anybody?

I am getting a 404 error...

when I ban a spammer using spam-o-matic. I can ban the person, click confirm, and then if it gives me a list of users with the same IP, I get the 404 error when I click on those user's names to ban them manually too.

From what I can see, it puts the path as user.php?do=edit&u=xxxx rather than myadmincp/user.php?do=edit&u=xxxx

My admincp folder is renamed for security reasons.... I suppose it needs to know if it's an admin or mod and put in the correct folder name based on their settings...

Also, when we ban people using Spam-o-Matic, the profile retains the website address and the signature. As these things stay on the profile page, they really need to be removed when the spammer is banned/submitted, otherwise the spammer wins by gaining a link to their website on the profile page.

Otherwise, this is an absolutely fantastic mod. :) Thanks! :D

where i see this info
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1297118184

From here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...5&d=1297118184

Where do O submit a spammer etc. I don't see it in the admin panel in their profile any longer since I updated.

very nice plugin, but is there a way to allow it for use only by Admins ?

thanks.

Help please

when try to post new thread get

Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_newpost.php(474) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/talkcake/public_html/forums/includes/functions_newpost.php(474) : eval()'d code on line 5

Have you uploaded all the files in the zip?

functions_newpost.php you are missing this php upload all files to ftp again and run upgrade make sure you turn board off and disable all plugins first

Actually he is missing includes/functions_ghsom.php.

see that now was late when I posted that

This work with 4.1.4?

Install a password protected test forum & check out if it spews any errors.

Dear Glowhost,

Can I have some feedback to the above please (posted on the 27th June)?
The IP check only catches false positives for us since the IP's recorded with StopForumSpam are typically all overloaded (Proxies, NAT gateways).

I have set the StopForumSPam: Remote Expiry to a lower number yet the plugin still rejects IP's with date&time stamped all before this number - so the expiry age does not seem to work.:confused:

Please advise?

In all other aspect the plugin works really well...

Can someone explain what it means when in the statistics & logs it says "Passed StopForumSpam checks. Sent to vBulletin Registration System". When I click the name these users are in the "users awaiting email confirmation" User group.
I can tell that they are spammers by the way the required fields are filled out.

Can I submitt the user to spam o matic without them posting?

You mean submit to StopForumSpam.com....

The short answer is no - only submit a confirmed SPAMMER User details - with good posting evidence (URL's and/or advert details).
Ditto for perceived hacking attempts
http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/v...ic.php?id=2929

Installed... Thanks

There is no IP whitelist function. I will add it to the list of suggestions but you can certainly have this coded on your own in the meantime.

Did you check the description next to that setting? It should pretty much tell you what 0 means in relation to real numbers.

Look above your post...I mean literally, one post. See the link in that post? Click that and you will find your answer.

That's how it is set by default. Users do not have access.

Lets say I ban a user for 30 days (suspension)

Will Easy clean-up delete all of his posts and report him to stop spam database?

Obviously I do not want this to happen.

I just want to make sure that if I have Easy clean up on and I ban (suspend) a user -- all of his posts are not deleted and the poor guy reported as a spammer to the database

It only does what you tell it to. Look at the page you are going to submit and check or uncheck the options that you want.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1297118184

OK
so this only works if I select spam-o-matic from the inline mod tool.

If I suspend somebody through the CPAdmin tool --- the user is not affected by spam-o-matic settings (such as easy clean-up) correct?

Well, what most people do is test these things on their own to see what it does.

There is no CP admin tool. If you have it, you have done something wrong.

Sorry I did not make myself clear.

If I ban somebody (suspend them) through AdminCP > Users > Ban User instead of the inline Mod tool

Will they be affected by the Easy-clean-up selected options?

No, you would see Spam-O-Matic options if SOM were to manipulate your users in any way.

Ban users in CP is a vBulletin function, not a function of SOM.

Thanks.
I think they should have a feature to submit a spammer to Stop ForumSpam once the pass the verification and haven't made a post.
I have a few like this and in most case they didn't verify there email.

Your proposal leaves the system vulnerable to users reporting false positives, resulting in a less accurate SFS database.

