For the time being till I get a better solution, I have used Discussion->Settings and checked “User must be logged on to comment”  to prevent the onslaught

Aksimet works extremely well. If you are running our admin bar plugin, it uses Akismet to check for spam in forum posts too.

Mr Papa said
Aksimet works extremely well. If you are running our admin bar plugin, it uses Akismet to check for spam in forum posts too.

I see. Any good alternative as i haven’t subscribed to aksimet ?

It’s probably the best option. It’s pretty easy to get an API key. It’s an odd way they do it but it works.

Okay. Will go for it.

let us know how you make out…

Hey Andy & Steve,

I had installed Akismet on my site and though the spam comments have stopped. However, spam bots have started registering on my site heavily. There are hundreds of them registering everyday. I am using captcha in my registration form? Any suggestions on what can I do to stop these bots from registering. By the way, I am also using Bad Behavior plugin(that used project honeypot)

Registration is a site level operation and strictly controlled by WordPress. Akismet wont help with that although I am not sure if Bad Behaviour does – long time since I have tried it. There may be some other WP plugins that may help – I really don’t know. Spam registrations are a bit of a way of life and in my own experience tend to come in waves.

We DO have the SP spam registration removal plugin which can help you clean them out periodically. We wrote that to keep our own sites clean!

I see. So the SP spam registration removal plugin would even delete the genuine users who haven’t posted on the forums at all or have posted long back ?

Only those who have registered and never made a post at all – see the rules as shown in the panel. That’s one of the downsides – there may be some genuine users who registered but then never used the system. We have no way of knowing if they are real or not – but you do get the opportunity to review the list of those accounts that qualify for deletion and manually uncheck those you want to keep.

Thank you for the responses Andy. Will let you know what worked!

Anything extra you come up with then please do share. This is a problem that effects everybody of course.

Try and install this plugin – it got many features to help agains spam and hackers – please read carefully on every feature you turn on.

Better WP Security 3.5.3

Cheers ken

Interesting…