Author: Denis Shagimuratov

  • The accident at night Aug 9, 2013

    The accident at night Aug 9, 2013

    At night on 09.08.2013 from 19:30 until 02:30 (GMT) was not available database of IP blacklist, Email, domain addresses. As a result of the specified time the efficiency of spam filtering was below the multiyear average. The most heavily accident affected users with modules phpBB3 version 3.5.10 and below, along with the WordPress 1.4.4 and below.

    The accident is caused by physical hang database. We have made several improvements on servers automatic moderation, in particular increased the lifetime of the data in a local cache server up to 12 hours (was 1 hour), it will allow to avoid similar accidents in the future.

    Thanks!

  • Policy changes for spam filtering

    Hello!
    In this week we have updated the automatically moderation servers. In the new version of the server software made 2 important changes.

    Offtopic tests
    Firstly, disabled offtopics filtering for message not containing spam. Let me remind you that these signs are – finding author in black lists, offline, JavaScript, suspiciously little time spent on writing the comment.

    In other words, a check of офтоп is included only for suspicious messages and aims to make an additional filter for cut-off spam messages.

    In the future we plan to enable the enable filtering офтопов including not spam messages, hope this option will be useful for large sites, forums, for which it is important to reduce the time of moderation-messages from site visitors.

    Spam filtering for suspended accounts
    The second important change is the policy of filtering spam in cases of suspending the account (either on a daily limit of approved requests tariff, or over the limit approved requests to a manual renewal).

    In the new version spam requests from suspended accounts are filtered in full, i.e. not limited extent. But if the registration is legitimate (approved by the service), then such registration will be sent to manual activation of account of the administration of the forum/site. If the message is not spam (approved by the service) it will be sent to the administration of the site/forum.

    Thus service CleanTalk protects the site from spam, regardless of the state of the service account, in cases of suspending the account owner of the site may have to manually activate the new accounts and approve the message, but it will also be delivered from the manual processing of spam account, messages.

  • Updated Anti-Spam plugin CleanTalk for WordPress

    Updated Anti-Spam plugin CleanTalk for WordPress

    In the new version of anti-spam plugin for WordPress made the following changes:

    • fixed bug with displaying PHP warning for sites with PHP version 5.4.
    • fixed bug with checking comments Administrators, Authors and Editors of this blog.
    • plugin settings «Filter messages containing stop-words», «Language system messages» removed from the control menu plugin. These settings are now available in the control Panel service.

    Archive cleantalk-spam-protect.2.4.10.zip.

    PS
    We welcome Your feedback and are estimated plugin CleanTalk on the website wordpress.org (registration required)!

  • Updated anti-spam phpBB MOD

    Improvements in the new version of the anti-spam module for phpBB:

    • A new user account will be sent to the manual activation of the forum administration with an alert by email, If no server availability automatic moderation, or suspend access to the service.
    • Optimized PHP code in the base class and hook.
    • Deleted spam protection in the profiles of users of the forum.

    Bugfixes in the MOD:

    • Fixed bug with looping functions ct_error_mail();
    • Fixed bug with the connection template ucp_sms_check.html.

    We remind you that before updating module, you need to make a backup of the database and forum files! Update the module can be through Automod, after removing the previous version.

    Archive module cleantalk_spam_protect_v_3.7.16.zip. Instruction manual upgrading from previous versions update_3.6.15_to_3.7.16.xml.

  • Updated IP.Board anti-spam hook to version 1.1.2

    Anti-spam hook for Invision Power Board (IP.Board) updated to version 1.1.2, change log:

    • Enhanced JavaScript test on the client.
    • Removed unnecessary error screens.
    • Improved diagnostics server errors – as they arise forum administrator will receive an email with a description of the error and request number CleanTalk.

    XML file with hook here cleantalk-ipboard-1.1.2.xml

    Traditionally we remind hook opportunities:

    • Filtering by IP addresses.
    • Filtering e-mail.
    • Checking that client JavaScript enabled.
    • Check the duration of the registration form.
    • Record attempts to register in the log Spam service logs.
    • Compatibility with IP.Board version 3.X.
    • Invisible board protection without CAPTHCA and Q&A.

    You can test the hook at cleantalk.ipbhost.com.

  • HTTP links in comments, pingbacks at WordPress

    Today we’ve upgraded Automatic moderation servers, the new version (2.19.98) has feature of automatic learning preferences of the owner of the site in the following cases:

    1. Publication comments with HTTP links in the text. Previously, these messages Automoderator publicates on the site (blog/forum), the new version takes into account with the preference of site owner. Another words, if the owner removes on the manual moderation from the publication the message, then all of the following messages (with HTTP links) Automoderator will send to the manual moderation queue. Conversely, if allowed to publish posts with links, there Automoderator would publish such messages
    2. Earlier pingbacks Automoderator to the article published in the absence of spam. The new version Automoderator, as in the cases of the messages takes into account the preferences of the owner site, and therefore is able to either publish or post on manual modeartsiyu pingbacks.

    Changes on item by point 1 are available in all versions of the client, the changes on item point 2 plug-ins are available in WordPress since version 1.4.4.