An anti-spam plugin that checks IP, email and username against StopForumSpam, Project Honey Pot, SORBS and SpamCop blacklists during registration and login.
SpambotCheck by Aicha Vack (vi-solutions) stops spam bots at the point of registration or login on a Joomla site. It does not read message content; instead it compares visitor data with public blacklists, so it also works where no text is submitted at all. On forums and blogs it pairs well with content filters that act after a user is signed in.
Features
- Lookups against StopForumSpam, Project Honey Pot, SORBS and SpamCop, each enabled separately.
- Checks on registration only, or on both registration and login.
- Data checked: IP address, email and/or username.
- Handles CDNs such as Cloudflare when detecting the real visitor IP.
- Local whitelists and blacklists for email and IP, with regular expressions and a helper plugin for testing them.
- A log of blocked attempts that can be viewed and edited, email alerts and flags on suspicious registered users.
- Translations into English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Estonian and Portuguese.
Compatibility
- JED lists Joomla 3, 4, 5 and 6; the current version 5.2.0 targets Joomla 5 and 6 with PHP 8.1 to 8.4.
- Last updated in JED on 14 October 2025.
- A dedicated build of the plugin ships with the Visforms form builder.
