Will this work on 3.8?

Yes, I use the mod still and run the latest VB version.

bump on this topic, as I had a question. Monkey, the hack is great, but I had a question...

When I updated my word list, is seems to be extracting words from other words, for instance, if I post the word "pass" and the filter is set to moderate it minus the "p", it pulls "pass" along with anything else including that word; however, if I moderate phrases such as "I am going to shoot you" then it will only moderate that specific phrase.

Any ideas?


FYI:

I modified the code to send an email using sendmail, which in turn emails my cellphone text email, which in turn texts my cell :) I did this for my entire support team...it's a great feature, but the random texts got annoying over words such as what I mentioned above.

Hmm, that is a strange one. Can you paste in exactly what you put in your "Auto-Moderation Keywords" field in AdminCP? I didn't moderate phrases, but only single words (ie "viagra", "sex", or "http") and it has worked almost 100% to catch most spam. I'm assuming you're using it specifically for spam prevention.



I was meaning to add that feature! I'd love it if you sent the modified code my way so I can update the plugin with that feature for everyone... if you don't mind. ;) I'll remove your phone # and give credit etc. :)

Hi

I use this on vb 3.80 without any problems. One of the best mods out there!

BUT this mod does not work with visitor messages. I get currently massive spam over the visitor messages.

If this mod would include not only postings in forums, but also in visitor message with a user profile, this would help a lot!

Any chance to get this done with visitor messages?

Do you have an email? I'll just send a couple text files with the changes.

Thanks,
I'm sure it could be adapted to Visitor messages. I haven't had spammers hit me that way. The one I have seen them try is Signatures a lot though...

There's one way to fix either of these problems. Create a usergroup for people that have say, 10, 20, or 50 posts. Make it so regular users with less than this many posts do not have access to post signatures or Visitor messages. Unless the spammer starts after making 50 legitimate posts (very unlikely) their spam will never be seen.

Or for a quick fix, make your most generic/lowest post count usergroup have this setting applied:
Follow Forum Moderation Rules

In the guest/visitor profile page option of the usergroup CP ^^^


Sure, send it to dan -at- tweak3d dot net

Monkey,

Email Sent, sorry for the delay.

Np, saw it. Thanks and I'll look at it when I've got some time. :)

Hi,

Is it possible to avoid auto-moderating posts that includes internal URLs (ie. links to URLs within own domain)?

I've included keywords like .com, http, www and it auto-moderates posts that include links to my own site.

Thank you.

Induslady

Still loving this mod. The few spammers that get through are stopped dead in their tracks.

Why is this not automatically included as part of VB? If no-ones spam post appeared there would be a drop in spam attacks and attempts even from human spam posters.

Is there any solution to RSS feeds ending up in the moderation queue if the user is not logged in at the time? This is my only gripe with what is a superb modfication.

It would be good to see this project updated and moved to the VB 3.8 Forum.

Waynne,
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know what's different about 3.8, but I use this mod with the most up to date Vbulletin at all times and had never had problems with it. Should I just cross-post to the 3.8.4?

For the RSS question, sorry I'm not sure. I have done very little programming with the RSS bot and I'm not sure how you could check this status in the plugin.
-Dan

I presume the RSS bot has a userid which shows as 0 posts all the time. I'll see if I can work out what needs to be done but I'm no coder.

Please do post this in the 3.8 forum this is the single most effective spam prevention mod I have ever used. Any attempts to spam are caught in moderation allowing us to ban or warn the users. Other systems just block the post and the spammers accounts remain active.

I don't think this plays by it's own rules. I set it to moderate posts by users with less than 4 posts only. It's moderating a user of mine with thousands of posts and not allowing him to post a bunch of links. what gives?

Edit: Note - this user is an RSS bot. My temporary workaround is making him part of the moderator usergroup. Hopefully this will fix the issue.

We just installed this on 3.8.4 and it appears to be working. I couldn't find anything like it in the 3.8 version forum. We were getting overrun with spam despite our human verification requirement, and it seems this will stop it dead in its tracks! Thank you, Tweakmonkey.

What about an upgraded version for VBulletin 4?

Perfect,

I use a few choice keywords from the spam threads/posts that I have been getting, and I also have all threads/posts with URL's/Emails filtered too.

= ZERO SPAM, NONE, NULL

Excellent!

Thanks a lot man, this is what i was looking for. I would like to make a small donation for it, if you don't mind. Please tell me where I can do so.

Thanks again.

Is this been or has it been ported for 4.0.3 PL1 Please?

i am looking for vb 4 version too

vb 4 version would be great!

I just installed this, but if the spammer replies to a thread it will still send out e-mails to people who subscribed to the thread.

I installed this on 3.8.6 but no options appeared in vbulletin options... I refreshed the page, even tried from another browser, nothing... uninstalling. :(

Edit- Nevermind- found it under 'general settings' oops.

hmmm, just not working for me... got a spam today that repeatedly mentioned 'iphone' and '.com' both of which are words to 'scan for' and it was posted to my forum anyway.

Try this similar mod (with additional functionality) with support for vB4
Spam-O-Matic

Hi,
I have got this installed in my forums. Additionally now I want this Mod to do the below:

1. Analyze all the posts getting auto-moderated.
2. If it finds the auto-moderated post having an external link (.com, .net URL link), then it check if it is a first post by that user.
3. Then it should delete the post and the user registration too.

Appreciate your earliest response.
Thanks.

Hi, it works for vbulletin 4.2.1?

thanks

Do this works with vbulletin 4.2.2?

Try this similar mod (with additional functionality) with support for vB4
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248042

is it possible to exclude a user-group from this mod?