It can happen if the time is set too high. I've found the 15 second limit works flawlessly. 30 seconds, too long. There are some humans who can actually legitimately fill out the fields that fast. If there is one who can do it in under 15, better check to see if he wears a Superman costume under his clothes.

It was set at 15 when he got the error message. ;)

Thanks for the info Max Taxable.

I have done that intentionally pasting info in, not legitimate info, just junk. Nobody can type that fast.

Did you reduce the time?

Nope, the time was set as 15 seconds. The reason I knew he got it was because he knew the exact message and I had never shared that with anyone before. But, knowing what I know about him explained a lot of it. He is the ONLY human who has ever gotten the message as far as I know, anyway.

Must be one helluva fast typist!

Most people registering have to read the stuff on the page to know what to do, take time to think of a nick, all that.

Oh shoot you misunderstood - I was asking if you reduced the time after that human got bot checked?

No, I left is at 15 seconds as no one had ever gotten through it before him and no one has ever gotten through it since. But he did have to try it a few times to actually beat it, so I know he had to put some extra effort into it. I diod modify the mod a bit, though. It now does the register template edit automatically as well as has a few extra info bits added to it.

Chuck Norris will complete it in a blink of an eye :D

That one doesn't seems to work for me. I have not recieved any mail since i change.
Any other way to change e-mail?

Why not just do this and avoid all the hassle if you don't want to receive emails?

I want the mail, but not to the webmaster address since there is 6 other guys using it.

Goto the plugin manager find the hook on "register_addmember_process" by "Is bot" and change webmasteremail to the preferred email you want the messages to be delivered to.

Find:

Replace with:

With "you@yourmail.com" being your preferred email address.

The reason it didn't work before? You used " instead of just ' when you changed it, looks like.

Go get 'em, Max! ;)

I dont want to jump to conclusions but it's not working still. Not a single mail within 4 hours

Give it a little more time. Also, make sure the webmaster email setting in the vb options is correct.

Did you do the file edit of the register template this installation requires:

In the vB register template find:

And afterwards add the following:

Good catch, max. I forgot about that.

Ok, now I feel really dumb because I gave you incorrect information originally.

Find:

Replace with THIS, instead of my earlier advice:

This does work, I spent time testing it myself. Can't leave the hook, $vbulletin->options in there if you're changing the email to something other than the admin email for the board.

Thanks. I'll give it a try :)

EDIT: It's seems to be something wrong with my webmail account. If i use that address no mail is recieved, but if i change to my hotmail it works like a charm :)

can anyone tell me if this works with vb 3.8? If not can you recommend a hack here that does? I have gotten over 5000 bot/spam registrations since Xmas. My other vb site doesn't have that issue for some reason. What is the point of them anyway? What do they gain by registering?

Working good for me in 3.8, 60-80 legit regs a day with maybe 2-4 spammers getting through that I manually ban before they even post by watching registration emails as they come in.
Add a few extra questions to the registration and the bots stick out like a sore thumb...

This mod is helpful, but will not catch all spam bots. You need multiple layers of defense.
Look into stopforumspam, bad behavior, projecthoneypot and spam-o-matic.

Yes it works on my 3.8 and has stopped thousands upon thousands of bots and not interfered with even one human.

I haven't had this miss a bot yet. Not even one, out of many thousands of registration attempts. I got rid of most all other anti-spam measures.

HUMAN spammers.... Those are going to get through almost no matter what you do anyway but those are a extremely small percentage of the overall spam problem.

This Mod makes all the others superfluous. This one among them all should be part of native vBulletin.

Installed this today and it blocked two using the same email, the third one got through though.

thanks. not even launched yet and have dozens of these spam registrations. appreciate this mod.

is this working for vb 4?

In this thread there are instructions on making this Mod compatible with vB4.

There are instructions to make it work on VB4 a few pages back.

Spam increase lately =/

I'm sure this lightweight will help in some way, thanks

All it will do is end all of the autospam pretty much.

I had that in my vB 3.0.xx forums site, so I just installed it in the new 4.2.

May I humbly suggest that the author updates the instructions, in the first post, for 4.2? Not quite productive to go through 27 pages, before finding the required changes for the latest version.

Thanks to Calorie for this!

Anyone knows how to add the IP address from where the bot is coming in the email sent? Better yet, can someone derive the code for adding that IP address to the banned IP addresses list?

Just installed, thanks.

This hack is doing a great work at stopping spammers. I just wish it would allow us to add the banned IP addresses to the banned IP addresses list.

This bot is doing a great job, is there a way to stop the emails from bot alerts coming to my email address? I am getting on avg 20-30 new bots being blocked a day, so its cluttering up my emails, lol.

That's easy, just go in the plug-in and find this line

Add a "#" in front of that line so it looks like this:

and that should stop the emails coming to your inbox.

Got this installed. Tested it myself and got the "Administrator has disabled registrations" error. However, I didn't receive an email for my attempt even though I properly edited my email into register_addmember_process.

Is this typical, or have I done something wrong?

Not sure why, it should gather the info for your email within the vb panel, make sure thats the one your using...

Where is the 'vb register template' we're supposed to ammend? The code to add to isn't in 'register.php' if that's what you have to do...