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    • How to protect your WordPress site against spam and spam bots

      How to protect your WordPress site against spam and spam bots

      There are many plugins to protect against spam, almost all of them have some disadvantages. In our view it is optimal to use the cloud service CleanTalk.

      Since this is a cloud service, by obtaining and analyzing data from over 100,000 web sites, CleanTalk very effectively protects against spam. The algorithms analyze the behavior of spam bots increase service efficiency up to 99.998%. This is one of the fastest anti spam plugins and does not load the server and database.

      To start use CleanTalk on your WordPress site, follow these steps:

      Go to WordPress Dashboard->Plugins->Add New and in the search bar, type CleanTalk and click Install.

      install CleanTalk

      Activate the plugin and go to settings CleanTalk.

      To connect the plugin to the service, you’ll need your Access key. To get the key click on the button “Get access key”.

      Get key

      You will be taken to the website CleanTalk. You can change your email to register for the service.

      Register for an account

      Push the button and get your access key.

      CleanTalk anti spam setup on WordPress

      Return to the plugin settings, insert the access key and click “Save Changes”. The installation and configuration of the plugin completed, changes in Advanced Settings needed in rare cases.

      To test the plugin, log out of the account administrator and go to your website. Write a test review or make a test registration with e-mail *@cl*******.org, these messages will be blocked.

      test message

      Next, you should get a message about blocking

      forbidden

      Great, your website protected from spam bots!

      Similarly you can check any form in your website.

      Additional features CleanTalk. Dashboard, view logs.

      To view service logs, go to CleanTalk Dashboard. Or log in to your WordPress Dashboard->Settings-CleanTalk and click “Click here to get anti-spam statistics”

      get stat

      If you have any questions you can always contact us. We will be happy to help you.

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    • Short statistics of six months 2015

      We decided to bring intermediate results of six months 2015.

      This is the results observed in spam attacks.

      The number of spam attacks prevented on the sites for CMS:
      WordPress 241 753 033
      Joomla 35 511 344
      phpBB 4 019 935
      Drupal 2 633 882

      Of six months 2015 CleanTalk prevented 331 395 138 spam attacks.

      As we observe the reduction in the average number of spam attacks per day on site for about 40-50% compared to 2014. Perhaps, this is due to the fact that spam bots can’t post spam on the site and don’t want to spend more time and resources.

    • Spam FireWall – how to reduce CPU usage on website and to block DDoS attacks

      Spam FireWall – how to reduce CPU usage on website and to block DDoS attacks

      The CleanTalk SpamFirewall manages and filtres all inbound HTTP traffic to protect web sites from spam bots and to reduce the load on the web servers.

      CleanTalk has got an advanced option “Spam FireWall” for WordPress and Joomla!, this option allows blocking the most active spam bots before they get access to web site. It prevents loading of pages of the web site by spam bots, so your web server doesn’t need perform all scripts on these pages. Also it prevents scanning of pages of the web site spam bots.

      Therefore Spam FireWall significantly can reduce the load on your web server.

      Spam FireWall also makes Cleantalk the two-step protection from spam bots. Spam FireWall is the first step and it blocks the most active spam bots, CleanTalk Anti-Spam is the second step and it checks all other requests on the web site in the moment before submit comments/registers and etc.

      How Spam FireWall works

      • The visitor enters to your web site.
      • HTTP request data is checked of the nearly 5,8 million of certain IP spam bots
      • If it is an active spam bot, it gets a blank page, if it is a visitor then it gets a site page. This is completely transparent to the visitors.

      All the CleanTalk Spam FireWall activity is being logged in the process of filtering. The logs will be available for viewing in CleanTalk Dashboard since 10/15/2015.

      Spam FireWall DDos Protection
      Spam FireWall can mitigate the HTTP/HTTPS DDoS attacks. When an intruder makes use of GET/POST requests to attacks on your website. Spam FireWall blocks all requests from the bad IP addresses. Your website will issue give for infringer a special page instead of the website pages. Therefore Spam FireWall can help to reduce of CPU usage on your server.

      Get SpamFireWall

    • Spam Is Still a Big Problem, 99.6% comments/register are spam bots!

      CleanTalk is dynamically developing cloud service of web-sites protection from spam. It is the powerful tool that becomes a serious competitor for leaders like Akismet and Mollom.

      Spam is a big problem for Web sites or blogs. Even just launched WordPress Blog is likely to receive traffic from spam bots.

      In 2013, the share of bot traffic was 61.5%. In comparison with 2012 the growth of bot traffic was 21% and this growth continues. This non-human traffic is search bots, scrapers, hacking tools, and other human impersonators, little pieces of code skittering across the web. (Source Incapsula)

      Without effective automated counter measures, dealing with spam is time consuming, annoying and painfully slow.

      CleanTalk seeks to provide reliable protection, thus contributing to strengthen information security in the world. Every day CleanTalk processes about 2.5 million requests. In general only 0.4% are comments, registration, etc. from real visitors and the remaining 99.6% are spam bots!

      CleanTalk detects and stops spam witout CAPTCHAs or other math-based, human/bot testing techniques. Analyzing behavioral factors, the parameters of filling out forms and structure of the text, CleanTalk has a very high efficiency. According to the founder of the project Denis Shagimuratov “At 2.5 million queries the service makes a mistake in 40-45 cases, i.e. CleanTalk detects spam with 99.9982% accuracy. We constantly monitor these errors and make adjustments to our algorithms”, so the team is aiming to improve those figures over time.

      All of this makes CleanTalk powerful tool against spam and it is easy for users at the same time.

      Novadays CleanTalk is generally recognized by users who say CleanTalk is one of the best anti-spam services.

