Author Topic: stopforumspam.com is unhappu (Read 932 times)

Anonymous · « **on:** December 12, 2009, 06:23:57 PM »

This message showed up today on stopforumspam.com's home page.

Attention WordPress Users
We have become aware of a module for WordPress that is abusing what we provide here, for free.

The "AVH First Defense Against Spam" (versions 2.2 and below) plugin is the sole abuser of this website in checking every connection before any content is served.

This website is here to provide access to IP/username and email information for when users register or post messages/comments and NOT as a general IP firewall.

If you use this module and your blog starts to appear in our daily top 20 API users, then you can expect to find your host banned. This will slow your blog and webserver down as it attempts to connect to the API.

You have been warned !!!

Anonymous · « **Reply #1 on:** December 13, 2009, 11:57:01 AM »

Yes, Im very unhappy and the coder knows and said that he would change the mod. until then, wordpress blogs are goign to find themselves ip firewalled

Peter · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2009, 11:51:42 AM »

I can understand the unhappiness.

We've worked it out and I have changed the plugin(v 2.3 and up) which should solve the load at Stop Forum Spam.

Anonymous · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2010, 10:48:48 PM »

I have just had to remove the "Stop Forum Spam" part on my site at http://www.abcdiamond.com/australia

It stopped me, the Admin, from posting a comment to one of the posts !

It had the message something like "Cheating Huh"

Peter · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2010, 08:26:10 AM »

This can happen sometimes when the page you want to post a reply to is pulled from cache or if your status as a user changes from login to logout or vice-versa.
The plugin uses a nonce made up of the user ID, if present, and the post ID. A nonce lasts for 12 hours.

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