Pretty quiet here. I guess all is well? I have the cleaner automated version of this ready to go if there is an interest.

Thanks

yes pls

installed :d

Installed on 3.7.3

I will report back in a bit to let you know if it was successful in preventing bots or not.

Installed

Installed. I left everything at the default settings. That should be OK, right?

I've installed it, and left everything default in ACP. I'm hoping this will stop all of the registering I see going on in WOL as guests. Then find there were'nt any during that particular hour.

Please.

Has anyone tried this on either version 3.7.2 or 3.7.3?
If so, did it work ok?

3.7.2....still waiting for an email, but it looks like one of mine got in today.

I wholeheartedly agree with you. Spam bots are becoming an increasing problem and we need a very advanced solution for this. There are various useful hacks to counter bots, but it is not possible to combine several of them. Especially those hacks that deal with the registration. It would be nice to have one integration for all of them.

Would this hack work with:
Enhanced Image Captcha - Stop bots from signing up!
vMail - Verify Mail before registration.

How is this supposed to work? I have it installed and enabled, but WOL still shows googlebot, yahoo slurp still actively trying to register. Though they don't end up registering, I'm not getting any notifications or anything.

lol those aren't the bots you need to worry about ;)

in fact, you WANT those bots on your site. :)

Oh, I don't want to get rid of them, I want them to stop trying to register.

Thank you very much for this. I will install ASAP on 3.7.3 and report the results.

Bots have been a serious issue these past 3 months, and I thank you for the time you have spent to improve the vB experience for the whole community.

**INSTALLED**

good to see a 3.7 mod by ya noppid :)

Great stuff Marked as Installed

Thanks

disallow them from register.php, by listing this in your robots.txt

Here's what I have listed in my robots.txt file:
Disallow: /calendar.php
Disallow: /editpost.php
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /misc.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /printthread.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /admincp/
Disallow: /modcp/
Disallow: /online.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /poll.php
Disallow: /attachment.php
Disallow: /avatar.php
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /profile.php

User-agent: Custo
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 10

It is possible to not get the emails? I currently get about 40 a day from the ISbot mod from Calorie...and it kills me deleting them from my phone since the email system is linked.

Same for me--phone deletion and all lmao.

Could you please inform me how to get email to sms connection? Is there a Gateway?

Great mod. Installed

excelente producto mi bro asi ya no tendre que instalar pueden ver otro demo aqui

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im definetly gonna try this, latley in the last week or 2, ive been getting crazy amounts of World of Warcraft Power Leveling and Buying Selling Gold adverts, and its annoying.

what exactly do i need to change in the options??

THANK YOU! This really helped me during todays little spam run!

Registration bots seem to fly off the handle recently. I've got quite a surge of registration attacks. Had to switch to moderation of new users.

I'd also like a way to disable the email notification, but it works great. Thanks!

Installed. :D

Kyle

Installed. Only 1 bot succeeded to breach the firewall versus 20 to 50 a day before. That sucker was manually deleted.

Just a heads up, I must not have subscribed and missed these posts, sorry. I have an upgrade ready to post, it automates some stuff but works the same. So everyone is still safe.

BTW, since I installed this I have had maybe two or three bot attempts. I have had so many in the past few days, it's scary. But NONE of them got through to register. :)

awesome, dude. thanks for the great mod!

I like to say there's always more than one way to skin a cat. This is one way. There are others, but I prefer this as it's transparent.

Thanks for the kind words.

It seems everyone is having the same issue lately as me.. several registration bots are popping up each day on my forums, lol.

Was very glad to find this, and have installed it without any issues.

However, I do have one question. For now, I have the second part still at 15 (which I guess is default) what settings do you find the best? Should I lower it to 10, etc?

Awesome mod.. thanks!

I wonder how to make sure the mod actually work? I installed it but would like to see something that let me know there are spammers who want to register but got blocked?

I have only gone a low as 12 myself. An update coming will include JavaScript to tell the user how long they have to wait to hit submit.

I thought about displaying the time real hard and don't think it's an issue.

If a spammer gets caught, you get an email to webmasteremail. In my experience I have found it best for all three vBulletin notification emails to be the same. But that's another thread about getting the mail through.

I have also updated this modification to note that it will work on vBulletin 3.6.11.

I was going to ask if this mod would email me if a bot was stopped, like isBot does, but it didn't take long to find out! Great job... Thanks!

Giving it a go...

Yep, and you can submit the offending email address to spam databases with the information emails.

Good to hear that this is helping.