Ahh, I understand what you are saying now. Well, what happens when you try to post now that you have a link in your sig?

The error says you forgot to upload functions_ghsom.php so make sure you have uploaded all the files to the correct location per the instructions.

Yep, sorry for wasting your time, I re-uploaded and it's all fine. Not sure what I did wrong :confused:

Best mod ever! :D

Thanks!

Seems to be a great Mod. Before installing I have a question, in the description you say that there might be problems if the admincp directory is renamed. This is the case in my forum. I wonder how I can prevent any problems arising from this?

Also, has this been verified to work with 4.1.0 PL2?

Is there an option to delete all spam users that existed before the mod installed?

like an Automated sql query.

thanks.

That sounds awesome if it were possible as I been getting wacked like crazy lately on my forums!

They are now posting anything but the amount of spammer emails is growing every day on my website and I just installed this mod!

Tagged,

is this one also compatible with vb4.1 pl2?

Exactly what I was looking for. Works beautifully. Thanks!

I'm using it just fine on 4.1 PL2

I'll try this.

No it does not. This has been asked many times before in this thread. Feel free to read through it for the reasons as to why it is not a feature, and why it won't ever be.

Pretty sure this has been fixed. Only way to be sure is to install the mod and find out. There not much point of renaming the admin dirs from the default IMHO. Security by obscurity is not really security.

Yes, this mod works perfectly in 4.1 PL2

Could you please verify the file?

If I click on the link for the version 1.2.8 I download the version 1.2.7

Thanks in advance.

Dario

As previously posted, the 1.2.8 says it is 1.2.7 you can ignore the version number reported in the product manager.

the version number presented for download here is correct.

You can compare the filesize between the 2 downloads 1.2.7 and 1.2.8 yourself and see there is a difference, which would allude to the file versions being different, yes?

I re-downloaded and re-installed the 1.2.8 version but I am having problems with custom modcp directory.

When I try to ban a user from the admin panel, the url of the new page is http://xxx.xxx.it/modcp/banning.php?do=banuser&u=yyyyy

Is there any option to set the custom modcp URL? I searched in this thread but with no results.

I am running vBulletin 3.8.6 Patch Level 1.

Thanks in advance.

Dario

The admin panel tool is deprecated in later versions and has been replaced by an option in the moderation tools menu on the postbit.

You can try to ban them from "Delete Posts As Spam" and it should handle the reporting for you. Or of course you can move the mod directory to where it goes by default. Moving the mod directory isn't great security anyways.

I love this plug-in, but one thing doesn't appear to be working for me - it's probably just me overlooking something.

When I go to ban a user that's slipped through, I check the "Remove user," "Remove All Posts," and "Submit to StopForumSpam.com" - and it does remove the user and submit it, but it's not removing the posts - it's just setting them to guest posts, which is obviously not great if they're spam.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Or is it a bug?

Edit - ooops, just seen the last post - I'll try the mod tools directly on the thread instead in future

Installed this on 3.8.6 and 4.01 and works perfectly on both. Thanks!

I'm having a similar issue when those hooks are called outside of the /forums directory with the file uploaded (and functioning correctly everywhere else). You may want to add something to the effect of "../forums/" in your includes statements to prevent this issue.

For example, I've got something in public_html/directory calling the includes statement for the functions_ghsom.php file, problem is, it's looking in /public_html/directory/includes instead of /public_html/forums/includes where it should be.

Not real sure I am following you. Do you mean you are trying to call functions of SOM from outside of your forum install? For example trying to prevent registrations on other parts of your site outside of the forum, such as an order form for example?

Not exactly.

What had happened is I have a script located in a different directory that uses the datamanager to create forum posts. When this happens, the hook user_presave is called, and your plugin executes, which leads to it trying to require the plugin file in another directory.

I see. Well, this mod wasn't really written with anything outside of vB.

