Fighting Spam in a Joomla Powered Website

Comment by Ivo Apostolov on March 10, 2010 at 4:33am

moovur does the job, akismet as well

Comment by Ajmal Afif on March 10, 2010 at 9:30am

and the link to your blog post? :P

I'll have not pick mine yet so I'll share my experience with whatever I chose (looks like moovur will be it since I am only using com_user, for now that is).

For commenting is yet to be decided. Since none commenting system integrates well enough with a site that combines both k2 and FlexiContent. Now Zoo by Yoo looks very very promising though. WP for Joomla is too costly just to have that "Reply to this comment" function.

Comment by Parth Lawate on March 10, 2010 at 9:51am

Its there actually maybe not so prominent. Here you go
http://tekdi.net/Blogs/Services/Software-Development/CMS/Joomla/Fig...

Comment by Joomify on March 10, 2010 at 12:47pm

I added reCaptcha to the registration and "contact us" form on the sites that I manage. That helped a lot.

Comment by Lawrence Meckan on March 10, 2010 at 8:52pm

My advice: Any form of captcha, like Flash, should only be used when absolutely all other avenues have been exhausted.

That said, I've had intermittent false positives on Akismet and Mollum, talking at length with their engineers on how a Spamcop/SPF protected domain can get blacklisted.

One of the more interesting finds I've come across is this:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/authentic...

which looks to be the best solution since it hits login/comments and anything else when used in conjuction with Bad Behaviour, Akismet or Mollum.

Comment by Lawrence Meckan on March 15, 2010 at 12:01am

Leo, it's a good tool. However, in my travels the earlier PHP-based editions of it (not primarily Joomla) were based under Creative Commons, so there is a risk of tainted code/incorrect listing on part of JED. Already approached Paul for clarification but got no answer as yet. Line by line codebase comparison using Winmerge does highlight the problem, though.

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