Moovur

Let's talk about my latest favorite Joomla extension Moovur. Moovur is an extension that applies Captcha (you know...the little code you have to enter to submit a form).  What is great about Moovur is the settings and it's ability to be fluid.  I'm not the most technical person out there to give the deets on Moovur so I will simply tell you how it had enhanced my site.

I recently decided to advertise my prices on my website.  I'm still not certain this is the best way to sell  my services, but I thought I would test the waters.  To have the ability to sell my services via a shopping cart I must have a login form.  You can see how important it is to collect a customers information in this example.  I had never had a login form before because all of my information is free. When I launched the latest and greatest version of this site I began to get a lot of registrations.  The odd thing was that they were obviously bogus.  Random names, gobbledygook, plain old garbage. I received about 30 of these bogus registrations in the last 2 weeks. This was a bit annoying.  

I logged into my Moovur stats today and found that they'd captured almost 3000 spam attempts to register on my site.  All of the sudden the 30 that got through didn't seem so bad.

My site notifies me of every registration. You can see that deleting 3000 bogus registrations would be seriously irritating.  I've got to give it to the Moovur guys for developing this great extension.  It equals real time to me.  Time I could be spending working on a clients website.  Thanks Moovur!

Update:  In the last 24 hours there have been an additional 3500 spam attempts and Moovur got all but one.