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Well, I am talking the spam again for weblog and CMS (content management systems). The first case I dealt with was the trackback spam on the serendipity weblog system. I've given a solution regarding that and hundreds of spams were killed.

Now it comes to Joomla. A couple of days ago, I noticed that there were a lot of comments appearing on my website. Obviously they were not manually left by real web users since firstly it's really 'A LOT' generated in a short period and secondly all comments were about a same bored topic. The backdoor was found in AkoComment, one of the most popular comment components for Joomla. AkoComment did have done a good job of preventing spams from my site for quite a long time. However, the spamming techniques have advanced faster so that eventually the security gate was broken and hundreds of comments flooded in.

I hate spamming! When I saw these disgusting comments, I felt totally uncomfortable from head to toe. So I decided to take actions to beat them. An easy way to go is to uninstall AkoComment therefore completely shut the gate. But I dont want to do this because I still need real comments from friends.

Another way I have to go is to pack AkoComment to upgrade its security level. After searching and testing for hours, I have found this MathGuard which successfully provides anti-spam protection for Joomla forms. The details of how to install and configure MathGurad is here.

After installing MathGuard, now I can see from time to time there are spambots hanging on my website. They try to leave comments to my blog posts but can not get through. I feel really happy by seeing that! But not to forget, the site may be only safe for the moment. Because it depends on the competition between spam and anti-spam techniques.

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