=== Spam Master ===
Contributors: TechGasp
Tags: firewall, spam, malware, brute force, security, protection, anti-bot
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 5.6
Requires PHP: 5.4
Stable tag: 6.2.2
License: GPLv2 or later

Spam Master is the Ultimate Spam Protection plugin that blocks new user registrations and post comments with Real Time anti-spam lists.


== Description ==

Spam Master protects Wordpress based websites from millions of known spam emails, domains, ip's and words by blocking user registrations, comments, contact forms, etc. Spam Master uses RBL technology (real time block lists) constantly being updated.

Fast loading, Spam Master is modular... it only loads what is needed to keep your website secure and clean.

**Makes no use of Javascript or Ajax to keep your website fast and conflicts free**


= Real Time Block Lists =

Spam Master scans logins, registrations, comments and contacts via online real time block lists with millions of threats already listed and constantly being maintained and updated.

= Website Firewall =

Spam Master blocks malicious activity before it even reaches your website or admin pages. By activating Spam Master Firewall your website automatically gets protected against dangerous exploits like HTTP and HTTPS DDoS (denial-of-service), SQL injections, brute force attacks and many others threats.

= Spam Buffer =

Buffer technology greatly reduces server resources like cpu, memory and bandwidth by doing fast local machine checks. Also prevents major attacks like flooding, DoS , etc. via Spam Master Firewall.

= Whitelist Exemptions =

Spam Buffer Whitelisting excludes spam checks from safe Emails or Ip's, it also removes these safe Emails and Ip's from your local Spam Buffer.

= Antibot =

Spam Master is a powerful anti-bot shield that easily detects and blocks robotic spam form submissions via real time bot checks. It also detects pesky robots running on browser macros, addons and extensions, headless browsers and browsers without javascript, sessions or cookies.

= Administrator Pages Protection =

Spam Master blocks DOS resulting from brute force attacks or sql injections trying to login or search for admin passwords.

= What is Spam Master Learning? =

The module comes packed with automated Spam Learning function that will make your website a fighting spam enforcer by providing registration ip's and emails for analysis and spam lists inclusion.

= What is Spam Master Alert Level? =

It's an easy and interactive way for you to know if your website is being targeted by spammers and the level of intensity or danger of this targeting. The update is done daily and automatically via RBL (real-time blacklist) servers sync. The alert levels range from 0 (low) to 3 (high) intensities.

= Spam Probability? =

Spam Master includes Spam Activity Probability, in conjunction with Alert Level, Spam Master advanced detection heuristic analytics will provide you with an approximated percentage of all spam activity in your website.

= Google reCaptcha =

Spam Master includes google re-Captcha that uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive CAPTCHAs to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on your site, it does this while letting your valid users pass through with ease. Spam Master google reCaptcha can be optionally and individually activated on login, registration, comment and contact pages.

= Honeypot & Honeypot Version 2 =

Spam Master includes TechGasp technology Honeypot Version 2 a new concept of “smart dynamic input fields” that adapt and check for things like javascript, sessions and cookies alongside the traditional honeypot traps set to detect, deflect, and counteract attempts at unauthorized use of your website, a honeypot consists of data that appears to be a legitimate part of the site, but is actually isolated and monitored, and that seems to contain information or a resource of value to attackers, who are then blocked, colloquially known as "baiting" a suspect.

= Logging & Clean-Up =

As good linux freaks we've implemented into Spam Master an healthy "obsessive compulsive" logging. Everything related to security gets logged and is accessible via the module Logs & Statistics page. On the other hand, in the module Protection Tools page we've also implemented full control over all logs retention time to keep your website fast & clean.

= Privacy Policy and GDPR =

We are an European Union company that fully complies with GDPR. We take a step further as described in our privacy policy, No data is shared with third parties operators.


> Free Trial then $9 per year

> Spam Master is a free plugin which works with the premium non-free Real Time Block List Servers (RBLs). This plugin provides a service [software as a service wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service).

> Take a free Tour [Trial License](https://www.spammaster.org)
> or,
> get a full [RBL License](https://www.techgasp.com/downloads/spam-master-license/) for peanuts a year.


