=== FV Antispam === Contributors: FolioVision Tags: antispam, spam, akismet Requires at least: 2.9 Tested up to: 3.0.1 Stable tag: trunk FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin with no extra CPU load. All spambot comments go directly to trash, allowing Akismet to just deal with human spam. == Description == FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin. FV Antispam moves any spambot (machine written) comments directly to the trash and allows Akismet to just deal with human spam. What makes FV Antispam better than any other solution is the very low CPU load. FV Antispam will not burden your hosting or slow down your server. Other effective antispam plugins may get your hosting cancelled. Really. It happened to us with WP SpamFree, that's why we wrote FV Antispam. = The Problem = Our studies on our own sites have shown that for every 50 human spam comments a popular weblog will have up to 10,000 machine generated spam. With FV Antispam, Akismet finally becomes a useful tool again allowing you to browse your spam folder and pull out any Akismet false positives. If you use just Akismet, bots fill your whole spam folder with thousands of comments. It's nearly an impossible task to browse through hundreds or thousands of comments to find one or two false positives. = Why choose FV AntiSpam? = * Dead simple. Just install, turn on and go. FV Antispam doesn't need configuration. No redundant and dangerous options or cryptic choices. * Effective. * Reliable. * Zero false positives. * No additional CPU server load (unlike WP SpamFree for instance) = How does FV AntiSpam work so well? = * No detectable signature for spam bots (unlike the NoSpamNX author, we believe zero profile is important for long term success) * Blacklisted comments are put into trash * The spam is moved directly to trash * Works hand in hand with Akismet, not trying to replace the collective system but supplement it. * Stops only the machine spam * Doesn't stop human spam which Akismet will move to spam folder. * Keeps the spam folder almost empty so you can quickly go through the spam folder to rescue any Akismet false positives. This is impossible without FV Antispam as the spam folder of any popular site would have thousands of bot posted spam every week or even every day. [Support and more information](http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/fv-antispam) == Changelog == = 1.8.2 = * New function - redirect pingbacks and trackbacks notifications to different email address * Or disable pingbacks and trackbacks notifications at all. = 1.8.1 = * Bugfix for some templates. = 1.8 = * First public release == Screenshots == 1. FV Antispam Bee settings == Installation == You can use the built in installer and upgrader, or you can install the plugin manually. == Frequently Asked Questions == = All of my messages are recognized as spam, what could be the issue? = Please make sure that your host uses an up to date version of PCRE library. Version 7.9 2009-04-11 should be enough. Also check the pcre.backtrack_limit value, 100000 seems to be a good standard value on most hosts. = Why do you put the detected spam messages into trash? = This way your spam folder is not overwhelmed with all the obvious spam messages. So you can look at this folder to check the spam messages detected by Akismet for example. And with new Wordpress versions, you can also check the trash folder, to make sure that our plugin works correctly and only deletes what's really a spam. = Why are you putting blacklisted comments into trash? = Same reason as above question, if a comments is already blacklisted, you don't want to think about it in spam folder.