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Buddypres Security from fake users

@hkcharlie

Participant

13 years, 2 months ago

My buddypress site is constantly getting new users that must be programs, I get new names like xyin8645u or yihleen67 on a regular basis and I have to keep manually removing them from my site.
It’s driving me mental.

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@hkcharlie

Participant

13 years, 2 months ago

how about enabling SSL for registration? Would it work? how do I do it?

@hkcharlie

Participant

13 years, 2 months ago

I’d still like to know whether SSL would help, but I’m going to work through this blog post at the moment : http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/best-practices-for-preventing-buddypress-spam-user-registrations/

@katengh

Member

13 years, 2 months ago

I have the same issue, @hkcharlie and am looking for suggestions on solutions or preventatives, as well. We find that even after we delete a spammy user or block them, it doesn’t deter them from creating a new profile the next day. Once every few months, a bot of some sort will even send spam mail to all of our users, even though we don’t have a “send to all” function in our Buddypress messages.

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