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 »

Spam and everything about it is covered again and again on these forums. The posts in this area are meant to provide some solutions. This is not the place for questions about spam Questions regarding any of these methods should go in the appropriate… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x How can I disable the Antispam input checking feature? I prefer to block spam by moderating comments, not with a fixed banned keywords list which will always block some valid things too. I was able to turn it off for certain… More »

Hi - I would like to be able to moderate comments if they contain one specific word in the text. My understanding is that the anti-spam plugin targets URLs rather than the whole text. (For context, the banned word is my name - one of the rules of the… More »

I haven't seen anyone doing this in the forums, but I presume someone's tried... I have done a honeypot before but for a manually coded contact form. I don't know where to begin fiddling for b2evolution's comment system or contact form. Anyone have any… More »

I'm getting a lot of spam at the moment and although I've spent a good deal of time blocking IP ranges and so on, nothing is working. One thing that would kill it like a stone is to ban any comment that contains any one of a certain range of words in… More »

b2evolution doesn't allow mass-editing of comments or IP banning, so you're forced delete each comment individually. The blacklist tool is limited to 5 character so lots of short common spam words can't be used to block comments. The only CAPTCHA plug… More »

Bad Behavior is wonderful. I used it back when I was on WordPress and got Walter Cruz's plugin for b2evolution years ago. Bad Behavior is important because it catches spam bots before they're unable to rob your bandwidth. Walter Cruz hadn't updated it… More »

I'm not a fan of CAPTCHAs, so implementing them on my blog to reduce spam comments wasn't really something I wanted to do. Instead, I implemented a simple question for visitors to answer in v4.1.4. Not sure how accurate these instructions will be for… More »

I run several blogs and would like to welcome new visitors with a :hoover div DHTML Layer that contains my video greating and adsense code. Somebody knows how to do that ? all help greatly apretiated! idea: <div style="width: 80px; he… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered I'd just like to know how to quickly and simply delete all the comments awaiting moderation. I've been deleting/reporting spam comments all morning and I am sick to death of it. Any help would be appreciated. More »

My b2evolution Version: 4.1.x Getting pretty tired of cleaning up spam every day... I have read just about every post in the forum about spam and many are quite old... I am running the current version, have edited some things in .htaccess, have… More »

It appears that somewhere between May 21st and May 28th, the index.php file for my site had a snippet of PHP code prepended to it. It appears to be tracking user agents, remote_addr, along with where they were going on my site....it also checks if the… More »

I'm getting currently flooded with spam with keywords such as lÃ¥n and ipad. Can we please get an update to reduce the number of characters to 4 or ideally 3? THX! More »

My b2evolution Version: 4.1.x I was wondering if there's a (free) plugin or something, that I could ignore referer information from certain IPs (whether legitimate or spam)...and not forbid them. Namely I'm thinking of detecting if users are coming from… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered Hi, I'm Mike from http://www.BotScout.com. BotScout is a free anti-bot, anti-spam service that has plugins for most of the major forums, blogs, and CMS's like SMF, phpBB, VBulletin, Joomla, Drupal, etc. We'd love to… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x Hello I have versioin 3.3.3 and I am looking an up to date plugin that can filter the trackbacks. + I am trying to find the spam karmaplug in on the net but I just can not find it. Can somebody tell me where it is? Thanks More »

After spending some time removing spam comments from my site, I decided to tinker with the comments a little bit. I edited _item_comment.inc.php such that the link is rendered as plain text (i.e. without the A tag); thinking that spammers will quit… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered I recently installed Mollom on my Drupal site http://mollom.com and it is doing what nothing else has been able to do...block all spam comments. Check it out; I think they have the right idea, using a network to learn… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x My blog (marunchak.co.uk) is being inundated by spam, advertisements etc... I currently have recaptcha implemented, as you can see for yourselves, but it is doing nothing to help. It's gotten to the point where I am seriously… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x The spam problem has gotten so bad on one of my blogs that in desperation I turned comments off. How come I'm still gettting spam comments? What now? I've already done all the techniques in the whoo thread, first post. More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered Hey everyone. I have reCAPTCHA setup on my blog but am looking for a bit of help. I don't know a thing about PHP really or b2evolution script. The plugin is working well for the most part but I was hoping for a couple… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x For about a month, I've been getting referrer spam- lot's of it. Is there a setting I changed by mistake? I have the "stop determined spam" box checked. More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x I currently use Turing test on my site, but I keep getting spammed by people who use the smilies on the comments form, type in a bunch of random letters and then submit the comment. How can I avoid this? Should I just remove… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered does anyone have an idea how to remove the 403 forbidden cover page from the yahoo index? http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-tyc7&p=charlotte%20bankruptcy%20sell%20my%20house&type= my blog is… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered A few days ago I was searching for a way do recheck and delete all spam comments with one click and didn't find anything. So I decided to make a hack ;) Save this code as hacks.php and upload in conf/ directory. Don't… More »

Version: 2.4.1 I get a lot of hits from BS IP addresses and domain names. Is there a way to block them? Even if not from within B2evo, like for example at the web server level? More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.x I'm fed up with referrer hits like this one: http://mattandcat.co.uk/reviews/index.php?s=SHGYFuehUfPQI&sentence=AND&submit=Search These spammy hits are obviously machine-generated, put a load on my system, and achieve… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered Apologies if this has been covered but I couldn't find it anywhere. At the moment anyone can comment and they are set to draft. I would ideally like to be able to moderate 'visitor' comments but allow registered… More »

My b2evolution Version: 2.4.0 Hi, I use the captcha 2.0 plugin on two b2evolution installations. On one installation everything just works fine, but on the other one there is no captcha image displayed in Internet Explorer (I've tested with IE7). There… More »

My b2evolution Version: Not Entered (http://prize.zzl.org/vote.php?id=45)HERE ARE A VERY ADVISES BUT I STILL GET SPAM. WHY. HELP. More »