Originally Posted by Webnauts

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I have tried Pligg some months ago and I had problems too. But it was still Beta. This time I must admit that they have done a lot of good work since then. I am sure you will like it now.

The most important thing is what another member mentioned above, to disallow browsing directories which are not for users/visitors and bots.

You can add an .htaccess file in each directory which doesn't have one, and then add in all of them the following rule:

Thats it. If you need some help to defend yourself from spammers, we got some stuff done already. If you need help there, I guess we are already experts. Or, let say I hope.