Actually we feel very angry UK Jimbo, no support, no improvements.
Uninstalling.

While it would be nice if UK Jimbo could post a reply to previous posts at some point, I have to ask how much you are paying UK Jimbo to provide the support and improvements that you're angry about not receiving, also how much did you pay UK Jimbo to use SpamBuster?

My point being, that SpamBuster is provided free of charge, no need to throw a hissy fit bcos UK Jimbo has other things on his mind ATM.

What does \b do? Did it solve some of your problems? I'm having problems with things like .no, .jp, etc where the user just forgot a space after saying .No way... And with jpegs.

-vissa

By the way, this is a a great mod!

Are there any directions as to the regular expressions we can use and what they do? I know standard regexp syntax but this one looks different -- what standard is it?

Being able to speficy a word boundary would be really nice (or at least spaces).

-vissa

I installed this (very easy) and within about 7 minutes it caught the first spammer - hid and moderator queued the thread, then added a message in my moderator forum about it. I love this product!

quoted for identical experience. Is this intended this way? The previous spambuster did not throw the error - about invalid thread.

Have other members who are running this tested this / getting this error?
I uninstalled the 3.5 one completely and tried a clean install - same.

thanks for any info from others

Hi guys - this has been sorted now in the latest release. It looks like some changes with the code and also some in the 3.6 codebase prevented this from working properly.


Bye :)

We allready fixed the redirecting bug for our forum 2 weeks ago ;)
thx for the update anyways, but i hope you will make it even better it is now.

regards

I can't help feeling that it's a bit of a shame you didn't share this with the other users of this modification.

Installed! Ill wait and see how good it works, I do indeed get spam at times on my board quite often so cant wait to see what this does :D.

thanks!

is it posible to add the mail function found here to this hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....2&postcount=10

I have set my "Alert forum" to send an email incase of a new thread or post but it is not working with "spam threads/posts alerts"

Thanks

Installed.... :up:

Tested and working great ... :)

Question: Why is it required to enter both a UserID and Username for that same ID in the AdminCP options for this mod? Is it just a check to make sure they match, or can a different Username be associated with the UserID one enters?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

I love it when a plan comes together :D

The way the data is stored in the database (and that you add a new thread/post to the system) both the id and name are stored (instead of looking it up from the user table).

I could add something to the code to derive the username so you'd only need to specify the user id but I was feeling lazy and figured it's not too much extra effort to specify it that once in the configuration settings :)

Understood... :)

Thanks.....

Another question: I set the post count to 3 since most spammers on our forums jump right in and make their first (and only) post a piece of spam. When your mod places the spam in moderation, does it count that as a post to the user record? I ask because I wonder if I could reduce the count to one (1) and therefore even if a spammer decided to bang out several quick spams in a row, he'd still be stuck at a valid post count of one (1) and therefore he'd never get out of moderation. Does that make sense?

Regards,
Badger

It does, just! :)

Only visible posts count towards the post count so the posts moderated by spambuster will not increase the spammers posts count.

Roger that .... :up:

Regards,
Badger

installed and was hoping i finally will get rid of lots of spammers. But no such luck for me. When i try to post a test spam post nothing happens. The post isn't hidden and its not posted in my moderator forum either.

trigger level. tested everything from 1 up to 10
post count. 5
enable post reporting. yes
correct forum id. yes
correct user id and name. yes
remove spam threads/posts. yes

Shouldn't those settings find the spam posts and post a notice in my mod forum ?

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/6818/spamof7.gif

does your screen resemble this?
obviously the user id and forum # would be based off your mod forum #.
it's working on my vb3.68 patch 2

edit. It started to work after a while ??? strange thing.

On another note. Would it be possible to add a user group setting to this spam buster so it doesn't check for spam on certain groups ?

and you're logged in with an acct less than 10 posts? Not your own acct?

I went into the admincp - created a new user/login
log out of the admincp/site
log in as my test user - make a post about free ipods and viagra or something on sale..
log out..

log back in as admin - look at the post. Mine was invisible and caught by the program... and has caught quite a few spam threads.

