Will do. Like magic it went away shortly after posting here yesterday..

Then it almost certainly was due to the sfs mysql server running slow working with php/curl and mysql/vbulletin timeouts.

I'll leave the setting as is right now and if the problem comes back adjust the timeout to see what effect it has.

Hey pedigree,

When is this mod going to get to be the Mod of the month?

Lol, I have to admit it's one of the best spam fighters in this foum-bar none.

Btw, thanks a lot for that explaination you gave to Skipper for furture up grade. That helped me figure a couple of other things out.

mmurtha, agreed.. I've tried to campaign for motm a couple of times..

Love to see you take the rally for April!

It would be nice to see a motm against the mod :) But as the rules state, Im not allowed to nominate it myself or /poke people into nominating or voting for it.

Just that people think its good enough for motm is a great pat on the back.

I am working on 0.7 (to be v1.0) but Im so very busy at work, have a young son and, shamefully, starting playing Evercrack 2 again.

*Installed and voted*

Thank you so much and to wired1 for the plug in! By the time I installed and added the API key, I had one already in the log.

Are there any known issues with vbulletin ver 3.8.0?

Good work, thanks

Just got this error when trying to read the last 15 entries in the log? :erm:

What is it?

Never had a problem before, but more importantly, how to I clean it up and continue using this excellent mod? I'm unable to read past the 2nd item in the list.....

Thanks for any feedback... :)

Regards,
Badger

Its a plugin in your browser I guess. Its nothing to do with the mod in vbulletin.

Hey Skippy,

Consider it done then for April! I know I've been posting this Mod on other forums every chance I get. If a couple of us do that, people will install it and then see how good it really is. ;)


Hey Pedigree,

Yeah, I understand that you aren't allowed to rally people to vote, but this Mod is well worth it and then some to us who use it. I have thousands of spammers now in my logs and I've only been using this mod for a couple of months. It seems to me that the people who install it and use it could ralley for you. ;)

Btw, I knew you mentioned you were working on another update, and that's great! You'll get to it when you get to it, and I think most people know how valuable your times is too, so don't fret. It'll come. ;)

I wanted to ask you something to - Would you mind if I posted a link to your mod on my forum? I'm thinking of creating a mod section in one of the moduels in the left column. I'd love to post this one as the leading mod.


Mary

thank you. works great with 3.8.1

mmurtha, you post away :)

nice then I will install it

Has anyone else begun experiencing an inordinate amount of legitimate AOL members attempting to register on their sites, but the mod "bags" them as spammers?

Almost every one from AOL seems to get stopped because their IP address is in the database.

Is there a reason for this I'm missing?

Sure creates some unhappy campers and a lot of manual work adding them later after they complain and you find out they're legit.

Do the spammers have access to blocks of IP addresses that AOL uses and that's why we're seeing this?

Thanks for any feedback.... great mod btw ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

I do not see this in my environment, but each of our niches draws different users. If this creates a impact for you, you can set StopForumSpam from blocking on IP and still catch a number of spammers (31% of all blocked spammers on my site are from username (21%) and email (10%)

I think I'll try that and see what happens ... :)

Thanks for the advice....

Regards,
Badger

AOL forces most of its users out via proxy servers. As AOL do practically nothing to curtail spammers, innocents users are being caught up in that mess. If youre an AOL user, I think youll have to come to expect trouble in the future, not just for the sfs database but from projecthoneypot, spamhaus etc etc etc.

Any reason this wont work on 3.6.0? I tried installing it on a test board and it seemed to work fine.

I used the current version of this plugin (.61) on 3.6.0 for a while with no issues..

A lot of registrations are blocked because they seem to be using the name 'unregistered'. But it seems to be 1 in every 10 registrations. Something seems wrong. Do you have any idea what could be the problem?

I've not had this on the forum I admin. :confused:

Maybe its a conflict between this and vMail ?

I got this SQL error today.

Is there a possible SQL injection vulneralbility with this mod or an error with the code?

We've seen that error in the past:

As the API is becoming very popular, more and more people are writing interfaces to it and some are very very bad. As some of the implementation do no caching, the API is getting hammered by some forums.

Because of this, we have had to add rate limiting (currently 1000 per day but thats not set in stone). This hasnt gone live yet but I will be checking how the mod will handle this.

Read more here http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/t573-Rate-Limiting

I tried to update from 0.60 to 0.61 by uploading the product. This is the error that I got:

You need to uninstall and reinstall the mod. Prior to 0.61, there is no upgrade path without a reinstall Im afraid.

You could edit the XML file and remove the line of code that does the sql query directly under that if you wish to maintain you logs. You dont need to upgrade from 0.60 to 0.61 unless you manually editted your templates to include the faulty vB conditions.

Installed this as 0.61 but it only shows up as 0.6.
It doesn't seem to work with 3.8.1. Log is empty and today the first mail adress mentioned in the blacklist came through.

Any hints would be nice. Thanks.

peterle1, I have it working on 3.8.1 on one of my sites with no issue.

I have 3.8.1 seems to work fine for me. Thx great mod. :)

Anyone having any problems on 3.8.2 on this?

Not at all... working fine on 3.8.2

As others have mentioned, this is an AWESOME mod. In fact, it is probably the most useful mod I have installed, hence nominating it for MOTM.

I read elsewhere in this topic that there has been some recent issues with server response and I have been getting the "[REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy" timeout on a number of registrations.
I do not have admin access to the server configuration with my host (shared server) so I am wondering if there is something I can do to reduce these errors from the client side?
I have access to MySQL and ftp access to the server (obviously) so if there is anything I can do with either editing any of the php files in this mod or something I can change in the database via MySQL, that would be very much appreciated.

Regardless of this issue, I still rate this as an essential mod. :up:

This error presents itself when a couple of things happen.
1. Your forum cant contact the remote database in the allowed period of time
2. Our database is down (cough, it happens, I blame Russ :) )
3. Youve exceeded the (newly implemented) limit of 5,000 queries in a 24 hour period (which is unlikely).

Are you using cURL for doing the queries? Its one of the options in vbStopForumSpam configuration. With cURL, you can control the timeout time window a little more but thats often at the cost of risks a "mysql has disapeared" error.

Love this mod. This is has kept the hundreds of spammers out everyday.

Mod classification - MUST HAVE! Great Work! 10x!

Does this work on vb 3.8.2 does anyone know?

Works perfectly well on 3.8.2.