= MORE FEATURES =

* Protects Wordpress from User Registrations (spamming bots, users or both)
* Protects Wordpress Comments from (spamming bots, users or both)
* Protects Wordpress Pages and Posts from malicious trackbacks (spamming bots, users or both)
* Spam Master is Contact Form 7 Ready. Uses pro-active scan of your email contact form before triggering any mail function
* Spam Master is Woocommerce Ready. Eliminates all credit card fraud by preventing known sources of spam from registering via woocommerce registration. It also includes wooommerce spam signatures.
* Spam Master marks as spam comments wrongly cleared as safe by akismet, check screenshots
* Spam Master checks for emails, domains, ip's, ip ranges and spam words
* Uses real time scan from millions of known spamming sources (effectively blocks those nasty hotmail, live, msn and outlook registrations)
* Professional logging of all actions regarding security
* Includes Analytics, Statistical information to keep your life easy
* Spam Master Learning makes your Wordpress an Anti-Spam enforcer by collecting data for analysis
* Spam Master allows you to whitelist emails and ip's to be exempt from spam checks
* Spam Master allows you to customize the frontend blocked registration message
* Spam Master allows you to hide the website field from your theme comments form
* Spam Master includes Character Blocking. Option to individually activate cyrillic, chinese, asian, arabic characters, immediately blocks comments or contact form 7 messages that use these characters
* Spam Master includes the famous Google reCAPTCHA and Invisible reCAPTCHA on registration, login or comments pages and posts
* Spam Master includes Honeypot fields for registration, login or comments forms
* Spam Master includes Firewall technology, blocking misfits before they even enter your website
* Spam Master includes Signatures
* Spam Master includes a brand new automatic Threat Alert Level, it's an easy and interactive way for you to know if your website is being targeted by spammers and the level of intensity or danger of this targeting
* Spam Master includes Spam Activity Probability, in conjunction with the Alert Level, Spam Master advanced detection heuristic analytics will provide you with an approximated percentage of all activity in your website
* Spam Master includes a bunch of useful widgets and safe website seal for commerce and sales
* Spam Master includes several optional email reports and warnings to keep you informed
* Spam Master is PHP 7 ready
* Spam Master is IPv6 ready

**ONLINE DEMO**

* [Demo Link](https://www.spammaster.org/)
* [Search Threat DB](https://www.spammaster.org/search-threat/)
* [New Threats](https://www.spammaster.org/new-threats/)
* [Top Threats](https://www.spammaster.org/top-10-threats/)
* [RBL Cluster Status](https://www.spammaster.org/rbl-servers-status/)

**ONLINE TOOLS**

* [Manage your Stats Online](https://www.spammaster.org/websites-stats/)
* [Manage your Licenses Online](https://www.spammaster.org/licenses-stats/)

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== Installation ==

1. Use the Wordpress Installer, Updater.
2. Activate in the "Plugins" admin panel.
3. Visit the "Plugin Page Menu | Spam Master" to configure settings.
4. [Spam Master Documentation](https://www.spammaster.org/documentation/)


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Issues RBL License =
* Please update to latest version of Spam Master
* Patiently wait for your license to be activate and replicated by RBL Servers

= I DON'T HAVE A LICENSE =
* Get a license here for peanuts, $8 year [License](https://www.techgasp.com/downloads/spam-master-license/)
* or
* take a free tour [Trial License](https://www.spammaster.org)

= Need More Help =
* [Spam Master Documentation](https://www.spammaster.org/documentation/)
* [Support](https://www.techgasp.com/support/)


== Screenshots ==

1. Main Plugin Menu
2. Top Spam Countries - Statistics
3. Settings Page
4. Statistics Page
5. Firewall Statistics
6. Firewall Block Page
7. Wordpress Registration. Spam Master with re-CAPTCHA plus Honeypot traps
8. Spam Master Marking Comment as SPAM from Registered User, Spam Master marking Comment as SPAM after akismet cleared it
9. Top 10 Threats - Statistics


== Changelog ==

= 6.2.2 =
* New images and logos from www.spammaster.org
* Preparing High Availability Firewall & Extended Admin Pages Protection in upcoming 6.3 version
* New uninstall options
* Adding expiring dates
* Fixing old address link
* Shortening Settings page and adding date field
* Changing first installs free licenses
* Replacing probability false positives from date into random number
* Reducing & speed up of spam characters functions in comments and contact forms
* Combining About page with Settings page
* New admin footer links, fixing courtesy links and internal admin links
* Improved whitelist and administrator checks in contact forms
* Adding New Widgets for Administrators, Top Bar Firewall Hits and link to plugin that can be turned off in Protection Tools, Integration API
* Adding connections to new learning receivers
* Changing default stats reporting status
* Adding plugin automatic updates that can be turned off in Protection Tools, Integration API
* Adding Referrer and Destination to rbl learning report
* Moving most of the functions to classes
* Adding substrings to all posts
* Adding first time installs test data
* Changing default logs clean-up time to 3 months. Statistics and value counts always relate to this retention time. Please visit the Protections Tools page if you want to change this value. 
* Truncating old logs table and replacing with new table. If you want to keep your old logs please export the table before upgrading.
* If you encounter any issues please get in touch with us. Thank you.