    • CleanTalk anti-spam is now sponsoring the open source community Joomla!

      CleanTalk anti-spam is now sponsoring the open source community Joomla!

      We are proud to partner with Joomla!, one of the most popular and fastest growing content management systems.

      To help community development that promotes professional development. It integrates of thousands of developers, webmasters, designers to take full advantage of the plethora of new resources, people, knowledge, etc.

      We understand the value and impact of Joomla globally and promote its use internationally.

      With a one-click install CleanTalk, it’s easy to protect your Joomla! site against spam bots.

      About Joomla!

      Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

      About CleanTalk

      CleanTalk is a SaaS spam protection service for Web sites. CleanTalk uses protection methods which are invisible for site visitors. The team CleanTalk has been developing a cloud spam protection system for 4 years and has created a truly reliable anti-spam service designed for you to ensure your safety.

    • Extend to storage time of detail of the service for 45 days

      CleanTalk company pleased to inform you that we have made it possible to extend storage time of detail of the service. The previous period of 7 days for some users of the service was not enough and we have decided to increase it, and now you can plug an extended detail, which will be available within 45 days.

      To enable extended detail, go to Control Panel> Profile and mark the check box “Keep history 45 days”.

      CleanTalk reminds that these data can be useful for improving the service and feedback, identifying incorrect response filters, view details on each post/registration (IP (country), email, text messages, date/time processing and URL of the page on which was made comment). Also, you can see the details of the activity of spam IP address is blacklisted, it is enough to go to the link.

    • CleanTalk releases official anti-spam module for IPS Community Suite 4.х.

      CleanTalk company has released official anti-spam module for IPS4. The new version features optimized programme code and improved antispam check for better spambot protection.

      The module allows forgetting about CAPTCHA, question-answer, puzzles and other methods, that complicate website experience. Those protection methods decrease website conversion significantly.

      CleanTalk uses check methods that are invisible for the user, user or spam bot behavior is transferred to CleanTalk server for analysis, and the server decides whether it’s a spambot or a regular user.

      CleanTalk saves time and resources spent on moderation and verification of questionable users or comments. Unnoticeable Protection from spam and registration forms, which does not require the visitor to prove who they are, increases the conversion in registration and is not annoying.

      You can now download the new module version for IPS Community Suite 4.х.

      Setup manual anti-spam for IPS4.

      For clients’ convenience, the company offers free mobile apps, enabling you to control and receive information about registrations/comments through your mobile device (for Ipad/Iphone and Android).

      The company is already providing automatic spam protection service to popular CMS: Joomla, phpBB, WordPress, DataLife Engine, SMF, IP Board, vBulletin, VirtueMart, Drupal, XenForo, 1C Bitrix, MediaWiki and prepared class libraries for PHP, Perl, Python, NET, Yii.

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    • Hostname provides free CleanTalk to all clients

      Hostname provides free CleanTalk to all clients

      Hostname.club has already announced Cloud anti-spam CleanTalk Solution for Website owners and designers today. This is a free extra bundle costs $8 per year per domain which provides maximum protection from spam bots.

      Why CleanTalk?

      CleanTalk is a simple and convenient form of comments/registrations without annoying CAPTCHAs and puzzles. Website owners who run websites that allow comments face a major problem: spambots tend to flood comments sections, filling them with ads and irritating regular visitors. Some websites use captchas and other tools to filter out spambots, but this also annoys visitors who just want to leave comments without having to jump through hoops. Clean Talk can scan every incoming comment automatically using cloud-based analytics, decide whether the comment is coming from a visitor or a spambot, and then either block or allow the comment.

      All shared in severs are suscribled to Cleantalk premium membership. Cleantalk is ready to be used. Just need to install plugin for popular scripts like WordPress, Joomla,.. for your websites you are protected by this great service!

      Which services are protected by Cleantalk?

      “We know what problems spam bots brings to our clients. By using Cleantalk, Hostname.club wish to provide the maximum protection from spam to the websites” said Khoi Nguyen, the CEO of Hostname.club. “This convenient anti-spam solution is already included in our hosting, reseller hosting and master reseller hosting packages from now”.

      Hostname.club is a team of committed Server Experts, Systems Engineers, Server Administrators, and Support Technicians who truly bring great services to all clients. In 7 years of hosting, Hostname.club is grown to serving thousands of clients all over the world. Along with anti-spam Cleantalk, we also provide a lot of benefits to customer like WHMXtra, Softaculous, Cloud Backup, etc…

      By Hostnameclub.

    • The new version 1.30 of the anti-spam mod for SimpleMachinesForum

      The new version 1.30 of the anti-spam mod for SimpleMachinesForum

      We are pleased to inform you that CleanTalk released an updated version of MOD for SMF.

      Mod version 1.30 has been released.

      • Updated library for working with API Cleantalk.
      • Disable logging responses from CleanTalk in SMF (default). New option in mod settings added to enable/disable logging.
      • New protection against bots at Javascript.
      • Implemented system upgrade mode for versions 1.21 (current) and up through the system package manager SMF. Now you do not need to uninstall the old version of fashion, to establish a new one.

      Extension may download from official catalog.
      http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/i … p?mod=3851

    • A new kind of WordPress anti-spam plugin settings page

      We have simplified the plugin settings page and added new elements.

      1. Add visual display protected forms and the user can immediately see that the protection is active.
      2. We’ve removed in a drop-down advanced settings, these settings for 99.99% of the users  are optimal and do not require changes.
      3. In the status bar we’ve added  plugin statistics of processed events in the past 24 hours. You’ll always know how many comments was added and how many spam attacks was stopped. Statistics has a link to the CleanTalk Control Panel to view detail and service management, as well as a quick link to the plugin’s settings.

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