I don't know what to tell you - the guy who wrote it will have to help maybe?

A sound advice (pretty much what I would have recommended). Looking at his last post though it seems he has it sorted.

Re: usergroup inclusion/exclusion
It's something that will be in a future release. I think if you look back through the thread someone might have a hack that does it.

This is a great mod with only one major flaw.... That is the ability to specify whole words or boundaries. For example, if a person types the word "Virginia," the post will get flagged as spam (due to virgin in the rules). If they link to a jpeg (.jpg) it will get flagged as a link to japan (which is .jp). Without being able to detect spaces/etc or only matching a whole word, it becomes very difficult to make rules that work properly. I need a better understanding of the regular expressions used here.

As a side note -- is there a simple way to detect a link to any URL? Perhaps just the [url] BBcode?

-vissa

That's a limitation of the current set of rules not of the mod itself.

You're quite right - it's overly aggressive and needs to be reworked (I posted about this a couple of months back).

It shouldn't be too hard to look for those strings with regular expressions like:

That would search for virgin with non "word" characters either side of it.

vB does automatic URL parsing as well so http://www.google.com/ would end up being stored without the [url] tags but would appear as a link in the page.

I think your safest bet is to look for http:// (remember to escape the / so it'll read http:\/\/ ni the config)

James

I agree ... :up:

It's a great mod that started out well on our forums, but it seems to be nailing an inordinate amount of posts that have nothing wrong with them, except things like your "Virginia" example....;)

Too bad.... :(

Have reduced post count check to "1" to see if that helps only nail those first time registration then immediately spam types...

Regards,
Badger

I'd suggest reverting back to an older version of the rules and you shouldn't have these problems.


If anyone could do some refining of the rules that would be fantastic.

As and when I get the time I'd like to create a test setup where I can test the rules file against a set of known spam/geniune posts.

Thanks for the tips in the last couple of posts... Where can we get a list of the regular expression rules that are available/possible?

-vissa

The spambuster rules are all in the configuration/settings section of the admincp.

Google should show up some tutorials on perl regular expressions (which is the type of regular expression SpamBuster uses). Some of it can be a bit daunting though.

It should be fairly easy to modify the existing rules into the \Wvirgin\W style I described earlier.

I didn't know we could do that.... :)

It might help.... :up:

While maintaining the current code version, could you post the "old" rule set you refer to so we can plug it into the appropriate area under our AdminCP options?

Thanks...

Regards,
Badger

There's a text file at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=109258 which you should be able to open then copy/paste into the settings section.

Thanks... :)

Will plug the contents of it into the current version here ... :up:

Regards,
Badger

I've opened and reviewed the other text file. It seems very sparse (only links) compared to the one in the current release. I assume it will most likely have the opposite effect and catch far less spam, even though the current one is too sensitive....

I guess it's a matter of trade-offs....

I wonder if just leaving the current one and jumping on first posts only might be the best answer for our site... (thinking out loud)....

Thanks again ... :)

Regards,
Badger

Thanks! Spambots and spammers r so annoying. So thanks once again for some ammo against them. Keep up the good work.

works great **

Great mod. Is there anyway to change the post that it makes? I would like it so it posted a link to the mod "One-touch ban & clean" so all I'd have to do is click the link within the post, and the user along with all thier posts will be deleted.

I tried looking for the template - couldn't find it.

Hi - glad you like it :)

The contents of the post are contained within the code - ideally it should be a phrase but I never got round to that. To modify the post that it creates head to your admincp and look in "Plugins & Products" > "Plugin Manager" > "SpamBuster Libraries"

Just installed ;)
It'll sure help my moderators keep track of spam :D

very nice

A tip for those having issues with .info and india domains. REMOVE the .info entry from the rules. When a .info domain is entered into a post, it gets scored from BOTH the .info and india rules. I have a .info domian and everytime somone used an internal link it got scored twice.

Anyway of adding a feature to ignore certain forum ids?