Spam Filters & Capchas not working?

[petersreviews]

Hello Everyone!

Every day I get tons of spam. Fortunately it doesn't go public but it shows up moderated where I have to delete hundreds manually. Even if I turn off comments, comments still come through. Will using several different spam filters at the same time negate each other?

I'm running:
v1.6 - all files verified

Every spam message goes to moderate but this happens with emergency shutdown too! The Capcha box comes up but you can leave it blank and the comment still goes through. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Peter

[Timbalu]

Oh well, thats odd, as this is a core plugin (not easy to update as an additional plugin) and we do not really know why this happened now and no one complained earlier. We have this in a german thread too at the moment.

It may be happening in conjunction with another plugin, like spamblock bayes, but first you could try to change line ~945 in the serendipity/plugins/serendipity_event_spamblock/serendipity_event_spamblock.php from

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        // Check for global emergency moderation
        if ($this->get_config('killswitch', false) === true) {

to

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    if (serendipity_db_bool($this->get_config('killswitch', false)) === true) {

and see if that helps. We still are investigating if it might be something else.

Good luck!

[petersreviews]

Hi Timbalu,

I just made that edit to my serendipity_event_spamblock.php file and I'll see if it works. I'm wondering if this is either a permissions problem or maybe with the template I'm using.

Peter

Update: Spam comments are still coming through. I even tried a different template. Is there any way to bulk delete these comments instead of just going through the administration page?