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  • CleanTalk Anti-Spam Released a New Version of the Spam FireWall

    CleanTalk company Inc is a cloud service protecting websites from spam bots, has announced the launch of a new version of the Spam FireWall which is designed to block spam attacks on the web sites.

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

    Spam FireWall – 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.

    CleanTalk’s Spam FireWall Features

    -Protection from spam bots without access to the web site. Spam FireWall blocks most of the spam bots before they load the page of the website.

    -Reducing the load on a web server. In order to post spam, many spam bots load the page, this creates a burden on the database and the server, and when a large amount of spam attacks it can have a significant impact on the performance of the website.

    -Protection against HTTP/HTTPS DDoS attacks. This is one of the most common types of DDoS attacks with the aim to load a web server so that it was not able to handle all other requests.

    -Protection against RPC-XML attacks. One of the most common types of attacks on sites running WordPress in order to pick up the username and password of the administrator of the web site or to organize DDoS attacks. Spam FireWall’s SQL Protection provides an affordable, automated solution for protecting from a variety of SQL injection attacks.

    -Spam FireWall’s logs allows you to monitor the service work and reporting all incidents.

    -Installation for 60 sec does not require modification of configuration files and others.

    -Spam FireWall is available for web sites on WordPress and Joomla

    Spam bots messages (comments) often disguised as ordinary users posts, but contain advertising links or text. The main objectives of such messages are the translation of the user to a malicious resource, advertisement, or by the links to raise the position of their site. This compromises the site and can spoil the reputation, the search engines lower the position of the site in the search results. That is why reliable protection from spam bots is only way to prevent the undesirable effects of cyber attacks. CleanTalk provides reliable protection from attacks and spam bots and promotes strengthening information security throughout the world.

    CleanTalk Spam protection FireWall based on the use of private data black lists of IP addresses.

    The main consumers are the administrators and owners of web sites, the solutions offered by CleanTalk allows to obtain an effective and automated solution to many security problems of the web sites and to save time for business development.

    Another area of use is the use CleanTalk for hosting providers, as it can reduce the load on web servers to save resources and costs.

    About CleanTalk

    CleanTalk is a SaaS spam protection service for Web sites. CleanTalk uses protection methods which are invisible for site visitors. Connecting to the service eliminates needs for CAPTCHA, questions and answers and other methods of protection, complicating the exchange of information on the site. Their solutions are reliable, easy and efficient. The module is completely invisible to the visitors and allows you to permanently abandon the ways of protection that impedes the communication of visitors to the site (CAPTCHA, question-answer, etc.). CleanTalk allows you to automate protection against distributed from spam and registration spam bots.

    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.

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    CleanTalk Spam FireWall

  • Manage Personal Black/White Lists

    CleanTalk informs you about the occurrence of an opportunity to manage personal black/white lists. You can view, add, and delete their items in the Control Panel->Logs

    How it works

    Go to CleanTalk Dashboard
    Select web site and click “Logs”

    Each records has menu for manage, if you mark record as “Spam” – this IP/Email will be added in your personal BlackList and will be always blocked on your website

    If you mark record as “Not Spam” – CleanTalk will not check this IP/Email

    To view personal lists click “Personal blacklists” under the record.

    Here you can change status – just click on status and it will be changed. If you delete item then CleanTalk checks it as usually. You should delete or change status of both IP and email because if you delete only IP so that visitor will be blocked because his email is still in your personal blacklist.

    Also you can add other IP or email in your personal BlackLists or WhiteLists. Enter the necessary IP or email then select status and click Save.

  • CleanTalk is one of the fastest anti spam plugins

    Everyone knows about why the faster your site loads, the better your customer experience is, the higher your Pagerank will be, and the higher your site will convert. Speed is becoming increasingly important in Search Engine Optimization , conversion and user experience. Today, site speed is one of the most important ranking factors on Google. A site that loads slowly will lose visitors and potential revenue.

    Every plugin adds a bit of complexity to your site, and it’s important to install well-developed plugins from a reputable source.

    If one plugin is slowing your site down, you can find a faster one or remove it altogether. In general, we always want to have the fastest set of plugins possible for the features you want the plugins to add!

    There are different ways of improving your site’s loading performance, an important parameter for the performance site to install well-developed plugins from a reputable source.

    Among anti-spam plugins CleanTalk Anti-Spam is one of the fastest. Despite the large plug-in functionality, the developers manage to optimize the performance of the plugin so that CleanTalk faster than most analogs. This contributes to the cloud service architecture, as all calculations take place in the cloud, not on the server, the server receives the finished result for further action.

    About CleanTalk

    CleanTalk is a SaaS spam protection service for Web sites. CleanTalk uses protection methods which are invisible for site visitors. Connecting to the service eliminates needs for CAPTCHA, questions and answers and other methods of protection, complicating the exchange of information on the site. Their solutions are reliable, easy and efficient. The plugins are completely invisible to the visitors and allows you to permanently abandon the ways of protection that impedes the communication of visitors to the site (CAPTCHA, question-answer, etc.). CleanTalk allows you to automate protection against distributed from spam and registration spam bots.

    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.

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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.

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    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 *@*******lk.org, these messages will be blocked.

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    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”

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    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.

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  • 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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