It was written to work with a stock version of vBulletin. I can't really try to support code for the way everyone might have their individual sites set up, especially for things running outside of vBulletin. You should be able to modify the source code on your own to get it to work with whatever you have setup outside of vB. I suppose if this becomes a big issue for other people I can consider trying to support setups as yours, but that wont be until version 2 is released.

It looks like there are some leftover phrases for settings that are no longer used. Also, I don't see anything under Users -> Search for users in the admincp like the pic shows. Has that been removed?

Seems lately the auto submit is not working anymore for my site. I end up having to submit spammer manually. Anyone else having this issue?

Curious issue.... it seems that all my of RSS Feed Manager new posts are getting created but as being moderated. Thoughts before I start digging through it?

Thanks for this mod.
Today my forum had many spammer registrations. As soon as I installed this mod I got immediate positive results.

Installed under vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2

Hi
Just like to say a huge thanks and to reccomend to anyone who reads. This plugin so far has stopped spammers 100% and has made life with my forum so much easier - keep up the good work

Thanks

CudaFly (Steve):up:

thank you for this product, been getting killed that last 2 days, I see this putting an end to it.

I installed v1.2.8 but in cp it still shows as v1.2.7 I have even removed
the xml and imported again....

Yes, as its been mentioned several times before, the version number on the XML file was not edited when we made the last release.

You can edit the version number on your own in the XML file if it bothers you, or in the product manager but we didn't want to upload a new zip file because it would email notify everyone subscribed to this thread or who has marked it as installed that anew version was available, because the only thing different would be us writing 1.2.8 in the version information. Kind of a waste of everyone's time.

You can see there are filesize differences in the 1.2.7 zip and the 1.2.8 zip which is a clue that you are actually running a different version than 1.2.7

wow, I installed this just about 2 days ago and it's logged 324 entries so far. I had no clue that much crap was trying to log on to my site. That's over 150 a day, while my previous spam counter measures stopped all except about 10 a day, those 10 were really starting to cause issues. So again, thanks for this very cool mod.

But I do have 1 question, I haven't looked into it real hard yet but every since I installed this mod and one other spam mod that creates a question during registration. My own bot which posts a few GSS feeds to my site now needs to be moderated to be approved and it wasn't like that before. Again, I haven't looked into it real hard yet but if somebody has a simple answer, I would appreciate it.

WOW, in the last 4 minutes it blocked 8 Spammer Bots etc.... This thing works Magics!

hi,

I found a small innocent bug this code in /admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php

should be

$stylevar['right'] is deprecated in vb 4
great hack already stopped six spammers :up:

After about three hours I'm very pleased. Here's my first impressions:

1. I require user names; For me a lot of the robots don't submit one. If SOM knew this it would be less trips to SFS.
2. Log entries should use phases; In my case I'd be reducing the verbiage greatly (i.e. "No Username Submitted" would become "None" and "Spammer Found and rejected." would become "rejected")
3. I would love the option to have a logfile. That'd give the ability to use Fail2Ban to close the firewall to the robot for a time if they're persistent.

Thanks for the good work!

Thank you for this :)

I was going out of my mind continually banning IP's but this has quickly solved all my problems.

Thanks very much, working a treat so far, and since the re-captcha has been hacked i advise all board owners to install this mods.

Cheers for your efforts

I installed this hack a couple months ago... but never commented in this thread. This hack has all but removed ALL spam from my forum.. up until a day ago when recaptcha was broken. Since installing this.. until a day ago... I had 0 spam at all!!! THIS mod is HUGE for preventing spam! Now... with the addition to another recent mod for asking specific questions.. I don't expect to have much. THANK YOU!! 5 stars!

Hi just to let you know I have tested it on the beta 1 and I just get an error as below when a user logs out.
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Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 98

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 426

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/application/application.php on line 624

Can I suggest adding a 'report user' link to member profiles?

Can anyone confirm that the previous issues with forums that have modified MOD and AdminCP folder names is resolved ?