Title: SpamFireWall issues Last modified: April 18, 2024 --- # SpamFireWall issues * Resolved [savingyourtail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savingyourtail/) * (@savingyourtail) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/) * I’ve been running cleantalk’s spamfirewall for a while, and it does seem to block the spam I was getting before. Recently though, it seems to be flagging legitimate users (me!) I’ve seen the spamfirewall screen “SpamFireWall is checking your browser and IP for spam bots” – please click the link below to pass the protection. I never used to get this before, but now I see it fairly regularly. This alone is a negative, the fact that I’m getting flagged as a potential bot, because I fear many legitimate users in the future will be getting it too. * But worse, I accessed my site with Amazon Fire’s Silk Browser, and SpamFireWall seems to be stuck in a do-loop of “Please click the line below to pass the protection” with 3 sec countdown. The countdown gets to 0 then simply restarts -with no link available to click and bypass-. Plus it’s listing an IP address that is not mine(?). At first I thought Silk browser may be using a proxy/vpn, but if I go to a “what’s my IP?” website, it shows my own IP, not what SpamFireWall is displaying! SpamFireWall is showing “checking IP 151.106.8.108” – that is a France IP (I live in the US). All I can guess is that it is somehow confusing my own session with that of a spam bot’s. Please help.. - This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by [savingyourtail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savingyourtail/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fspamfirewall-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Support [dimitrycleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitrycleantalk/) * (@dimitrycleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17698067) * Hello [@savingyourtail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savingyourtail/), * The “The countdown gets to 0 then simply restarts -with no link available to click and bypass-. Plus it’s listing an IP address that is not mine (?).” issue can be caused by your caching solution. Could you please try to purge all kinds of website cache and recheck this issue? * You can also try changing the “Set cookies” option in the Anti-Spam plugin settings: WordPress Admin Page —> Settings —> Anti-Spam by CleanTalk —> Advanced settings— > Set cookies option —> Set to “Store data in the website database (alternative mechanism)” —> Save Changes. * Did it help? * Thread Starter [savingyourtail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savingyourtail/) * (@savingyourtail) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17699657) * Thanks for the reply. The “loop” seems fixed now. Clearing all web caches may have fixed it. * Regarding regularly seeing the SpamFireWall pop-ups with the countdowns (not referring to the loop issue): Currently my “set cookies” is OFF. I see this is the recommended setting. Can you tell me what effects changingit to “Store data in web database” would have? Will this reduce the number of SpamFireWall pop- up screens users see? Does this have any effects on SpamFireWall’s effectiveness or on the database/site’s performance? * Plugin Support [dimitrycleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitrycleantalk/) * (@dimitrycleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17699786) 1. Alternative mechanism will store data in database and will not set cookies in browser, so the cache solutions will work just fine. 2. You can read more about how the SpamFireWall option works here: [https://cleantalk.org/help/spamfirewall](https://cleantalk.org/help/spamfirewall) 3. See point 1. * If clearing the cache helped, you can leave the cookie option to “Off”, but you will need to change your cache plugin settings so your website pages will be cached for 12 hours or less. * This means that your cache will be updated twice a day. * Thread Starter [savingyourtail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/savingyourtail/) * (@savingyourtail) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17700460) * If I don’t have an easy way to set the pages to cache for 12 hours or less, would you recommend I use the alternate mechanism to store data in the database instead of setting the cookie option to Off? Are there any disadvantages/downsides to using the alternate mechanism compared to the “Off” option? I assumed there are some, otherwise Off would not be the default setting? * Plugin Support [dimitrycleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitrycleantalk/) * (@dimitrycleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17700606) 1. Yes. 2. As I said, our data will be stored in a database. You can perceive it as a disadvantage or as a downside. 3. See point 2. * Plugin Support [dimitrycleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitrycleantalk/) * (@dimitrycleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17706953) * Hello. We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to mark this thread as “resolved”.If you have any further questions, you can start a new thread or contact us via our private Ticket System: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open). * [Jerome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeones/) * (@wildeones) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17720644) * Same problem here. We’ve used CleanTalk for several now for our e-commerce website and since last week all our customers are getting the “SpamFireWall is checking your browser and IP…” page. Waiting for the countdown doesn’t work. And clicking on the “link below” doesn’t work either. Is this due to a recent update? Which settings should we be tinkering with please? We are losing sales because of this. Thank you. * [Jerome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeones/) * (@wildeones) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17720647) * several years* * Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/) * (@eugenecleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17720771) * Hello [@wildeones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeones/). * For a quick fix, disable SpamFireWall and clear the site’s cache. WordPress Admin Page → Settings → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk → disable the “SpamFireWall” → Save Changes. It’s an additional feature, the main part of the anti-spam protection will still work. * To investigate, please contact us via our private Ticket System and add there a link to this topic: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open). * Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/) * (@eugenecleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17737357) * Hello. We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to mark this topic as “resolved”.If you have any further questions, you can start a new topic or contact us via our private Ticket System. * [Jerome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildeones/) * (@wildeones) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17738586) * Hi Eugene, thank you for the reply and sorry for the delay in mine. I have followed your instructions and disabled SpamFireWall and it seems to be fine now. * However we are getting an insane amount of spam messages through our contact form. I will start a new ticket for that shortly. * Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/) * (@eugenecleantalk) * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spamfirewall-issues/#post-17738649) * We look forward to hearing from you. * If you have a moment can you please leave us a review? We would greatly appreciate it. * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cleantalk-spam-protect/reviews/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/cleantalk-spam-protect/reviews/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘SpamFireWall issues’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/cleantalk-spam-protect/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3539767) * [Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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