Spam Master is the professional solution to protect software and hardware from spam and online threats.

Spam Master is available for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other platforms via API. After installing Spam Master, just insert a connection, license key in your plugin, module or component Settings page and you are set to go.

All management is done via our website www.spammaster.org. If you haven’t created an account, please do so via top menu Login.

• Free Key: Check your plugin, module or component Settings page for the attached email. Create an account with that email.
• Pro Key: Create an account with the email used during purchase or checkout.

It’s important to create the account with your main email address to receive important notifications about your license, firewall, exploit attempts, etc.

If your main email address is different from the above free attached email or Pro purchase email, not to worry you will be able to transfer the licenses to your main email address. Same applies if you have several websites with several licenses with several emails, you will be able to manage all websites from one main email account. Refer below to Licenses section Transfer License.

Go ahead, create an account with your main email address and login.

• Profile: Allows you to manage your account settings like First Name, Last Name, Time Zone, etc.
• Licenses: Allows you to manage your licenses, add, transfer, configure license options, etc.
• Firewall: Allows you to view and manage your website(s) firewall with allowed, blocked, whitelisted accesses.
• Statistics: Allows you to view your website(s) data and important website(s) analytics via easy to comprehend charts and lists.
• Actions : Displays all end to end connections between our servers and your website(s).

Let’s take a closer look at each menu section and it’s options.

Manage your personal account data.

• First Name: Your first name.
• Last Name: Your last name.
• Website: Your main website.
• Time Zone: Your time zone. Usually date and time is displayed GMT 0 or UTC 0 which is London/Lisbon time zone. You can change the date and time to reflect your time zone. Use the drop-down menu to select your city, country (+ or -) time zone.

Licenses menu and sub menus.

In the example screenshot above we see that the top menu licenses contains a green round bubble displaying 0. That means that there aren’t any current issues with the used licenses. If the bubble is red, orange or yellow and displays a number other than 0 then you should address the issue(s) in the below licenses table.

Add Free License

Allows you to add 1 Free license to be used by a website with WordPress, Drupal or Joomla.

• Website: Insert the website URL the license is destined for, example: https://www.example.com.
• Your Role: Brief comment of your role in this website.

Get Pro Business Class License

Allows you to Buy a single Pro license or a pack of 5 or 10 Pro licenses to be used across your websites.

A license costs peanuts per year and hugely improves your website performance with end to end connections to our premium business servers. You can check the connection times here. Pro licenses also allow for the implementation of specific license options and real-time immediate connections with Actions.

What are you waiting for? Get Pro License.

Upgrade Pro License

If you have a Pro license you can easily upgrade to 5 or 10 licenses only paying the difference between prices. Upgrade.

Transfer License

Allows you to transfer license(s) to a single main email account.

You can transfer your Free attached email license or Pro purchase email license to your main email account.

If more than one license, you can transfer them all to your main email account to manage (licenses, options, firewall, statistics, etc.) from a single place.

• Email: Insert the license email, either Free attached email or Pro purchase email. Check Spam Master in your website to get the license email.
• License: Insert the license key. Check Spam Master in your website to get the license or connection key.

Once you press Transfer License, check the original licence key email inbox and click the Validation Link to allow the transfer to your main email account.

Licenses Table, List

Below the top Licenses menu and sub-menu there’s the Licenses Table with all your current manageable licenses.

License Key

Displays your License or connection keys. If you don’t have one yet, click the top menu Get Pro Business Class License or Add Free License.

Attach

Displays if license is attached to a website.

Correct Detach method: go to your website, Spam Master Settings page and remove or replace the license with another license, press Save. Afterwards press in this Table.

Correct Attach method: the license should display “Available” and not attached to any website (no red here), simply insert the license in your website inside Spam Master Settings page and press Save. Afterwards refresh this Table and the license will display the attached information.

Following the above process you can re-use or move the license to a different website. Remember 1 unique license key per website database spam-master table.

Website

Displays the website domain the license is attached to or in other words, the website using the key.

Platform

Display the website platform WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, API, etc. using the key.

Version

Displays the Spam Master version currently installed in the website / platform. Spam Master is all about security, it’s really important you keep Spam Master up-to-date with the latest release versions.

Your version is up-to-date.

Your version is not up-to-date. This warning can display if you updated Spam Master within 24H, max time it takes for your website to sync with our servers. If you want to speed up the Sync process go to your website Spam Master Settings page and press Re-Sync Key button. Also, if your Spam Master version is not up-to-date, it affects other advanced parts of license, firewall, etc. For instance, take a look at the above screenshot and you will see 2 licenses with , in this state the Tools can not be configured and will display a red Configure button .

