Title: Update Fail
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Update Fail

 *  [lydiasnider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lydiasnider/)
 * (@lydiasnider)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/)
 * I used to really like this plugin & recommend it to others. This morning moments
   after updating the plugin my website got bombarded with spam comments. It’s almost
   as if it turned my site into a beacon for spammers.

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 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744572)
 * Errr … Not normal
    Did you test posting a comment by yourself when disconnected
   and with a wrong captcha
 * I never say no to help
 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744580)
 * Could you contact me to test a beta plugin to test ?
 *  Thread Starter [lydiasnider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lydiasnider/)
 * (@lydiasnider)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744581)
 * I’m around today for a beta test.
    I just tried testing comments both with doing
   captcha & without, my comments came through, though not sure how much that says
   since I have admin access.
 * I’m up to 141 spam comments. I don’t get it every other update of this plugin
   has worked just fine.
 * I just tried “reset to default values” let’s see if that works, though I didn’t
   change any of the settings when I updated it. I left them at the settings that
   had worked with the previous version of the plugin.
 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744582)
 * I may have introduced a little ‘breach’ in the previous release.
    Do you want
   a beta plugin ? If you are interested please download [http://dev.sedlex.fr/wp-content/plugins/spam-captcha.zip](http://dev.sedlex.fr/wp-content/plugins/spam-captcha.zip)
 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744587)
 * Did you try ?
 * For your information, I just add in the beta plugin a feature to distord images
   and then increase the difficulty for the spammer to recognize the letters
 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744589)
 * [@lydiasnider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lydiasnider/) I release a 
   new version on wordpress.org. You should be able to install it in minutes
 * Could you try ?
 *  [Sed Lex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedlex/)
 * (@sedlex)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744591)
 * [@lydiasnider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lydiasnider/) have you tried?
 *  Thread Starter [lydiasnider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lydiasnider/)
 * (@lydiasnider)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744592)
 * I did try. We seem to have two threads of conversations open in two different
   locations. I answered on the other a few days ago. I did the update & still had
   spam coming through. So I completely uninstalled & reinstalled. Still didn’t 
   work. I went with another solution. I really appreciate your responding and efforts
   to solve it.
 * Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-fail-2/#post-7744592)