I agree with you. People are pretty ingenious nowadays when trying to make money.

Anyway, thank you for sharing this script with us. I hope you don't drop support for it as I have no plans to upgrade to vBulletin 4.0 (I am happy with vBulletin 3.8.7). :p

I'd be curious if you and or the other guy can VIEW SOURCE of your page with the ad, and copy and paste here all the Google Adsense code present. I'd be curious to see if it's an ad from the same place.

I have again looked through this code, I am 100% sure this mod does not by itself add any type of ad to your forum. I am a little less sure however that StopForumSpam.com or AKISMET doesn't send some type of data to this mod that may contain an ad in it.

I really doubt this is the case but IF there was an ad being inserted it's from one of them, not this mod per say.

King Justice if you truly feel this mod should be reviewed you can use the "Report Post" image in the top post and report the mod, include your concerns. That will let the mods here know your concerns. Someone with more skills than I may take a look.

You are welcome :)

Well, this version isn't "officially" supported anymore but I definitely won't be pulling this site offline.

Thanks to you as well BirdOPrey5 for taking time to analyze the source code.

I am pretty sure Akismet doesn't do this since that is part of wordpress and I can imagine the backlash that would have. I don't see how SFS would be able to stuff this in either. We would have a ton of complaints from the SOM 4.0 thread and I haven't heard anything over there.

Those guys would be better off taking the adwords ID from the source code and reporting it to adsense so whoever is doing that will have their account shut down.

Great Mod :)

What would you charge me to fix the RSS bug for this mod in VB3? I use RSS alot but cannot at all with this mod. It moderates everything.

Is that the only thing you want fixed? Do you want to let the public have access to it for download here or it will be only for you?

First, thank you for this. I pray that it works because I have a f-ing spam bot that has been killing me and my staff.

I'm getting an error when I select Delete post as spam. After going through the motions and selecting "ban user" I get

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/myaccount/public_html/my_vbulletin_root_folder/includes/functions_vbghsfs.php on line 459

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

What else needs to be fixed? I dont care if the public has access to it or not honestly. I just want it to work. It's a bug which is killin me from being able to use this great mod.

:)

Hello !

Great mod, really. I installed it on vB 3.7.2 and it worked right away.

I have encountered a peculiar problem though.

Since I activated memcache, the plugin doesn't work anymore.

To activate memcache support, I simply uncommented these lines in vb's config.php :

And then, spammers again!

Looking at Spam-o-matic's control panel, I thought maybe to enter 127.0.0.1 and port 11211 as a proxy, but that didn't change anything.

Of course I understand this version is unsupported, but maybe it'll interest you. And I was intrigued by the fact that I couldn't find a trace of this problem by googling.

If anyone has a clue, all help is welcome. :o

I have a problem with this mod. I'm running 3.8.6 and when I go to edit user details and scroll to the glowhost options, I can't ban the user. I click submit and the user is not banned. I'm wondering if it reports them to SFS.com too. Any ideas?

I fixed it, you have to change the path of your modcp in the functions_ghsom.php file if it's different from the default.

Here's some keywords to add to your filter list :)

Which one do we use for VB 3.86, the most recent 1.2.8?

Yes, if it works. Then if it doesn't you can try earlier versions.

I have instaled it How can I test it on my site?

thanks

VJ

I now have it installed and hopefully working :up:

How do I access the logs?

Thanks

VJ

This is a great mod and I am grateful for it's release. Was the only thing that saved my forum!

However just to help a bit with the user who reported the Adsense code, this is in fact being passed after you do an in-line ban. It looks as though it is being passed from stopforumspam on a successful submit of an IP. See below:

Try it yourself by submitting a spam post in-line and then hitting escape on the screen that appears next to stop the browser from redirecting.

I plan to install to my vBulletin 3.8.7 forum but i have some questions

What are the problem with RSS becuse i also have a lot of RSS Feed to my foeum making Threads with news.

Any idea how to make not to take that AdSense Code ???

i am using stopforumspam and happy to stop spam.

now i give you one change your mod.

anyone find this ad code? where?

sorry coder your mod is good but i am force to unistalled and reason is BETA stage , install stopforumspam mod , dont like comments say ad sense code.

Is there any way to see if this is working properly once it is installed? I've installed it last night but it hasn't slowed down the influx of website/signature spammer signups at all. I'm still getting dozens of spammer signups every day. I've tried practically everything and nothing seems to help.

