Installed, nice and easy, great options - thank you!

OK, this works very well but... what I discovered is that when a spammer can't add links to a post, they add them to their signature instead!

Could this be added as an option? Users less than X posts cannot have links in their posts AND cannot have links in their signatures. Then it really would be bomb-proof.

is do'able :)
because I orginally wrote this for my forum (and don't allow newbies signatures via usergroup promotions) that was never a problem. Leave it with me and I'll see what I can do.

Should be as simple as just finding the right hook.

Actually, now that you mention it, the usergroup promotions method seems a better way forward. Thanks for the tip.

One improvement you could still make is to add a link back to this thread on the product title in the list of installed products from the control panel. I like to use that fot checking for updates.

Good idea. I have some more ideas for the mod so will add that on the next update. For the time being if you want to do it manually:-

Goto 'Plugins & Products' > 'Manage Products'
Select 'Edit', next to Check4SPAM - SPAM detector
and paste: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1470652 into 'Product URL' and save.

It says it currently doesn't stop spammers from posting images... can't you just add img to the SPAM Keywords list or does it not read BBCode like that?

That's an advantage (not all webmasters want to block images) if you want to stop all newbies form posting pictures then you can just add '[img|' to the beginning of URL identifiers or '[url]' (without ' ') to the SPAM keywords (if you just want moderate them). For instances on my forum I allow images (and will do until unless spammers start targetting with images).

BTW I've made a little change to the URL identifiers (because someone managed to sneak one through lastnight by putting domain {.} com)

Excellent mod, thankyou very much.

Is there a way to alter what the post looks like when it tells you what the post in question is? Like take the bold off the [URL Attempt] User received an error - No action required! message, add in the user name of the poster etc? I tried to find it under templates but couldn't see anything for the mod...

The only reason why it has the [URL Attempt] in red is because it's actually a link to where they tried to post the link. As for the posters name; the actual post is in the posters name.

I'll see if I can add some extra options in the new version.

by the way I've noticed 2 tiny little bugs in this version (that are easily fixable before I release the new version).

• I had someone type "Awwwwwwwww." on my forum the other day and it got flagged (because off the 'www. ' identifier).
• I also had some type (.)(.) which is the forum slang for boobs (which flagged the '(.)' identifier).

To get around these update your URL identifiers to: