First the easy version: click the ban symbol next to the spammer's domain on your stats/referers page, then click 'perform selected operations' after it takes you to your antispam page. Done! This is what most people do, and that's cool. Lots and lots… More »

Keep your keyword blacklist up-to-date! "Request abuse update from centralized blacklist" over and over until you only get one response that is "Not necessary! (Already handled)". Make this a habit! Each time you blog or check out your hitlog or just… More »

I've got a blog and frequently report spam to the centralized blacklist. I haven't seen an update import new blacklist entries since July 2013. Is that intentional? Admittedly, I'm still running an old version (v3.3.3). Do I need to upgrade for it to… More »

Hello, Would it be possible for you to add a whitelist ? So that when there is synchronization that these words (form whitelist) are not considered as spam. More »

A friend has contacted me saying her address, something@hotmail.com, is invalid. How can I let her comment? I've checked the anitspam blacklist and hotmail isn't on it (apart from the Russian one). More »

The most common blacklisted term is "article". See attached. More »

I am new with b2evolution. I found this project accidently via Wikipedia. b2evolution looks interesting and promising. It seems b2e would have "nearly everything" what I am looking for - out of the box! :) Thanks for this application! But I… More »

So we've been trying to get help on the forums and every time I'm asked for a link, I paste one but it errors saying example: http://www.a4at.com/blog/index.php/b/2015/12/17/news-nintendo-download-highlights-new-di-2226 More »

My host suspended my account yesterday for apparent massive spamming from my blog. The following is the notification they sent: We could see that there is huge spamming associated with your account. This has caused the mail IP to be blacklisted and… More »

I just ran into a phishing pbm first signaled via b2evo mailer and then confirmed by bluehost who deactivated my site and pointed out a number of suspicious files. At this point I have several questions: 1) may I safely clear all content of the… More »

Hi, (sorry for my english) I have friends who can not write comments on my blog. The system will not let them saying "Illegal content found (spam?)". How I can know which words of comment are spam? How disable the antispam filter? Thanks More »

My name is Jacques Jeanjean I use B2evolution with the domain oustal.net hosted by bluehost, I received the following msg from bluehost administrators. Does anyone understand where this originates and what should I do? Thks in advance, here is the… More »

I'm trying to figure out which IP addresses I need to block because of spam. I did a WhoIs search for one of the IPs that showed in my "Stats" and I'm not quite sure what to do. The WhoIs query came back with the following: [Querying… More »

Help! I had a whole page of stats from a spammer, and I clicked the "ban" button on the top one, not realizing that one (out of the entire page) was for one of my own websites ... :roll: I removed it from my local blacklist ... can an admin… More »

I am finding that the native captcha plugin is ineffective at stopping comment spam, so I am going to try an image based one from http://www.securitystronghold.com/products/ironclad-captcha/. The instructions tell you to put a bit of php code into the… More »

I get this error when trying to update spam blacklist: CodeRemote error: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload (XML error at line 1, check URL) (2) and when I submit URLs to the list, this error:… More »

Is there a way to "Not Allow Comments" in B2evolution as there is in WordPress? Or something even remotely similar? More »

When I reported spam to the central list with b2evo 2.4.x, I got a line saying, spam added to existing record, or this is the first report. I upgraded to 4.0.5, and I continue to have "report to central list" selected. But I don't get any… More »

I'm running version 4.0.5, and I've updated the central spam blacklist, but I'm still getting TONS of referrer spam. Comment spam is not a problem. Just referrer spam. My stats page is pretty much useless. Is there something I'm not doing that I'm… More »

Have a new site and when I ask to update the spam list I get this error message can anyone tell me how to fix this Remote error: The central antispam has moved... See: http://b2evolution.net/news/2006/05/12/the_new_central_antispam_blacklist (899)… More »

When I click on "Request abuse update from centralized blacklist!" I get "Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data." I'm using version 4.0.3 my blog is hosted on Godaddy When I'm… More »

Hi, I just got some Russian pm spam with the subject CodeДумаю, это from the user SeenteeAttirm message contained a like to an aforex.ru subdir with lots of fancy stuff in the url - no I didn't click on it… More »

I just found out this site today: http://www.stopforumspam.com/ Has anyone tried to implement this into b2evolution? Might be a good alternative because it is more widely used. More »

An unexpected error has occurred! If this error persists, please report it to the administrator. Go back to home page Additional information about this error: MySQL error! MySQL server has gone away(Errno=2006) Your query: Record the hit INSERT INTO… More »

Just curious...seems like it's been a long time since there was an update to the centralized list. Will there be a new update anytime soon? I've been blocking and reporting - but I often see the "Added to Existing Reports" message so I'm… More »

I have been able to run the b2evolution blog for about a year now. Just a few days out of the blue I now get this error when i log into the dashboard, I go into Global settings, and then the Antispam tab. When I click on the link on the far… More »

Hi All, I'm referring to my blog from another domain however, recently the above error is appearing. Can you advise on how to prevent that from happening? Thanks in advance fellas (and fellees)... :) More »

Hello my friends from long long ago! I'm soon about to create a commenting system for the CMS I deploy for my clients. And I would like ideas to combat spam. Would these checks be enough? For comments: - Check if cookie [blah] exists, if not set it to a… More »

Seems like a lot of this spam originates from the same IP address. Is there a way to just block specific IPs (or IP ranges) from commenting? If not...why not? More »

I have the turing test plugin on my site, and just thought I'd warn people: someone putting these terms into search engines "leave a comment" "antispam test", is directly looking for blogs using the turing test plugin so they can… More »

I think this is called a "CAPTURE". The same way, when you attempt to register on most forums these days, you are asked to "enter the characters in the image" - is there something similar I can use for those adding comments? Thanks… More »

When did you last update your antispam blacklist? If it wasn't recently, then now's the time to give it a go. It'll keep your stats pure and turn away unwanted spammy comments. Today I've updated the blacklist with a massive load of new entries, most of… More »