Author: Anthony M

Anti-Spam pricing update 2022

It’s been 8 years since the last pricing change. Since that moment, spam bots become smarter every day and quality requirements for anti-spam services have greatly increased. We’re updating our prices so that we can continue to offer you the best product quality and support experience.

As always, we offer a range of plans, so new clients can pick a price that works for their budget. New clients can also easily compare services between leading anti-spam services and ensure that the prices are quite reasonable.

Before

From August 10 and on

The new prices will apply on August 10, 2022.

The increase will only affect the purchase of new licenses. Previously paid licenses (before August 10, 2022) can be renewed at the previous price from the Dashboard or by auto-pay.

August 4, 2022
Our client’s review: GARNETCREATIVE.COM

We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is brought to you by @kpstraus from garnetcreative.com.

Easy setup – Works like a charm!

I can’t say enough good about CleanTalk. Reasonably priced. Easy to set up. Works immediately to cut down on unwanted traffic and form spam. I install it on every site I build. Clients who were previously bombarded with spam are totally pleased with the result.

July 26, 2022
Custom text messages for Security FireWall Block Page

We’re glad to introduce the new feature of our Security Extra Package.

When you use Personal Black Lists (including blocking by country) users see a default message “This is the testing page for Security FireWall” but now you can change it. The message can include your email or phone number. In that case, you can collect data about the reasons for false positives.

How to create a custom message

Step 1: Go to your Dashboard => Security. Select your website and click on Settings.

Step2: Scroll down to Message for forbidden visitors and check it. After that you can type any text you want including emails and phone numbers. When finished just press the Update button.

That’s it! Your custom message is enabled and updated. After about 10 minutes you can take a look at your Security FireWall block page.

How to preview your block page

Step 1: Go to Dashboard => Security => Your website Settings (exactly like it was described above). Then click on Testing Security FireWall.

Step 2: After that, your Security FireWall testing page will appear. Here you can preview your custom message and edit it if needed.

Get your Website Security now

July 4, 2022
Our client’s review: MORGENSTUDIO.DE

We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is brought to you by @doriank from morgenstudio.de.

Good solution for spam

Using this on two sites for a while and works extremely good. Recommended!

June 20, 2022
Our client’s story: EKART.CZ

We continue sharing our clients’ stories and today’s one is brought to you by Jindrich Ekart from ekart.cz.

Great satisfaction with the Spam protection CleanTalk product

A large number of spam user registrations have appeared on several Joomla content management sites, and despite the use of ReCaptcha by Google, there have also been problems with forms spam on the BreezingForms component, which is also protected by ReCaptcha.

We were helped by a plugin for Joomal from CleanTalk, which captures a large number of spam attempts to register or submit forms.

June 15, 2022

How to stop spam on Drupal – Webform Forms

CleanTalk added Webform Forms spam protection using direct form integration. So if you prefer to use Webform Forms, be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 7 steps to protect your Webform Forms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your Drupal website. It may not only be Webform Forms forms but also contact forms and many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Webform Forms

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

Go to your Anti-Spam Dashboard

1. Download the archive on the top of the page.

2. Go to “Manage →Extend” section, find and press button “+Install new module“.

3. Choose the downloaded archive from CleanTalk, press the button “Install“.

4. After the process of installation press the line “Enable newly added modules“.

5. In the “CLEANTALK” category find the Anti-Spam by CleanTalk module, tick the checkbox near the name and press the button “Install“.

6. When you enable the module, go to Configuration → Content Authoring. Click it.

Then open the Settings:

7. Copy the Access key from your CleanTalk Dashboard and paste it in the “Access key” field, turn on the options of the module and press the button “Save configuration“.

How to check spam protection for Webform Forms

Do a test registration using this blacklisted email address: st********@ex*****.com

To test if SpamFireWall is working just add /?sfw_test_ip=10.10.10.10 to your site name. Example www.yoursitename.domain/?sfw_test_ip=10.10.10.10 (you must see blocking screen)

Attention! You should test SFW with incognito mode switched on. To enable incognito mode press Ctrl+Shift+N for Chrome, Opera and Safari browsers; press Ctrl+Shift+P for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

How to Add a Website to Your CleanTalk Anti-Spam Dashboard

Please, use this guide to add a website to your CleanTalk Anti-Spam Dashboard: https://cleantalk.org/help/add-website

Please go to the Dashboard to see the Anti-Spam status, add new websites, or manage existing ones!

Please check your inbox to get your account password.

Attention!

If you use the EU Cookie Compliance (GDPR Compliance) plugin and some settings are applied, this plugin will not allow the use of cookies for the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin. As a result, there may be false positive spam protection triggering.

