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 am not sure if this is the right forum section to post this question, if you need to move it, I understand. I have been getting Referred Browser Hits that are listed as /htsrv/comment_post.php They all say they are coming from different URL's but they… 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 swear I searched for this because I remember reading about it before but couldn't find it. my domain starter showing up as a referrer. So when people visit my home page: http://thechristianalert.org and then go to an article - the main domain shows up… More »

The following keywords should be removed from the b2evo antispam list mail.ru - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail.ru rambler.ru - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler_(portal) It's not a good idea to ban the whole domain (even if it's .RU), why don't… More »

Hi everybody, in my blog users have to register if they want to leave comments. Now, one users is a flamer, so I want to ban him. I think the most effective way to ban him is to ban his email, in order to prevent him to register again with the same… More »

Hello again, lately I have problems to put my blogs on the web. Here is that error message: CodeMySQL error! Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) and (latin1_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation… More »

For any of you with political blogs where you might have the word "socialist" appear from time to time, I wanted to let you know I figured out why any comments which included that word were blocked as spam. Drum roll, please.... The word… More »

I'm getting more and more referrers like this: Codehttp://mattandcat.co.uk/reviews/index.php?s=teBdcPAeNcjsubhzaOP&sentence=AND&submit=Search They're being referred from a previous domain where I've set up a htaccess redirect. It seems as… More »

think it was spam almost 50 members joined the blog yesterday their emails are absurd............... like Login: befeusexy Email: bea[@]goalsstudio.cn Login: conotedge Email: yih[@]greenerates.cn Login: reandaapepe Email: lad[@]wavescharles.cn Regards… More »

I use this site forumblacklist is there a way to import there ip list? http://www.forumblacklist.com/blacklist.htm They also a black list here I want to import http://www.dwhs.net/hostingforum/viewtopic.php?t=13127 More »

I have several hundred trackbacks and comments from people wanting to advertise stuff. Deleting them individually is a pain. Is there an easy way (e.g. by selecting multiple checkboxes at once) to delete them a hundred at a time ? Is there any wayt to… More »

Hi Doesnt matter what I do, referrer spam allways appear in stats. Even with pages deleted i get spam appear against code "200" or setting a redirect i get it appear against code "301" How do i stop the spam even entering the site at… More »

Hi - I am a longtime fan of b2evolution, and use it for a few different sites. However one of these, a non-profit site is attracting a heap of spam comments http://worldparrotrefuge.org. Usually I dealt with these by clicking on the ban symbol and… More »

Takaji wrote: Hohoho! Look at what was blacklisted! CodeFound invalid URL: Url refused. Debug info: blacklisted word: [http:] I removed that entry and re-enabled antispam, and turned debug back off. Everything is back to normal!… More »

Trying to update from the centralized blacklist with 1.10, this is what I get: CodeRemote error: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine incoming payload (XML error: junk after document element at line 2) (2) Am I… More »

My host has disabled socket stuff. I can't use trackbacks, ping b2evolution.net, or ping Ping-O-Matic automatically (though I can do it manually). I'm guessing this is the same reason I get an error trying to update the blacklist. Is there any way I can… More »

Since yesterday I'm getting this error in one of my blogs whetn trying to update the antispam list: Error remoto: No data received from server. (6) It also says: Información adicional sobre este erro: MySQL error! Lost connection to MySQL server during… More »

Hi, I installed b2evo a month ago and now I'm receiving the first spam comments! Here is a notification example: CodeBlog: Blog1 ( http://www.mydomain.it/myblog/index.php?blog=2 )Mesaggio: Title1 (… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered Hi - Many of the people that have my blog marked in their blogrolls have blogs hosted on blogspot.com... and as of a little while ago, anytime anyone comes to my blog through a blogspot.com blog's blogroll, they get… More »

I get a lot of spam where the address it comes from or is registered as Google.com. I clicked on the ban icon and when it brought up the report and ban locally and report to the blacklist I unclicked both, obviously I don't want google.com visits… More »

Take a look; http://blogs.balupton.com/index.php?title=view_my_personal_blog&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#trackbacks Suggestions? More »

Someone clicking on a link from idablue.blogspot.com to my blog at http://www.adamsweb.us/blog got this error 403 Forbidden Please stop referer spam. We have identified that you have been refered here by a known or supposed spammer. idablue.blogspot.com… More »

Not sure if this is an upgrade issue or an antispam database issue, so I'll post it here and the mods can move it if they wish. I successfully upgraded from 0.9.2 to 1.8.6 and moved my site to a new host and server with not much difficulty. However,… More »

Ive been using b2 now for a few months and love it. My friend uses wordpress and I keep trying to talk him over to b2. So he finally gave up and was going to download a copy to test it out. He clicks the b2 logo on my site and gets a 403 error from your… More »

Hi, Some time ago my main site, Pneumatus.co.uk got put in the main antispam blacklist and was then removed by EdB i think - This didn't stop it from making it to lots of sites including the main b2evo site which i link to from my blog - I'ce recently… More »

I was just looking over my stats (love that feature! (but how about some pagination and drill down :) )) and saw these three searches reported:… More »

I run the Biker and Motorcycle Lawyer Blog at http://www.bikerlawblog.com I am running version 1.8.1-rc . I have stk customizing my Blog. The spammers are killing me!! I am banning and reporting new spam everyday it seems. If I do an update from the… More »

We had a major problem with spam (350K comments) and after the server went down under the weight of it all this weekend, we decided to get serious with the cleanup. We knocked out 250K by targeted SQL queries, and then went looking for a cleaner… More »

ermm.. some form of my domain name is in the AS list as Im seeing that nifty "403 Forbidden Please stop referer spam .." when I click through to the b2evo blogs Ive linked to AND/OR clicking through to this domain. someone wanna take a looksie… More »

i was unable to look after my blog for about 1 month...and when i cam back..i saw it flooded with spam comments...they are mixed with genuine comments...how can i remove this already existing spam and is their ne antispam tool like word verification or… More »