= 6.2.1 =
* New internal connections and links to www.spammaster.org domain home of Spam Master
* Preparing High Availability Firewall & Extended Admin Pages Protection in upcoming 6.3 version
* Implementation of TechGasp developed technology Honeypot Version 2 along side with traditional honeypot, check our website for more information about Honeypot V2
* Improved protection against bots and headless browsers with new Honeypot sessions, cookies and javascript functions
* Honeypot inputs sizes, input classes and text types
* Fixing Honeypot double global
* Moving Protection Tools page Cache Control options to Integration API
* Adding spam-master-middle-80 to css

= 6.2.0 =
* Upgrade to this version is highly advisable
* Better implementation of nasty bots detection that consume a lot of server resources
* Fixing honeypot contact form function name and true typo
* Moving Proxies and firewall function to separate page
* Adding Honeypot, reCaptcha to logs clean-up schedules
* Removing excessive logging
* Adding new uninstall options

= 6.1.0 =
* Fixing Contact Form 7 characters exclusion
* Fixing days count to properly display 15 days
* Modifying analytics 15 days graph limits
* Modifying russian to cyrillic text labels
* Version 6.1.0 contained 9 releases (6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5, 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.1.9).

= 6.0.0 =
* Implementing new database structure
* Adding new spam buffer / threats database
* Adding new plugin page to manage spam buffer / threats
* Adding new transients database
* Adding new plugin page to manage transients
* Adding new whitelist exemption database
* Adding new plugin page to manage whitelist exemption
* Adding new plugin analytics page to manage Statistics, Firewall, Registrations, Comments and Logs
* Database calls restructure
* New install / uninstall options
* Combining and reducing crons
* Fixing spam_master_cache_proxie warning
* Adding Spam Buffer check to Contact Form 7
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Registrations Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Comments Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Contact-Form 7 Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Woocomerce Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to System Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* API improvements
* PHP 7.3 Ready!
* New plugin paths
* New protection Lists
* Extra Protection Tools
* Adding daily automatic clean-up
* Version 6.0.0 contained 9 releases (6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 6.0.9).
* For more info please check the change log online.

= 5.6.0 =
* Version 5.6 contained 10 releases (5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.5 =
* Version 5.5 contained 10 releases (5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 5.5.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.4 =
* Version 5.4 contained 10 releases (5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.4.6, 5.4.7, 5.4.8, 5.4.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.3 =
* Version 5.3 contained 9 releases (5.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.5, 5.3.6, 5.3.7, 5.3.8, 5.3.9, 5.3.10).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.2 =
* Version 5.2 contained 10 releases (5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.2.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.1 =
* Version 5.1 contained 11 releases (5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.1.7, 5.1.8, 5.1.9, 5.1.10, 5.1.11).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.0 =
* Version 5.0 contained 4 releases (5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 4.0 =
* Version 4 contained 27 releases (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.3.6.1, 4.3.6.2, 4.3.6.3, 4.3.6.4, 4.3.6.5, 4.4.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.1.2, 4.4.1.3, 4.4.1.4, 4.4.1.5, 4.4.1.6, 4.4.1.7, 4.4.4, 4.4.5).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 3.0 =
* Version 3 contained 1 releases (3.0). For more info please check the changelog online.
* TechGasp Framework V2 Implementation

= 2.0 =
* Version 2 contained 5 releases (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.5).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 1.0 =
* Alpha release
* Adding Buttons
* Start coding


== Upgrade Notice ==

= 6.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 6 is currently being developed, please check logs here.

= 5.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 5 is currently being developed, please check logs here.

= 4.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 4 contained 27 releases (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.3.6.1, 4.3.6.2, 4.3.6.3, 4.3.6.4, 4.3.6.5, 4.4.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.1.2, 4.4.1.3, 4.4.1.4, 4.4.1.5, 4.4.1.6, 4.4.1.7, 4.4.4, 4.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.

= 3.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 3 contained 1 releases (3.0). For more info please check the changelog online

= 2.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 2 contained 5 releases (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.

= 1.0 =
* IMPORTANT Alpha Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Beta