Category Archives: Antispam

Understanding Spam … figures, business model, techniques, protection

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Lately I got really bothered by Spam in my various forums, blogs and emails. It regularly costs me hours of anti-Spam protection setup, filtering false positives, reconfiguring my Captchas, and cleaning my databases. So I decided to better understand this … Continue reading →

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How to install reCaptcha on your MediaWiki

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Muriel Salvan Leave a comment

Lately I just ran into heavy spamming among all my MediaWiki’s wikis. It first began with plain anonymous spamming (I wanted to leave anonymous editing available), then I forced account creation, then spammers were automating new account registrations before updating … Continue reading →

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