In order to solve the situation, please add all of the cookies listed below used by the Anti-Spam plugin to the exceptions:

ct_check_js
ct_timezone
ct_pointer_data
ct_fkp_timestamp
ct_ps_timestamp
apbct_timestamp
apbct_cookies_test

All CleanTalk cookies don’t contain personal data or data by which a visitor can be identified and are strictly necessary cookies as they directly affect your website security and your guests/visitors/registered users.

That’s it! From now you know how to completely protect your Webform Forms from spam.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your Webform Forms from spam in 5 minutes.

Update

The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

Additional features

CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
Smart 99% protection against spambots.
Always online – 24/7 technical support.
Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.

Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.

June 8, 2022

ChronoForms – Spam Protection for Joomla
CleanTalk added ChronoForms spam protection using direct form integration. So if you prefer to use ChronoForms, be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 8 steps to protect your ChronoForms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your Joomla website. It may not only be comment forms but also contact forms and many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download ChronoForms

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

1. Make a backup of the site files and database.

2. Download the Anti-Spam extension archive via link above.

3. In the main Joomla menu open Extensions → Manage → Install.

4. Click the «Browse for file» button to upload the archive.

5. After installation you will see a success message:

6. Go to plugin settings: Extensions → Plugins → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Enable the plugin and save settings.

7. In plugin settings press «Get access key automatically» button. Admin email address will be used for registration. If you want to use another address click the button «Get access key manually». Fill in the easy registration form and you will receive your key.

8. Enter your Access key in its field, choose protection options and save settings.

That’s it! From now you know how to completely protect your ChronoForms from spam.

How to check spam protection for ChronoForms

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your ChronoForms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your ChronoForms from spam in 5 minutes.

Update

The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

Additional features
- CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
- Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
- Smart 99% protection against spambots.
- Always online – 24/7 technical support.
- Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
June 2, 2022
Anti-Spam Update: Encode email addresses on public pages from bots
Since the Anti-Spam version 5.177, we’ve added a new feature. Now you can encode all email addresses on your pages. Email characters will be hidden visually and addresses will be encoded, so the automatic crawlers will not be able to grab addresses. Visitors can decode addresses by mouse click. This feature helps to prevent direct spam to your email. You can enable this option in the Data Processing section here:

WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Anti-Spam by Cleantalk → Advanced settings

The plugin will encode all email addresses on your pages.

Original view:

Encoded view:

After clicking the address will be decoded:

That’s really how it works. Give it a try and protect all your email addresses on the website.

How to check the encryption already works
1. Open your webpage in your browser Guest (Incognito) mode.
2. Scroll down the page to the email address. Now you should see the email is already encrypted.
To decrypt it, just click on it. If you hover the mouse pointer over the email, you will see the “This contact was encoded by CleanTalk. Click to decode” message. It is a hint for your website visitors. Be sure to test the encryption/decryption in Guest (Incognito) mode, because if you are authorized on the site, there will be no encryption.

Encrypted view (Incognito mode) Decrypted view (or authorized)

Since version 5.184 of the Anti-Spam plugin, each email encoding is logged in your Anti-Spam Log with the status “Decoding approved”.

Feel free to ask your questions in the comments below or email us at we*****@cl*******.org 🙂 If you see the email address in full, you probably didn’t switch to incognito mode in your browser.
June 2, 2022
How to stop spam on Joomla – Balbooa Forms
CleanTalk added Balbooa Forms spam protection using direct form integration. So if you prefer to use Balbooa Forms, be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 8 steps to protect your Balbooa Forms from spam.

Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your Joomla website. It may not only be comment forms but also contact forms and many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Balbooa Forms

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

1. Make a backup of the site files and database.

2. Download the Anti-Spam extension archive via link above.

3. In the main Joomla menu open Extensions → Manage → Install.

4. Click the «Browse for file» button to upload the archive.

5. After installation you will see a success message:

6. Go to plugin settings: Extensions → Plugins → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Enable the plugin and save settings.

7. In plugin settings press «Get access key automatically» button. Admin email address will be used for registration. If you want to use another address click the button «Get access key manually». Fill in the easy registration form and you will receive your key.

8. Enter your Access key in its field, choose protection options and save settings.

That’s it! From now you know how to completely protect your Balbooa Forms from spam.

How to check spam protection for Balbooa Forms

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Balbooa Forms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. Even though you may still see a message that the form was sent successfully, the spam message will still be blocked – check your email to make sure.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your Balbooa Forms from spam in 5 minutes.

Update

The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

Additional features
- CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
- Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
- Smart 99% protection against spambots.
- Always online – 24/7 technical support.
- Logs, SpamFireWall, personal lists, country filters, stop-words, and many others.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
May 31, 2022
Our client’s review: HIZERO.COM.HK

We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is brought to you by @hizerohk from hizero.com.hk.

nice plugin!

its really useful!

May 26, 2022