPress comments, or other types of spam?
In its WP plugin settings screen, Akismet has an option to “Silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it.” that should do this for you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] confict with vendor dashboad supportNoting this has been handled through a support ticket.
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In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Completely bypass AkismetHey @jerclarke! It’s been a minute since we’ve talked WP. 😀
Sorry for the delay, mis-sorted notif.Noted, but in the context of testing, something you might want to explore leveraging is the
AKISMET_TEST_MODEconstant and relatedAkismet::is_test_mode(). That’ll set theis_testparam when querying the API, so your tests don’t affect training, etc.Sure thing, happy to help. 🙂
If you need further help that requires getting into the details of your account or statistics, I recommend reaching out to us from https://akismet.com/contact
Hi again,
are all the sites present? could it be that some site does not appear in the list?
The sites listed are the ones that have placed an API query to check for spam during the selected month (aka: considered active).
Depending on traffic to your site(s), what forms use Akismet to check for spam, etc, it’s possible some of your sites do not check anything for spam at all on any given month (so it would not appear in that list that month).
Absolutely. If you login to akismet.com, you’ll be taken to your account section, where a list of active sites using your key will be displayed. You can also go back in time to see what sites used your keys in the past.
See:
- https://docs.akismet.com/account/log-into-account/
- https://docs.akismet.com/account/remove-inactive-sites/
If you happen to also be interested, the list in the account section is powered by this API endpoint, which you can also leverage for your needs, if you want.
Hi there,
I’m not sure if that’ll entirely answer your question, but Akismet does protects your WP site against trackbacks and pingbacks spam, which both use XML-RPC.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection] Completely bypass AkismetHi @bedas.
We’ll look into a new hook to achieve that in a future release indeed.