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Effective Anti-Spam Solution for WordPress

Honeypot Anti-Spam is a WordPress plugin designed to protect comment forms using a honeypot technique. This method eliminates the need for intrusive captchas, as it operates invisibly for legitimate visitors. By embedding a hidden field in forms, it effectively detects and blocks spam bots that fill out the field, marking those submissions as spam without any user interaction required. The plugin is straightforward to use and requires no additional configuration after installation.

To get started with Honeypot Anti-Spam, simply install and activate the plugin from the WordPress dashboard. It integrates seamlessly into your site, ensuring no negative impact on performance. While it is highly effective against automated spam, it should be noted that it does not prevent manual spam submissions. However, given that 99.99% of spam comes from bots, it serves as an efficient solution for most users.

App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Version

    1.0.5

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    WordPress

  • OS

    5.8 or higher

  • Size

    10.52 KB

  • Developer

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In Softonic we scan all the files hosted on our platform to assess and avoid any potential harm for your device. Our team performs checks each time a new file is uploaded and periodically reviews files to confirm or update their status. This comprehensive process allows us to set a status for any downloadable file as follows:

Clean

It’s extremely likely that this software program is clean.

What does this mean?

We have scanned the file and URLs associated with this software program in more than 50 of the world's leading antivirus services; no possible threat has been detected.

Warning

This software program is potentially malicious or may contain unwanted bundled software.

Why is the software program still available?

Based on our scan system, we have determined that these flags are possibly false positives.

What is a false positive?

It means a benign program is wrongfully flagged as malicious due to an overly broad detection signature or algorithm used in an antivirus program.

We’d like to highlight that from time to time, we may miss a potentially malicious software program. To continue promising you a malware-free catalog of programs and apps, our team has integrated a Report Software feature in every catalog page that loops your feedback back to us.

Flag any particular issues you may encounter and Softonic will address those concerns as soon as possible.