I've still got Human Verification turned on in addition to this... does it need to be disabled by any chance? I'm using Spam-O-Matic in conjunction with KeyCAPTCHA but neither seem to make any difference as far as spammer signups go. :(

Its not in beta, its the same as stopforumspam mod + additional features. Both mods are unsupported in the 3.x series of vB.

Regarding the adsense code, that is not part of this mod, that comes from stopforumspam or from mods downloaded somewhere else besides vbulletin.org.

Yes, take a look at the logs and see if they have any information in them.

If any of you are running version 4 of vBulleting, try the 4.x version of this mod as development is still active and supported.

However SorentoUltimate has provided me with some source code for an update which is a port of the SOM 4.x, which I am still looking over and will probably release in this thread once analysis is complete.

There is no ETA on that but I expect in a couple weeks maximum, probably less.

Ah, didn't realize there are logs. Yep, seems to be working, over 350 registrations barred in a day - but most of them are the same spammer trying to sign up over and over. However, 20 spam signups still came through in a day. :/

There are a lot of us still on 3.x so please don't drop the support for v3 of this mod - thanks!

A question... since a lot of sig spammers still get through on my boards and I want to report them all to SFS, what do I need to edit to make the ACP profile area SOM window have the "Remove user" ticked by default as well as "Remove All Posts" and "Submit to StopForumSpam.com"? That way I can just hit the Submit button and save 3 clicks for every spammer, which would save me a lot of time.

By the way, I see where the AdSense code is coming from... it appears on user.php?do=kill where an interim "Add a Spammer" page from StopForumSpam appears after a spammer is submitted. There is a 468x60 AdSense ad on top of that page.

I assume GlowHost could contact SFS and explain the issue and have them make a separate page with no ad code for plugin-submitted spammers?

I have a question for people using this: I started using this a couple weeks ago but today I checked the Spam-O-Matic log and I see lots of blocked registrations which is good, but I see "submitted to SFS" log entries for only 6 members when I know I used the box in ACP on the member profile page to ban and submit a lot more than 6. Looking at SFS in "my spammers" also shows I've only submitted 6. Anyone else having a problem like this?

First of all, thank you for this plugin.

Is there any way to mass-submit and delete users? I have 11,000+ users than I'm confident about them being spammers (using same value in a custom profile field), but I can't find an option to mass-erase them and report them.

Thanks.

I want to do the same :up:

Is there a way to use TypePad Anti-Spam instead of Akismet?

I'm answering my own question (I realize support is only given in the 4.0 thread).

Anyway, in a couple of places in includes/functions_ghsom.php there's some code like this:


but (on our server anyway) it was stopping the sessions from working, so if you tried to use the functions on the user edit page (in the ACP) nothing would happen (it would go to the ban or delete user page but wouldn't submit to SFS or delete threads). So I edited the code (in two places) to look like this:


the @ stops it from displaying an error that happens because the headers *have* been sent, but it seems to work in spite of that error.

BTW, I also commented out the part that deletes threads because the comment says "this is definitely ALPHA code" and I'm not sure if that's the right way to delete threads and posts.

Another question - does anyone else see an SFS page appear briefly when submitting the info? And if so, do you have any idea why it happens? I've looked at the code and don't understand how it's even possible.

Remove them via database. Quick & Simple

I recently received an email claiming to be from spamhaus.org, citing a large number of queries from my server IP address. It was suspicious enough that I would have ignored it, except that I recently installed this mod. Of course, they appear to want me to pay for their service. Is this mod doing queries to Spamhaus datafeed? I don't believe I have any other third party spam mods other than the integrated akismet filter.

The only Spam-O-Matic features I have enabled are IP check and email check.

Nope, this mod does not query to Spamhaus. It's probably a scam.

Also, to enable TypePad Antispam in this mod, simply replace
to
in the newpost_process hook, and do the same in includes/functions_ghsom.php. Next, replace
with:
Then get a free API key from http://antispam.typepad.com/info/get-api-key.html.

I've just received the same email (& have this mod installed).Seems a bit strange

Eveything was working fine for the past few months. But now I get the error below

Spam-O-Matic Tagged username - Zocaescopsy REMOTE_ERROR: Unverfied but allowed by policy

Can anybody help?

Thanks

Will there be also a 2.0 version (like there is for vb4) for vb 3.8.x?

Probably not, sorry.

That's a pity, but thank you for the quick response.

Thank you