What modules are people using to prevent contact us page spam?
I noticed there are NO modules up-to-date aka 1.5.3 for captcha or recaptcha.

Our site went live yesterday and already receiving spam!

Thank you for your time,
Robert

I have used the reCaptcha, Numinix's Match Captcha.

However the most successful one I have used, that users seem to not mind is:

1.) Creating an additional field in contact us form. Call it something obvious like email_address (email is used in the form).
2.) Hide the field using CSS (most bots don't use CSS)
3.) Change the form to not email, when the field has anything present, it skips the zen_mail function, there for not flagging spam that there was an error.

So are you saying that you used a module that says it is only compliant up to version 1.5.1 for version 1.5.3?

It could be template related. Some implementations of the contact us in the megamenu are not identical to the built-in contact us functionality and are susceptible to spam.

Depending upon your template choice, if applicable, try disabling the contact form used in the megamenu and leave the default contact form and see if that helps. I think v1.5.3 has the hidden field built into the form.

You could also try using something like ZBblock (spambotsecurity dot com) to stop them getting to your contact page

I've been using it for a couple of months and it's working great.

Just responded to a similar post: http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?215280-Spam-Attack

I would have to agree about 80% of the spam I was seeing was coming from the mega menu.

RAD1964:

What modules are people using to prevent contact us page spam?
I noticed there are NO modules up-to-date aka 1.5.3 for captcha or recaptcha.

Our site went live yesterday and already receiving spam!

Thank you for your time,
Robert

Btw, the lack of indication of upwards compatibility does not necessarily mean that the plugin is not compatible. The implementation in a newer version may be slightly different (different line number if provided), but the lack of indication primarily indicates that effort hasn't been taken to notify the site administrators of the applicability/ability.

I thought google recaptcha was compatible with 1.5.3, but implementation on the megamenu is less than optimal (reduced size makes an already difficult to read option only more difficult.)

Well I had already removed the Mega Menu from the top and the only link is in my footer which goes to the main form. I just visited the ZB Block site and downloaded their package. Depending on the complexity of installing, I might also try a non updated recaptcha. Nobody likes clients whining about spam :D

templates/template_default/templates/tpl_contact_us_default.php
I believe this is the proper 'regular' contact us form. Just wanted to confirm. I couldn't find any contact us under the sheffield folder.

RAD1964:

Well I had already removed the Mega Menu from the top and the only link is in my footer which goes to the main form.

Double check your source code of when the page is presented to the browser. As mentioned in the linked thread above, do not use css to hide the contact us form of the mega menu. The code is still present and can be acted upon by those that are out to send spam. The code must be modified to handle the situation.

See, CSS (Cascade Style Sheets) apply formatting to the page, they do not modify the content of the original page. Therefore in a low-tech situation, the css can be ignored with the background page content "used"/shown. So even in the case of a link that is hidden by css, the link is still served. Now consider search engines, they have gone to "respecting" the css and ignoring the hidden content, though I could be wrong about the ignore part as they may also count that content against the site/page as it may be seen as stuffing the page with information...

So like said, don't use css to "hide" the megamenu contact us form as it is still on the served page and possible to abuse when provided as is.

bislewl:

the most successful one I have used, that users seem to not mind is:

1.) Creating an additional field in contact us form. Call it something obvious like email_address (email is used in the form).
2.) Hide the field using CSS (most bots don't use CSS)
3.) Change the form to not email, when the field has anything present, it skips the zen_mail function, there for not flagging spam that there was an error.Just to be clear, that's built in to Zen Cart by default. But it only works correctly if one uses the built-in template files. Adding another template that's not containing that feature defeats its protections.

DrByte:

Just to be clear, that's built in to Zen Cart by default. But it only works correctly if one uses the built-in template files. Adding another template that's not containing that feature defeats its protections.

In this case, there is code in the default template files that can be included/incorporated into the megamenu. Although, even with that some spammers have figured out a way to bypass it as well. But at a less frequent basis than not using the added code.