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    • Statistics for the personal blacklist

      Dear Customers,

      CleanTalk informs you that in the dashboard query statistics is available on the personal blacklist.

      You can track the number, date and time of all attempts to use forms on the website by users from your personal blacklist.

      To view the statistics, go to the dashboard CleanTalk https://cleantalk.org/my/ select the website and go to Settings->Personal blacklists.

      Remember that if you mark a request as Spam in the CleanTalk dashboard, the IP/email will be added to your personal blacklist.

      To view existing entries, you can follow this link https://cleantalk.org/my/show_requests?int=week

      If you have questions, we will be happy to answer them!

      Supervise your anti spam through Dashboard.
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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.

      CleanTalk

      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.

    • 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 *@*******lk.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

    • Select a language for service messages

      We have added an ability to select the language for service messages. These messages are issued to visitors at the service’s event handling online.

      Depending on the audience of your site, you can use next to display messages:

      English, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Polish, Portuguese and Italian.

      To change the language for service messages, go to Control Panel-> Settings-> API response language

    • What makes us different from other spam protection services? Why choose us?

      What makes us different from other spam protection services? Why choose us?

      1. No Captcha or other actions required from the user. This lowers the conversion, irritates the customer and makes them leave. They are unsafe and let a lot of spam in, transferring the problem form webmaster to the customers, which means that you have spam problems and you don’t know what to do about them. You don’t know how many customers you’ve lost because they couldn’t insert symbols right.
      2. It’s more reliable than similar systems. Those systems let the spam in; they have different operation principle and can’t be as reliable as CleanTalk. CleanTalk algorithms estimate user’s behavior and the way he fills out the forms. These multilevel checks enable CleanTalk to reach high efficiency in spam protection. With other protection systems, real users might be mistaken for spam, they put all spam messages in a spam folder and you have to look through it all the time not to miss a client. This folder has to be cleaned all the time, which leads to more load on the website and it starts to work slower.
      3. CleanTalk is more reliable than protection based on JavaScript check. It’s worth mentioning that spambots can run JavaScript and their number grows, meaning that spam grows too. Some customers turn off the JavaScript support in their browsers for safety purposes, these customers leave without you even knowing about it.
      4. Clear statistics. CleanTalk extremely open statistics for all incoming registrations/ comments, which gives you full control of the process. You will never miss a message. In order to inform clients, CleanTalk sends weekly report to your e-mail, containing information on the number of approved and spam registrations/comments. CleanTalk provides you with diagrams for your every website and you can see the dynamics of spam activity or rightful comments/registrations on your website.
      5. CleanTalk protects all forms at once – comments, registration, feedback, contact, reviews. There’s no need to install a separate plug-in for a specific form.
      6. Easy to install and use. Even my grandma can do it.
      7. CleanTalk operates automatically, which saves your time and resources, letting you focus on developing and improving your web-site and business without being distracted by other matters.
      8. CleanTalk is a premium service. This guarantees that plug-in won’t disappear the way others do, you can always contact technical support and your request will be processed promptly. We seek to provide high class service and cannot afford to distribute a free version, since they always have limitations, which influences the quality of spam protection. Purchasing the year of service, you save a lot more and get:
      •         100% protection against spambots
      •         Time and resources saving
      •         More registrations/comments/visitors
      •         Protect several websites at once at different CMS
      •         Easy to install and use
      •         Traffic acquisition and user loyalty
      •         24/7 technical support
      •         Clear statistics
      •         No captcha, puzzles, etc.
      •         Free mobile app

      Everyday we save time for something good for you, like:

      • Have a cup of coffee
      • Read the news
      • Buy donuts

    • Anti spam analytics

      You can monitor the dynamics of spam attacks and proper comments on the page of analytics service in the Control Panel.
      We tried to make a visual and convenient statistics. You can view a summary of the last week, month and year for all your sites or for each one separately.
      Share your stats with your friends.
    • Even more opportunities to provide protection from spam on Joomla.

      Even more opportunities to provide protection from spam on Joomla.

      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.

      Many don’t think about the importance of reliable spam protection. But, it’s something we all must face. Yes, eliminating spam attacks takes time, and valuable resources. However, not providing such protections looks bad in the eyes of clients. And, it can lead to a loss of reputation.

      Just think what would be done to owners of Joomla web sites, if spam attacks mislead clients, directing them to malicious websites. Intruders add loads of malicious content to web sites and there is no time to eliminate it. Spambots are the problem for every website on the Internet and CleanTalk is meant to get rid of such situations. CleanTalk is a preventative system of spambots protection, invisible to the website visitors and providing 100% efficiency.

      CleanTalk Company is happy to announce to all Joomla users, that they have launched the newest version of anti-spam plugin.

      In the new version, CleanTalk is able to employ the spam protection mechanism for free forms (contacts, comments, registrations). Before, CleanTalk could only provide protection for the most popular or standard forms. The employment of protection for the new forms took time and complicated the development. Considering the great number of plugins, it seemed impossible to create protection for each one separately.

      The new plugin mechanism enables support to various forms of different authors. The idea is for the plugin to monitor actions on websites and every time there’s a registration or a new comment, CleanTalk estimated the parameters of the form filling and the visitor’s behavior. The service checks these parameters for signs of spambots and makes decisions, whether it’s a person or a spambot. The spambot protection for free forms is set via the plugin settings.

      CleanTalk sends a weekly report of all activity. It lets you access a record of each (trans)action, at any given moment. Users can also see the dynamics of spam attacks and useful comments. With the help of a mobile app, you can control and receive information about registrations/comments directly to your mobile device (available for iPad/iPhone and Android).

      Considering the amount of comment and registration plugins that are susceptible to spam attacks, by one means or another, CleanTalk becomes an important tool in provision of spam protection, and which is necessary for companies to keep in their arsenal.

      Forums and blogs without spam

      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.