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spam has hit buddypress websites

@codegene

Participant

12 years, 9 months ago

Since last day my website started getting lots of members which looked like a bot registering on my website. I kept on deleting them, but new profiles are being created after a few hours. I googled one of those spam usernames (i.e ludingam -google url- http://goo.gl/pEhsx ) and found that the same profiles had been created on several buddypress websites in a span of 2 days. What exactly is causing this? Is this due to some malware in a buddypress plugin or a work of a buddypress spammer?

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@david100351

Member

12 years, 9 months ago

We could do with updated recommendations of antispam software, right enough.
Fortunately, deleting spammers is easy and take their posts down the tubes with them, but it is a chore.

@rcain

Participant

12 years, 8 months ago

i am about to try this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
– it looks very good. anyone tried it with BP yet?

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