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A better anti-spam solution for Drupal 7? [closed]

I have Mollom and HoneyPot set up and working. I tried various Captcha modules with images, etc. I even put a question field in the registration form using Mollom and HoneyPot. Although the answer isn'...
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How to test if honeypot is working on a form?

I have applied the Honeypot module to my site and set it to protect all forms on the site. The problem is I am unsure of how to test it to know that it is working as expected. Can anyone tell me how ...
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Reject Form Submissions with URL in them

I have a client who is using Drupal and has an email contact form. The problem is they are getting spam sent through the form daily. I have tried the Re-captcha plugin, captcha plugin, Anti-spam (...
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Spambots causing server crashes. How do I block them? [closed]

I have a Drupal 7 website on a shared hosting account that uses an Apache server. It is getting continuously battered by spam bots who try to post junk comments and create fake accounts. What methods ...
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Massive spam users and spam entries despite triple layer protection

I'm going a little nuts here. The entire point of my site resides on the idea of people registering for the site to contribute content. But I get spam accounts created at least once every minute. Im ...
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Flagging users as spam and giving a reason for doing so

I am creating a community site using Drupal7. The users of my site should be able to report other users as spam users. For this I am using the Flag module. I have created a flag called Report User for ...
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How to add Google adsense Adlinks at the middle of the post

Hello I need to put adsense adlinks at the middle of the content or between paragraphs but I am not getting any modules to do that.Currently i use Content Injector to display image ads at top and ...
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Unknown User Registered into my system

I'm currently doing recruitment system by using drupal 7.. In my system, the user (anonymous) need to register before they can log in into the system. For log in and registration, i use LoginToboggan ...
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In Drupal 7, how to prevent *.php files from being upload to the /files folder when its required to have 777 permissions?

Hi one of the sites im working on just recently got comprised and a bunch of php files got upload somehow or someway into the files folder and started sending out alot of spam. I know during ...
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How to disallow users from changing their emails?

I need this because it makes life a bit more difficult for 'professional' spammers who just change their emails after logging in, so that the can use that very email for the next registration, after ...
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Invoke Mollom CAPTCHA directly

I have a custom form within CTools form wizard that I would like to use Mollom on. Is there an API function I can use to place it in the Form API on that page?
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Workaround for: Message rejected due to DMARC policy for yahoo.com

Using Drupal 7 on CentOS 6 with stock Postfix 2.6.6 and since recently any mails sent by Drupal on behalf of users with @yahoo.com mail addresses are bounced hard: Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 ...
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How do I know Honeypot is working on my custom module form?

I have a custom module that renders a form. In hook_form_alter() I have added honeypot_add_form_protection($form, $form_state, array('honeypot')); Though, when I perform 'Inspect Element usnig chrome ...
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How to auto purge old unapproved comments?

I would like to know if there is any way to automatically purge old unapproved comments on cron run. The requirement is -- I have turned on email notification on new comments. I would like to ...
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How to detect Adblock on my Drupal website?

I want to be able to detect if the user is using adblock plus or any blocking ad extension. How can I do this in Drupal ? Why ? I'm building a website that is going to contain ads on a block (so far ...
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How to add a custom antispam questions in User registration Form

Recently I am receiving some user registration Spams...I use reCaptcha module but I want to add a anti-spam questions while User registers registration as you see in many forum sites. Does anybody ...
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Programmatically enable Mollom protection for a form

I want to enable Mollom protection for a number of forms in my development environment, and then export that configuration to QA and to Production without touching the Admin interface in QA or ...
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remove existing spam comments

I have a Drupal 7 site. This is a live site with both legitimate comments and spam comments. From what I can tell, most of the spam modules work when a comment is submitted, but don't go back and look ...
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How to stop spam in comments

I've installed reCAPTCHA module but spam still bypass my security and leave nasty comments. What should I do? How to block them?
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insert advertisement block within views list

I have a view that output the content nodes as grid. (instigram style). How to insert an advertisement block in a random location within the views list. Node Node . . Advertisement . . Node Node
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Spammers on Drupal 6 site

I think Im getting some spammers adding user accounts to my site. I've been checking the users section of my site daily and I'll see these strange email addresses. So I check on the reports and find ...
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How can I allow anonymous visitors to submit content?

I am working on a website that displays a list of historical events. Most of the events have been added by a small group of users that manage the site. However, I would also like to add the ability ...
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How can I get form_ids for all forms my module implements?

I have a custom contact module that we periodically add new forms to - how can I get a list of all forms implemented by this module? I'm integrating mollom and I want to just loop through all my ...
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How to prevent comment posting when it has specific words in it?

I´ve searched for all Drupal 7 modules that try to give some SPAM protection, but haven´t found what I need, maybe I´ve overlooked something? I need to prevent anonymous comment posting when comment ...
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How to retroactively apply Mollom spam filtering?

