Stop The Guestbook Spam

[bobhilke]

I'm getting hit bad with guestbook spammers. How can I prevent them from making guest book entries? Is there a way to have guest book entries go into a queue that I can approve or decline? It is time consumming to delete once entered because you have to do a transmit for each one. It would be faster if the admin functions provided for a checkbox so you could select all the entries at once that need deletion. Any ideas for how to make things better?

 

Thank you,

Bob Hilke

[TCH-Bruce]

You have several options to help stop Guestbook spam.

 

Make sure you are rinning the latest verison of the Guestbook.

Install a captcha (image verification) before accepting a comment.

Upgrade to Lazarus Guestbook.

[TCH-Don]

Lazarus Guestbook allows you to moderate guestbook posts

and edit or approve before they can show up.

 

two features I love,

Webmaster can review entries before they appear (optional)

Easy integration into your website using the supplied include file

 

It has stopped all of my GB spam.

It can use your current advanced GB database with no loss.

[TCH-Rob]

I am thinking of using this as well even though through other methods I have recieved no SPAM in my AG for several months.

[carbonize]

Bob which guestbook script are you using? If it is Advanced Guestbook from proxy2.de then make sure you have updated to 2.3.4 and then you can download a fix from www.carbonize.co.uk/AG or you can upgrade to Lazarus which is a fork of AG that I make. If it is some other script then maybe I can take a look at writing a mod for it.