Hello, I'm receiving some spam through my RS Forms Pro form which has google captcha v2, but submissions of forms seem to be bypassing that. I'm using htaccess and WAF, I've blocked the IP addresses, they are using the same 6 or so IPs, but Admin Emails still being delivered. I'd like to try Geo Block of ru, but I can't find the plugin or how to activate Geo Block -- sorry to be a bother I've looked on your site and in Support, but cannot locate info on how to find / use it. Could you point me in the right direction please.
#34101 Geo Blocking
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Latest post by on Friday, 25 December 2020 20:17 CST
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 00:12 CST
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
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We removed geographic blocking as well as all IP geolocation features from our software in early 2020 for the reasons explained in our announcement.
Back to your issue. Let's see what happens and what we can do about tit.
Since you already know the IPs of the spammers you can blacklist them in Web Application Firewall, Site IP Disallow List. Moreover you will need to go to Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF and make sure that “Disallow site access to IPs in the IP Disallow List” is set to Yes.
Disallowed IP addresses are not allowed to do anything on your site and do not generate any emails – except for invalid logins because of the order Joomla generates the internal events Admin Tools hooks into. If you are receiving emails from Admin Tools please tell me what is the Reason listed and make sure that that IP is one of those you blocked so I can further help you.
Another thing you can do to reduce spam is to enable the Project Honeypot integration in the “Project Honeypot” tab of the Configure WAF page. You will need to create a free account on Project Honeypot. The default settings there are aggressive enough to stop a lot of spam.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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Friday, 25 December 2020 20:17 CST
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