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I am getting a LOT of Spam from my contact form, any suggestions?

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9:34 am
April 27, 2012


Finance Yoga

Kentucky

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posts 86

Hey there gang, I am getting a lot of spam via my contact form on financeyoga, in my email. Every day I get at least 10-15 emails from "szpohvsnhp" with a message like "iuehoiuh" with some html that wasn't coded into the email. 

 

Any suggestions as to how to combat it? Thanks in advance.

11:25 am
April 27, 2012


Money and Risk

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posts 73

Just ignore them & delete the emails.  You can't do anything about it. I get a couple of hundreds of those a day.

 

They're testing the WP site to hack in.  My sister's site got hacked, hijacked and redirected to another site.  She ended up deleting the entire site and gave up on blogging. 

 

Just make sure that your password is at least 12 digit/letter comb long. 

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11:29 am
April 27, 2012


Sustainable PF

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posts 2759

Post edited 11:30 am – April 27, 2012 by Sustainable PF


Try a different contact form plugin (one with a captcha).  I used 'Fast Secure Contact Form' and get no spam.

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11:37 am
April 27, 2012


Finance Yoga

Kentucky

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posts 86

wow, i'm changing my password now thanks! I see a lot of people have a captcha code for their contact forums to combat spammers, does that not work?

11:40 am
April 27, 2012


Finance Yoga

Kentucky

Member

posts 86

Thanks, Im checking that plugin out now.

12:51 pm
April 27, 2012


The College Investor

San Diego, CA

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Use Fast Secure Contact Form and make sure you use Akismet and GASP.

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8:14 pm
April 27, 2012


The Frugal Toad

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I also use Fast Secure Contact Form and do not get spam.  I would also recommend installing Login Lockdown plugin to slow hackers from attempting to login to your Wp admin panel.  After 3 wrong login attempts it locks your site.

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3:17 pm
April 28, 2012


Michelle (Making Sense of Cents)

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posts 400

Wow I'm definitely changing my password also.

7:48 pm
April 29, 2012


sooverthis

Kentucky

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posts 1041

The most important thing is to create a new user other than "admin." If you use the Limit Login Attempts plugin, you'll get an email when someone tries and fails to login. 99% of the time, they try "admin" to login.

On topic, I use Formidable Pro with the math captcha addon and spam has disappeared completely.

 

 

 

7:33 am
April 30, 2012


Rianka D.

DC

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Thanks all for your suggestions! Changed my password and adding another email besides "admin". 

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4:43 pm
April 30, 2012


Marissa

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posts 385

I get 1-3 comments a day, but that number is a lot of lower than it used to be. GASP did wonders.

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5:09 pm
April 30, 2012


Money Counselor

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posts 233

Regarding changing the default 'admin' username: The link below is to handy, if a bit dated, instructions for accomplishing this (which I haven't yet tried), but based on the comments, they apparently work–in case any of you are as ignorant as me about such matters and have to Google everything! Wink

http://bit.ly/IDcHs0

You sure wouldn't want to overlook that last step of attributing all posts and links to the new user you set up!

 

Thanks for the tips on the contact form too. I've added a quiz to mine to combat spam. I just hope my readers aren't stumped. Smile

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11:16 am
May 1, 2012


Eric – PersonalProfitability.com

Portland, OR

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posts 2120

Definitely delete your "admin" user and use a different user name plus limit login attempts. CAPTCHA helps as well. Also, backup, backup, backup!

8:44 pm
May 1, 2012


Finance Yoga

Kentucky

Member

posts 86

How do you backup?

9:49 pm
May 1, 2012


Money Counselor

Member

posts 233

Finance Yoga said:

How do you backup?

I'll post what I do in the hopes that others will poke holes in it and I can improve.

  1. I use the 'Wordpress Backup to Dropbox' plug-in to do a weekly scheduled back-up to Dropbox of my site's files from my host's server.
  2. My host offers a database back-up utility. I run that manually once a week, which backs up my database to the host's server. (This database back-up file is included in my Backup to Dropbox routine in #1.)
  3. Once a month I use the host's FTP tool to manually copy the contents of the wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes directories into a wp-backup directory I created on host's server. (Again, all of these, including everything in the wp-backup directory, are included in #1 above, so are backed up to Dropbox.)
  4. Once a month I copy all of the Dropbox files–which I think constitutes my entire site–to an external hard drive I keep in my desk. So I've got it all in two different places, not including and separate from my host's server.
Overkill and redundant? I hope so. I'd really appreciate it if people can identify the vulnerabilities here. The hacking stories on this forum have scared the heck out of me. Thanks.

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4:31 am
May 2, 2012


Finance Yoga

Kentucky

Member

posts 86

That sounds like a great idea. I don't think you can ever be too careful. I have my own FTP client on my computer, should I back it up through there and then go to hostgator to back up my system?

12:30 pm
May 2, 2012


Paul @ Make Money Make Cents

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Thanks @MoneyCounselor

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