The idea behind a RBL like this is to only submit spammers who have actually been caught spamming, not to ban users we think are probably or possibly spammers.

This message keeps displaying when I attempt to install it from product manager.

Sounds like you are using windows. Try searching for your error in this thread. Its been answered several times.

My apologies. Thank you.

Glad you found it, enjoy :)

Sometimes spammers are so obvious it would be foolish to wait until they've posted before banning them.

Recently I've had a lot of people register from India, Pakistan and Eastern Europe (I never have any genuine users from those places), who fill in lots of details in their user profile, claiming they're in the UK. A Google search has revealed they've recently registered for hundreds of forums using the same information.
It's just a matter of time before they start spamming all those sites.

Wouldn't it be better to get them blacklisted before they start the spamming?


I've been reporting these people to the SFS database manually, it would be nice if I could do it from within my vBulletin control panel.

No - since this may lead to board admins listing user details for posts they just happen to disagree with or perhaps have some kind of grudge against a certain board member.

As the Internet mail filtering administrators have discovered over the years - defining and identifying SPAM is actually not that straightforward - what is SPAM to one person is legit advertising to another.
To keep things simple we just want to focus on Unsolicited Bulk Emails or Posts (UBE/UBP) - the same advert or advertiser submitting to a large number of multiple recipients. In the case of forums this will be mainly from Spambots and will reflect as multiple entries for the same username/email over a period of time.

For a collaborative Database like StopForumSpam to be meaningful they presumably thus only consider submissions with clear cut 'SPAM' evidence.

Its then up to a plugin like Spam-O-Matic to interpret and make a decision on rejecting a registration based on the information presented there.
But it would not surprise me if this plugin has to be fine tuned in the future with a scoring system perhaps similar to http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SpamAssassin (for SMTP/POP mail) in order to reduce the number of potential false-positives.

Under "StopForumSpam: Desired Action", what exactly does the option for "log and continue with registration" do? Does it just allow them to register as a normal member and post? Or does it put them in a banned/temp group? We *really* need an option to put them in a banned/temp group if it doesn't already because of the following:

I'm starting to get an increase in false positives from stopforumspam.com. Some of these users have used the 'contact us' to report such false positives. Some of them may be members that other forums have banned and reported for whatever reason even though they weren't actually spammers. However, because they are not registered in a banned/temp account, I cannot reply to them or activate their account. Sending them a personal email would be far too time consuming. Advice?

Thanks!

Board admins can do that anyway, the current system won't stop that from happening.


The Stop Forum Spam database doesn't require a url to prove that spam has been posted. It would be pointless if they did as it would be deleted anyway.

Hi glowhost:

Thank you for the spammer software, but do not stick your ads in my footer forum, because it is not very nice for not asking me first. I thought your soft is preventing spammer, but you are the first to spam me on my forum. I can give you a space when I am completely design my website. I have no issue with that. For now, please remove it.

I am very upset!

Thank you.

Victor

Here is the link:
http://kieumau.net/forum/forum.php

You can turn the link off from within the settings. Read the FAQ in post 2.

It does exactly what the description says:

"What should happen if the new registration is listed in the StopForumSpam database."

If a spammer is found, you have 2 options. Log and block them from registering, or log and allow them to register. if you allow them to register then the rest of your settings control what happens from there...

Yes, they would go to the "newbies" group (as you called it a "temp" group) if you have set the system up for newbies management.

I don't know why you cannot activate the,m...just go into their profile in admin cp and change their group to registered users. If they were not able to register at all, then look at you log and see why they could not register, then decide how to adjust your controls to whatever suits your needs.

with this on my 4.1.4 it wont allow any posts from the quick reply box this error pops up

with the product disabled it did the same, with the product un installed quick reply works

Many people are getting this.
Is the only solution right now to disable IP check?

I'm running 4.1.4. Installed this mod and love it so far. Was amazed at how fast the spammers glommed on after my upgrade from 3.8 to 4.1.4.

Everything seems to be working fine, except for my Logs on the backend under Statistics and Logs. I just get a white frame with nothing. I'm on Firefox on a Mac. Not sure if it's a browser issue or something with my config.

Thanks!