Not blocking spammers

If you are using a proxy server (and some fire walls) the plugin has trouble figuring if you are a spammer. On this site I stop around 400 a day and 2 or 3 a week get through. There may be something about your site that is confusing the plugin.

Keith

Thanks Keith!

Any easy steps to follow to check this whether I’m using a proxy server and what firewalls are in place? Would this all be in my cPanel?

Thank you!
Drew.

I would suggest that you download the beta version at https://www.blogseye.com. I had a chance to do some work on it the last few days and I found a few bugs.

Keith

Okay, will do – thanks Keith!!

Hey Keith,

So far no change in the registrations with about 25 new spam registrations yesterday… Is there anything else I can try?

Thank you for your time!

Drew.

The only thing I can think of is that you are using some kind of plugin for registration, or else the theme has a custom registration page.

Stop spammers looks at the standard input from a registration form (plus a couple of special cases). If you have a special registration plugin or form, then Stop Spammers won’t see the users coming in.

Keith

For my education are you talking about comment spam or registration on the site? If it’s the later then why do you allow registrations for your site unless you run a forum…

Just curious…
Oh and if you are wondering if it works, this is from my dashboard:
Stop Spammers has prevented 172402 spammers from registering or leaving comments. Yes that is since I started using Keiths plugin back in 2011 or 2012 and it’s stopped almost 200,000 spam comments. No one is permitted to register on the website… They can only sign up for email.

Hey Keith,

I am quite certain I don’t use any of those things (will confirm this once my server is back up and running!), the most it would be is a plugin for a verification code…but I think I removed that. All registration forms are by the theme though – I’m using the Custom Community theme.

Folgerj, that’s a good question – until recently I wasn’t allowing any registrations (it’s these that are the problem now, comment spam is taken care of), however I have installed an online exam plugin called WatuPRO and in order to charge a fee for sitting the online exam, people have to register as a “student” and then they can pay. This is the only way the plugin uses that functionality of collecting a fee for the exam. Unfortunately this means I have to set it to “anyone can register”…

Unless you have another solution?

Thanks for your help!

Have you tried using some of the captcha plugins? For example:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wm-simple-captcha/

Alternatively, if you don’t want people to become users you can handle paid quizzes by selling a password for a page that has the quiz and is password protected. But I think the captcha way is much easier and better.

Hey Prasunsen,

Yes, I do actually have the simple captcha plugin installed but it doesn’t appear to be working. I logged out and created a test user registration and it wasn’t there. I agree – if the simple captcha could work that would be best.

Thanks for the idea! I’m going to keep investigating the simple captcha to see if I can get it to work.

Okay – figured it out…rookie error, sorry guys! Was using “really simple captcha” not WM simple captcha.

Thanks folks! Let’s see how this goes. ??

I see this in my log:

2014/04/29 17:39:25 	[email protected] 	60.168.154.20	xiaojiahuo 	/wp-signup.php 	SFS, 2014-04-15, 238
2014/04/29 17:40:21 	[email protected] 	60.168.154.20	xiaojiahuo 	/wp-signup.php 	Cached good ip
2014/04/29 17:51:00 	-- 	                60.168.154.20	xiaojiahuo 	/wp-login.php 	Cached good ip

First the IP is blocked due to SFS check, then it becomes cached good IP!
I think the problem is with the captcha. I disabled it, will report the outcome.

I guess blogseye.com is user #1.

Stop Spammers has stopped 468773 spammers since installation. Sites with high traffic probably have done better.

Keith