I don''t think you read my previous post about what it actually blocks and what not. It blocks only those who use the open ports I mentioned and not AOL users or entire countires. For my needs this works great and for others as well. If you don''t like it don''t use it, very simple. Or modify it yourself as you please for personal use :)

I have coded this for another forum that I use and I haven''t had a problem with aol users. I agree, not all forums cater to Large corporations that use proxies. And most of my members are home users too.

You are welcome.

I had implemented a similiar thing at a mod I have coded for another forum software and it didn''t work for the reasons I posted in my earlier post.

Can you improv it to adslock. Like person who use adblocker addon on firefox can't view forum. It will be great addon maybe best addon of the year.

I still think the tool is a bit blunt.

Yes, it might be all you need for your forum, but I think to win nominations from the community it needs a little more capability for their needs. Perhaps find a half-way house to the suggesiton I made earlier in post #15?

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you do consider to develop the mod further. It's got a lot of potential. :)

i had to un install it ,
its was really slowing down my forums and cms
loading times went from 10 seconds back to normal speed

My hack doesn''t influence the speed performance in any way btw.

Did you know about "Resource allocation" ? This hack does influence to speed performance.
Each request allocate memory for php (not for you hack directly) and wait up to 2 seconds for normal users with port 80 closed by firewall.
On typical server this can be increase requested memory for two times or more.

well done can u make it for 3.8 please so i can use it :)

It should work on a 3.8 forum. Remove the version from the <dependencies> and you should be all set.