try removing the TYPE=MyISAM; from the file and installing it.

Us too. It's not working like on our vb 3.x forum. On vB4 the spam is just out of control. I think they are pausing and coming back later. I am thinking the cron job to delete valid ids we create needs to run much more often. Or better yet give them an expiration time of only enough to register.

OK, I have to admit to installing a bug. The fix will be posted shortly.

The new updates and fixes are posted. Thank you.

There are a few places where we just kinda let registration die when it goes wrong, but those places could in theory go somewhere.

I've just installed it and I'm having the issue of new registrants never getting past the birthdate question. When you hit proceed, you get the message:

"vBulletin Message
You have left a required field blank."

We are running 4.2P2

Thanks.

If this is a new install, read the edits section of the install carefully and check those. You can find out if the hidden fields are being sent properly via view source in your browser.

Make sure all the uploaded files were over written.

Uninstall the product file and reinstall it.

Post a url to your reg page.

It worked! Thanks man, really apreciatte it! :up:

tagged this mod....noob question: does it work with vb 4.2.0 PL3?

Stop the Registration Bots for vBulletin 4.2.0 PL3 and up.

First line at the top of the description.

got it thanks...told you I was a noob.....LOL

I installed it and seems to be working just fine! THX!!!!

Hi guys,

Been using this for ages now, but I am now getting some serious problems with it.
It's blocking plenty of spammers but it's completely blocking new registrations too.

I've looked for a 'white list' but there's no way I can do anything about like like;
"allow or deny Jack Jones" check box.

Any ideas as to what I can do?
When people try to register they get "Registrations disabled" or words to that affect.
It's all enabled and allowed, it's STRB blocking genuine registrations and not one or two but massive amounts.

it's difficult to search for users in my emails as I get email notifications about spammers every day, up to 5-6 times a minute..

I hope someone can help me - I'd be very grateful.

Thank you

not working on vb4.2.1

please fix

It works fine on 4.2.0 PL2.

Can noone help with this blocking genuine user registrations?

:confused: :erm:

I also get registration error in VB 4.2.1. The error is that a required field was left blank, but I've verified all user displayed fields are indeed filled in. It works fine if I disable this plugin.

I just upgraded to 4.2.1 and I am having the same problem. Is there any chance of an update? It would really be appreciated! :)

Fixed

Running latest version of VB and this plugin, getting the error message: You have left a required field blank.

Checked and double checked the code.

doesn't work with 4.2.2, it always says the following when trying to register a new account


EDIT: redid the addon install and it's working now.

I am running 4.2.2 and the most recent download. I have been unable to find an answer to the "Field left blank" problem still. I thought I read most of these posts but I may have missed something?

I didn't remove the old one before i installed/upgraded. should i just delete the old one now or will i mess something up.? (maybe i should uninstall the old one then re upload the xml?)

Thanks

This great little mod just stopped a swarm of attempted registrations from bots in Russia and Ukraine over the weekend.

fyi....I'm running 4.2.0 PL2 and it's working fine.

I just block Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in my .htaccess file.
You can also do that with a list of known toxic spam address from stopforumspam.com.

These measures made forum spammer registration manageable.

Yeah, I just added China, Russia, Ukraine and Nigeria to the IP list. It's getting longer every day

Glad to hear this is working for folks. Thanks!

It would be great if it would email the IP address used after the bot's been blocked.

It would also be great if it would log that IP address for further review. Maybe we want to submit the IP address(es) to stopforumspam.com, or maybe we want to manually ban them or their CIDR range.

It does include the IP address in the email to the admin

I use it and it's working great!

Does it randomly change with each UV to the registration page or is it just randomly generated once during installation/configuration?

I don't see that anyone addressed this issue. I have had to disable this mod because of it.

I am running the latest version (4.0.2) with vb 4.2.2, but have potential members tell me they are not able to register because of the blank field issue.

Any ideas? Thanks.

any ideas about field left blank??

anyway, when we set in register settings in admincp - Disable COPPA , then error occures.
when there is a - Enable COPPA - error disappeared.

Can the problem with blank fields be solved, please?

I just this week upgraded from vb3 to vb4. I installed this mod this morning, and it might be the single greatest, most useful mod I've ever installed. Thank you for this.