Written by: IT Team on November 1, 2017.
StopSpamApi vs forum spambots
StopSpamApi vs forum spambots: From now on, this latest version 5.0.27102017 has been updated so the comment function for your posts is protected regardless of whether you use http or https for your website.
In this magazine we already mentioned the WordPress plugin called StopSpamApi created by Swedish company
Begacom IT Business. You can read more in this
magazine article and in this
magazine article . This time we can tell that this plugin really works good as protection if you use it in your WordPress. From now on, this latest version 5.0.27102017 has been updated so the comment function for your posts is protected regardless of whether you use http or https for your website.
We made a test without StopSpamApi in period of little longer than one week, right here in this magazine, and we noticed some new comments posted by forum spambots. They all contained commercial content which was / is used for marketing. Of course there was no connection between spammed articles and these bot generated comments. A standard content in this kind of spam message is something about Viagra.
StopSpamApi can stop spambots lite those. Some spam messages are targeted towards readers and can involve techniques of target marketing or even phishing.
Spambots called Forum spambots operate on the web, looking for guestbooks, blogs, forums, and other types of web forms that it can then use to submit content that website owners do not wish to get. (More about spambots you can see on
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot )
Some spam messages are targeted towards readers and can involve techniques of target marketing or even phishing. Often they can look as real messages comparing to the bot generated ones. Other spam messages are not meant to be read by humans, but are instead posted to increase the number of hyperlinks to a particular web site, which can improve the search engine ranking.
Back to the to previous page