Tools

Clicking green Configure button allows you to manage the behavior of Spam Master in your website. You may have several licenses for several websites and each Spam Master installation may behave differently according to the options you activate here. Example:

• in one installation you might want to scan the contacts or comments text with heuristics and in another installation you might not want to scan the text or might not even be using comments or contacts
• or, you might want to individually turn off Spam Master signatures text “Protected by Spam Master” on login, registration, comment forms or emails
• or, you might want to disable daily, weekly report emails
• etc… many other options

Just turn them ON or OFF as you please.

Alert Level

The Threat Alert Level automatically displays your website spam & threat alert levels. 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 our RBL servers sync. The alert levels range from 0 (low) to 3 (high) intensities. According to each level you may which to implement different strategies using the Tools Page. Below is explained each Alert Level and it’s meaning:

Type

The type of license key. Pro, Free, API, etc.

Renews

License renewal date, only applicable to Pro and API. Free licenses are always valid and do not renew.

Status

Display the license key status on your website. The normal status is VALID (green color). Below is a list of other license status that require your attention and correction.

Firewall menu and Whitelist sub-menu.

The Firewall displays and allows you to mange all your website(s) accesses for the last 7 days. This table is packed with concise information per IP and allows you to override the decision taken by the Firewall to allow or block that specific IP access. Let’s take a look at below example table.

Show 50 entries & Search Field

Show entries allows you to control de amount of entries per Firewall page.

Search Field allows you to quickly filter the table as you type. For instance an IP, an email, browser agent, etc.

Firewall

Displays the action taken by the Firewall. Can be overridden by you in Block? White?, read below.

the Firewall Approved / Allowed the access.

the Firewall Blocked / Denied the access.

Date

The Date and Time the access occurred. If you haven’t done so, remember to set your time zone in top menu Profile.

Country, User, Ip, Email, Agent, Content

Displays all information gathered from a specific access.

• type of scan performed by Spam Master. The Most common is HAF “High Availability Firewall”, but it can also be Registration, Login, Contact Form, Comment, etc. Accesses can be scanned several times example, HAF Comment Heuristics until they either get Allowed or Denied by Spam Master.
• the Ip.
• the email if applicable.
• the browser agent.
• the content if any. Example, if a user is browsing the website there is no content but on the other and if it’s a comment or a contact the content can be scanned and displayed here if these actions are enable in the License Tools Configure.

From

The referrer webpage, where the access comes from.

To

Your website destination page, where the access is trying to reach.

Block? White?

With these actions you can override the Firewall behaviour.

• if the Firewall approved the access you can:
  • Block future accesses from this specific IP.
  • Add this specific Ip to the Whitelist and exempt the Firewall from scanning the majority of accesses.
  • The specific Ip is in your Whitelist, removes it from your whitelist.
• if the Firewall blocked the access you can:
  • Allow future accesses from this specific IP.
  • No action can be taken with the whitelist since the Ip is blocked. To whitelist you first need to remove the Firewall Block.

Whitelist

Firewall sub-menu Whitelist allows you to view and manage your current whitelisted Ip’s and Emails.

Keep in mind that website administrators are whitelisted by default, hence are not required to be added to the whitelist.

Special notice regarding emails. By default it’s not a good idea to whitelist emails since many times spam bots gather emails from your website and other online sources and use them to spam.

Special notice regarding Ip’s. By default whitelist functions perfectly with static Ip’s. If you are trying to whitelist DHCP or dynamic ip’s these change overtime and renders them unuseful.

How to add ip’s or emails to your whitelist:

• Via the Firewall Table.
• Via the Whitelis sub-menu insertion box:
  • Insert your Ip or Email.
  • Select your website from the dropdown.
  • Click Add.

The Statistics menu gives important insights about your website(s) activity and is of the out-most importance for business analytics and management. We already have a huge array of charts, lists & reports and are constantly adding more. If you need a specific chart or list please get in touch with us.

Actions menu displays all end to end communications between our RBL servers and your website(s). All your actions across www.spammaster.org in Licenses Tools Configure, Firewall Allow or Deny, Whitelist Add or Remove, etc. allow you to control Spam Master behavior in your website(s) and get stored here for 7 days.

• Data Successfully Synchronized with your website. With a Pro Key synchronizations are done immediately or real-time.
• Data Synchronization is Pending. We will retry in 24H.
• Data Synchronization is failing. Our server will keep trying a Sync with your website for the next 24h.

The Website Type selector refers to Spam Master implementation type, Live Production website or Test Development website. You can find the drop-down selector in your website Spam Master Settings page.

• Live – Production: Active Spam Master Saas protection with real time scans via the usage of 1 unique license key.
• Test – Development: No protection is done. It’s assumed this is a dev, local, stage machine running locally or on the internet protected behind .htpasswd. If you require a full blown Spam Master Saas protection for your development, stage, test machines you may select Live – Production but keeping in mind it needs 1 unique license (different from any other production license key) to be protected by our service.