I've been asked to clean up a site that's been running for a few years, and has accumulated some spam in addition to a lot of valid content. I've just installed Mollom on the site to help reduce ...
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spam bot attacks

I have multiple spam bots that try a couple hundred times a day to access my website and post comments. I have reCaptcha installed and somehow they are able to register, and sometimes actually post ...
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Mollom and Spamicide are not slowing down spam registrations

I have a drupal 6 site. I'm using both Mollom and Spamicide. Mollom is doing a great job at stopping spam comments but spambots are registering at an extremely high rate over 6 per minute. ...
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Obfuscation or e-mail spam protection for content displayed through Views module

Currently, SpamSpan seems to work well for anything outside of Views. Having a hard time finding a solution for e-mails that are displayed through the Views module. Any help would be very much ...
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How to delay sending emails using Rules to avoid being considered as a spammer?

I created a rule for users, who subscribed on another user to get messages of this user new content: Events EVENT After saving new content Conditions ELEMENTS None Actions ELEMENTS ...
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How to prevent from getting spammed in a contact form [closed]

I have the captcha image module and an email address keeps spamming me in a website feedback contact form. I do not know how to get their IP address and I do not want to take down the form for the ...
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Drupal Sending tons of Spam email

Apparently one of the modules installed on my drupal site has been sending SPAM emails from my server as in (name)_(lastname)@(myservername).com , it managed to send 1000 email and queue 97,000 emails ...
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Honeypot in custom webforms (manual)

I'm making a custom form (fields are added by using drupal_render), but since I have Honeypot enabled for all my web forms, when I submit a form, I get the following message: There was a problem ...
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Protect site from flooding when user login is attacked by brute force

I've been experiencing issues with bots trying to force their way into the website I manage. It seems to be a daily occurrence the the flood system is being triggered (I'm on D7). I'm happy the the ...
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Spammers apply for an account, how to disable other users from applying for an account on my website

I am using drupal 7 and get messages like these several times a day: Account details for sizemutter at "my Website Name" (pending admin approval) sizemutter has applied for an account. I am afraid ...
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A module to limit number of posts a user can make during a set period of time?

I have a number of sites that allows users to post nodes and comments, however bots are getting a hold of these and having their way with my site. I recall seeing a module a while back (but cannot ...
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Rules module user/register

I keep getting spammed/attacked looking at reports/db. Anonymous users keep trying to go to /user/register (but I disabled registering). So being annoyed by anons still trying to going to that url, I ...
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How to stopping spam when using Print_mail (submodule of Print)?

I am using the Printer, email and PDF versions module to be able to email and print articles. This module allows you to send an email to anyone. The issue is, that this feature opens it up for ...
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adsense code does not work

I have put the following code from adsense in a block with full html filter. <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- newad -...
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Tracking outbound Google Adsense clicks

I would like to be able to track how many clicks are done on Google adsense ads from each node of my site. The purpose of doing so is to be able to do revenue sharing with the authors of each article ...
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On D.O., where to file reports for spam users?

On drupal.org, where does one file reports for a suspected spam account? My google searches have turned out results about a spam module and such.
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How to create a rule that unpublishes comments that contain links?

I'm trying to create a rule that does the following. Event: After saving new content type Forum Topic Conditions: User has role 'authenticated', and Content body contains link (this is the part I ...
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Is it possible to use multiple captcha based on language selection?

I have a multi-language site.I wish to integrate captcha based on which language is selected. Suppose if i selected language1 then captcha1 language1 => captcha1 language2 => captcha2
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How can I restrict access to my website via web services only?

I am getting lots of spam in my website. Here are some modules I tried as a remedy: Honeypot Http BL No luck yet however. Now I decided to make the site available only for web services only, ...
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Drupal sending SPAM, can't log in anymore

My unupdated drupal website has been sending large amounts of spam. I have now blocked the website with HTTP Basic authentication, but I can't seem to get in my admin account of the website. I've ...
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How do I detect spam from among published comments?

My spam prevention modules had to be disabled while I was fixing a problem. Meanwhile, I was attacked by numerous spam bots and now have thousands of published spam comments on my site. Is there a ...
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Recommended tools/techniques for monitoring for spam attacks on multi-site and shared servers

I'm managing a number of servers with dozens of Drupal sites, some with a single multi-site Drupal installation and others with dozens of separate Drupal installations. We're constantly running into ...
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How to limit number of nodes a user can create per day?

In order to curb ardent spammers in Drupal 6, I'd like to limit the number of forum nodes that an authenticated user can create per day. So for example ordinary users can not create more than 3 posts ...
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Using Invisimail within a Contemplate Template

I'm in Drupal 7 and using Contemplate and Invisimail, but I can't figure out how to get my emails to be obfuscated. I think it is because the display of the node is using the contemplate template, ...
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Can I truncate “field_revision_body” without breaking the site?

I am cleaning up a client's Drupal 7 site that has been badly hit by spam. Both Drupal's Backup & Migrate module and the CLI tools such as mysqldump and mysql runs out of memory when trying to ...
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Reject e-mail address from specific domain in simplenews newsletters e-mails

i have a lot of spam users request account with mails on specific domain,i used the User restrictions module to make e-mails on that domains not allowed, but only to the registration .i want to know ...
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