Block any email with a link in it

Hi.

Blocking emails containing a hyperlink is not yet foreseen, as the plugin just separates emails sent by bots from those sent by human beings.

Do you have some more specific requirements for that issue? (i.e. identifying fishing attacks driven manually, forbidding hyperlinks in a certain forum, …)

Probably I may add an option for that.

Cheers, Matthias

In that case I would suggest being able to enter the phrases that one would like to trap in an email and flag it as spam. Any contact form that contains links is most likely spam. No one that I know would contact you and send a link for you to go to… I do it in my software and it would be an great help for others…

Do I understand you correctly? You are suggesting two separate things:

1. Flagging submissions that are containing predefined content given by certain phrases or words
2. Flagging submissions that are containing hyperlinks

Up to now for the plugin not a single break through has been reported. Therefore the required extra effort for processing text analysis did not yet seem to be necessary.

Cheers,

Matthias

Hi again.

I’ve just checked your anti-bot-solution. Probably I’ll try it these days ??

Cheers, Matthias

Hi, no it is only one thing, hyperlinks can be a word or phrase (https:// and https://)). I do it because we were getting a bunch of messages from our contact form that contained hyperlinks and of course they were all SPAM.

Great! try BotBanish sometimes. We are constantly making improvements.

I do it because we were getting a bunch of messages from our contact form that contained hyperlinks and of course they were all SPAM.

Did you even try this plugin in explicit mode? I mean, up to now more than 2000 websites are using it without a single breakthrough having been reported.

The point is, that a word filter doesn’t make any sense, as the plugin is based upon a proof-of-work approach. This approach is aiming on the business model of a spam bot: Bots usually don’t take the effort to calculate the PoW-puzzle as they spam as many sites in a certain period of time as possible. In contrast to more simple approaches such as filters, honeypots, IP-blocker, behaviour-tracker and alike, this technique is blocking bruteforce-attacks from botnets effectively.

I don’t mean it is impossible to break through. But this makes only sense if an attack is assigning your site dedicatedly, i.e. if it is economically reasonable to take the calculation effort. This is for the most sites outa there is very unlikely. And even then it is easy to just raise the required calculation effort.

I wonder is, what is your intention to ask in this forum, when you have developed a plugin to stop spam on your own?

Cheers, Matthias

My intentions are to find the best solutions for our customers. Every solution does not work for every customer and we like to know exactly what is out there to help, even if our solution is not what the customer wants. There are MANY different ways to get things accomplished and it would be foolish to think that we have the only and the best way to do this. We work for our customers, our customers do not work for us.

No one product EVER handles everything that is out there, and it would be foolish to believe so. Sometime more than one product may be needed to form a protection solution. We aim to find what is best for the customer, not what is best for us…

BTW: Those hyperlink messages slipped through your system but were caught by our system. This is why more than one option may be needed and it is best for our customers that we find out what that may be.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by randem06.
• This reply was modified 9 months ago by randem06.