My forum suddenly stop new member registration by VBStopForumSpam. Registration resume when I temporarily turned off the Plugin. If I turn on, there are lots of spam posting on the forum.

It affects all registrations. I have tried turning on and off several times to test the registration and therefore confirmed this is the case.

What can I do? Why it happen suddenly?

Forum version: vBulletin 4.1.9 Admin Control Panel

Appreciate your advise.

I am having the same problem. No one can register. But when I turn off Glowhost, they can register now.

I had TONS OF MALWARE on my site.. it was all over my Forum, and Google displayed that my site was "not safe". Freaks me out that you guys posted here that VBStopForumSpam is the culprit.

Anything being done about this guys?
- Super Concerned. :(

how can i report a spammer directly from the product instead of manually having to go and enter their details in.

The coder has not been on since last year so i suspect this mod will be getting uninstalled on many forums.
Sucks really as its a damn good mod.

Does it still work?

yes works great

A lot of genuine users are getting rejected lately so I am considering disabling this plugin, even though it has served the forum well for a few years.

Our forum is a local one so ideally I'd like to block the usual suspect countries.

Excellent. Anyone know if it is possible to have vB automate the log pruning? I've had this mod running for a few years now and just checked the log today to find over 100K entries.

So.... the upshot of recent posts on this plugin suggest that it can no longer be relied on as a stable plugin.

Which begs the question... what are vBulltin customers supposed to do to keep out the 'bad guys' ???

Works fine for me. Haven't had an issue for years.

No issues here either. Pulled the stats, and of our last 1000 reg attempts, 94.5% are obvious spammers and get rejected by vBSFS right away. Remaining regs are predominantly repeat attempts by the same two spambots tripping over my other measures. The result is that of the succesful regs that arrive in my new user moderation queue, only very few are spammers.

*EDIT*

Heh, one attempt even has "[c:\one.112233445566@gmail.com.txt,5,l]" as the email address :rolleyes:

very nice mod! thanks..

i saw a pic of log file in your post.. where can i found the log file in my admincp?

I cant see this voice in my log menu

I followed the install instruction and the mod look like working fine but i see no log menu option.
thanks for your reply

You didn't install it correctly.

yes, solved. thanx

I'm trying to reinstall the vbstopforumspam mod after an upgrade from vbulletin 3.86 to 3.87.

After the upgrade, the database was throwing errors and I repaired it by removing some plugins.
vbstopforum spam was one of the plugins removed.
I reinstalled the other plugins and they're working fine.

When I go to import the new plugin after re-uploading the files correctly I get this MySQL error in the admincp backend:

For obvious reasons I replaced my site, username and ip above with "__my ip" etc.
Is it just not confirmed working with vb3.8.7?
Or am I missing something obvious in the plugin xml I can fix.

Thanks in advance to the thread contributors for ideas and help. :)

After a while testing this mod i can say it works great. It happens that few real users are rejected by the mod. What shall i do in this case? is it possibile to bypass certain ip address?
thanx

Im getting this error when i try to install.. http://puu.sh/1nTWu Anyone else have this issue?

hello, I am getting this error:

Please help!

Replace all with in the xml file.

I am getting a similar error, but not exact:


Everything is working VERY well other than the db error e-mail for every spam registration, which is at anywhere between 300-400 a day now.

Same or similar fix?

Ahhh, I just realized my server is running MySQL V 4.0.27. Guess this isn't going to work after all... :(

A nightmare to get the MySQL updated in the past 24 hours that led to 2,451 database errors in my Inbox at lunchtime today, but we finally got it updated to 5.0.+ MySQL version to run this plug-in. And I have to say, it's been 100% effective already blocking 44 spam user account registrations and allowing 3 legitimate users to register.


THANK YOU FOR THIS PLUG-IN! It's fantastic so far and relatively easy to install. Nice work! :up: :up:

Everything is updated on the server, we're running vB 3.8.0 and while the plug-in is working, we are still getting about 20-30 very strange database errors per day. When the plug-in is shut off, it all stops, so it's something being driven by vbStopForumSpam.

They all have the "Swedish" and "Latin" notes in the errors, and we can't figure out what is causing them. I'm going to attempt to find 3.8.7 forum software when I get a chance today, but their current system for older software updates leaves me itch, so we'll see what I can come up with. It might help the issues with the database errors.

If anyone else notices something obvious, I'd appreciate any input.



doug

At some point in the past couple days (since 12/28) guests have not been able to register because they are apparently being tagged as a spammer. I confirmed this by trying to register myself and also was denied.

Has anyone else had this problem in the past couple days?

I checked my info against stopforumspam.com database and it is not in their database. So registration should be allowed.

Could anyone please let me know how to access vbStopForumSpam Log Viewer page shown in this image (below)?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...2&d=1208476300

Thank you!

It the Admin Control Panel, go to Statistics & Logs --> vbStopForumSpam Logs

Still getting loads of vB database errors mentioning Swedish & Latin language issues. Anyone?

Thanks ApexSpeed! This is helpful.

Wish I could have assist with the vb DB errors issue.

How are you guys dealing with members contacting you saying they're not spammers but can't sign in? Obviously they were banned elsewhere, but I'm afraid I'm missing out on many members because of this.

Ive been using this wonderfully with one of my VB 3.8.2 forum. But facing lot of spammers still finding ther way in my other VB 4.1.10. Am I missing out something? Please help..

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1801/vbstop.jpg

I noticed the same thing beginning last week.
I installed spam-o-matic thinking something was wrong.
Same results with that.

It just seems that these new registrants are not listed in the sfs database yet.

If you're running VB4, what you're missing is Spam-o-Matic. Works great, adds an excellent ban and report button to the forum, and is currently supported.

I definitely would (and do) choose it over this one if you're running VB4.

i'M getting this error:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `vbstopforumspam` (
APIKey VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( APIKey )
) TYPE=MyISAM;;

Nevermind i got it working.

Does this plugin work with VB version 4.1.9 ?

Hi guys,

I created a plugin for this product in order to manually report a user from inside the admin control panel, while seeing the user's full profile/editing screen.

I needed that in order to manually report offenders that were blocked by the Multiple Account Registration Prevention product and automatically moved to the "Users Awaiting Moderation" group.

I hope this little add-on is useful for other user who need a reporting tool inside the admin CP.

PS: You need to import this file as a PLUGIN and not as a product.

Thanks.

Nice addition... instead of just deleting the users that make it through the filters, we can add them. Excellent.

Now, all we need is a way to whitelist those users who are trying to register and can't because their preferred username is on a blacklist somewhere keeping them out.

This blocks too many legitimate users. Unfortunate. The User Agent block works the best by blocking IE6 and below and well as other bot spiders.

Only if you have 'User Names' enabled. Otherwise, it denies registrations from people on the SFS spammers database - what is there not to like?