[Plugin: Fast Secure Contact Form] receiving vCita spam!

The email feature is removed already, a new version was released to address this yesterday. No more emails will be sent. We apologized for any inconvenience. Please stop going on about it. We will even make some more adjustments next week as needed, but is a weekend. It takes time to make and tests changes so as not to cause any errors in the form functions….
The issue in the title of this thread is resolved, I am marking the post as resolved. Thank you.

Hmm..

OK with me.. I will certainly “stop going on about it”, as requested, since apparently the creators think we are all just weird to care about “hidden features” and spamming.

To “stop caring”, I have just “fixed” the problem. I moved my contact pages to an alternate plugin, Contact Form 7. Works beautifully, has a ton of add-on plugins for extra functionality if needed, 6 Mill+ downloads, and it took me only about 5 minutes to swap into my pages.

So.. No need to fix anything from my perspective. I am out.

Just a follow up. I just uploaded a change to remove the email address from the vCita banner URL. All it did was help fill in the email field on the page, but removing it will ease any concerns about other possible uses.

@crudhunter
Totally agree. I’ll look into Contact Form 7 as well. It is a pity that things went the way they did. I sense no urgency about what happened. Best of luck!

@mike
I have thought about this for a few days.
You set this thread to “Resolved”, which in a literal sense is correct I suppose. I don’t want to “go on about it”, but I think the importance of what happened is bigger than FSCF. So I will open a new thread (in this part of the forum, although I feel it needs a broader public attention) about the current implementation of vCita in FSCF. It is not my intention to put you down in any way, but I think it is good to get to an understanding of where the limitations are with what can be commercially done in a plugin. This is not only important for the users of FSCF, but for the WordPress community as a whole. FSCF / vCita is interesting to discuss.
I can understand why you would want to stop the discussion, so I am sorry for “going on about it”.

Mike,
it’s a great FREE plugin and thank you for the vCita addition.
People tend to forget about the price they paid for the plugin. At the end of the day Mike needs to eat too and those who concerned about “trust” need to pay for their own plugin custom development to avoid any affiliation with vcita or hostgator or bluehost or whatnot. Sheesh..I for one am happy with the plugin and happy with the vcita implementation!

Cheers!

I love Fast Secure Form, and use it everywhere. But I tested vCita once, removed it but it seems to be almost spider-like. It has gotten itself into my server and I cannot get rid of it even though the plugin is removed. Worse, each time I install Fast Secure Form even on other sites, with unique databases, it appears integrated into Mike’s great script. In the form editing page, I still have a vCita panel and do not want to have vCita on my server at all. How do I get rid of this invasive thing? Sorry guys, but vCita is more like a virus than a plugin. I’ve never seen any plugin or service spread out across domains, WP installs, databases etc. like this and candidly it’s just wrong. Please help me remove it.

Bob,
We have a vCita option in Fast Secure and a growing number of users who find this very helpful.
We understand vCita is not useful for every Fast Secure Contact Form user though, and we worked with Mike to make sure it’s easy to disable vCita.
Actually – it is not on by default anymore based on requests from this community.

I’m sorry you feel we’re like a virus. We do not spread, or have any information on your domain or WP server – you can see that by looking at our code.

Ran

I just installed FSCF, and one thing I noticed was at the top of the Plugin (for Settings) was this Red & Pink (warning?) banner that stated “Fast Secure Contact Form – You still haven’t completed your Meeting Scheduler settings. Click here to learn more, or Dismiss.”

I first chose to “Click here to learn more” and it went further into setting up cVita for use, and did NOT contain information as I expected to Learn More… What it really did was to seek information for a cVita account and/or setup (Email address, etc.)

I firmly believe that it SHOULD NOT SAY “Click here to learn more” but instead say, “Click here to SETUP the use of cVita” and also to have “Click here for more info on cVita” to truly provide information on cVita.

I then backed out (Backspace or previous page) and then chose “Dismiss“. My thought was that it would dismiss the Red & Pink (warning?) message. I was pleasantly surprised that this actually INACTIVATED cVita. Intuitively, I thought it should have dismissed the Red & Pink (warning?) area and nothing more.

If “Dismiss” is going to DISABLE cVita, then the text should read as such: “Dismiss and Disable the use of cVita”.

I had researched FSCF before installing it and knew I did not want to use or enable cVita at this time. The Red & Pink (warning?) only confused me and when clicking on the current two (2) options, I did NOT get what I expected as they are currently written/described in context.

Just My Two Cents,

Chris (aka PrettySickPuppy)

PS ~ You really, REALLY have the Mother of all Contact Form Plugins. Great Job, Mike. And user comments do help. I depend on them myself for things I’ve written/created in the past. I’ve only recently became a WP convert and believe WP and the multitude of Free and Premium plugins for it just about addresses every need or whim one could want. (Sites are either a Blog, eCommerce, Magazine, or a Portfolio of some sort, and WP covers it all!)