Bumping for those that like me didn't know this and had to search through the thread.

Worked a treat, thanks mate!

database must be down. Users are receiving messages saying "Registration denied. We check new registrations against a database of known forum spammers. At this time, we are unable to contact this database to verify your registration. We are sorry for the inconvenience but please do try again later.""

anybody getting the same problem?

Down for me too, I have a thread to let visitors know they need to request manual registration while the site is down, I also have added a notification to the registration page....better that than a hundred spam registrations to delete lol

Its working for me...

SFS seems to be letting some blacklisted IP registrations through. The log shows:

120.63.160.222 Allowed registration

But this IP is blacklisted: http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/120.63.160.222

What does this mean? Was SFS server offline and did it let the registration through? Or is there another factor at play?

This seems to happen frequently lately.

If this is a case of SFS server being offline, then please consider to add a 'automatically check in SFS database later' function.

It could be that your setting for 'Remote Expiry' is too low. If you set, say, 10 days any entries listed on the SFS database older than that will still be let through. Some suggest six months as IP addresses can be reallocated.

Installed this. Thank you!

Thanks for this, seems to be working well on 3.8.5!

Thanks you for the plug-in ;)

Awesome!

Flooded with spam registrations lately so I just installed this 4 minutes ago and went to the Admincp > statistics & logs > vbstopforumspam logs, and just saw that it immediately stoped 10 spam registrations (and counting by the SECOND...)! All within 4 minutes of installing this!

Sooooo happy! Thank you!!!!

vbulletin. 3.8.7