What I find is that any anti-spam software that uses username checks, you get a ton of false positives. If you haven't, I'd recommend disabling the username checks and leave the IP checks on. I've been running this one my forums for some time now and haven't had anyone report any false positives with the username checks OFF.

Why am i forced to have an affiliate link for Web Hosting on my site???

Read it again....

One of our user needs to be approved on all his post...

In the log, it is stated :

How can I remove this?

Thanks.

What I am saying is that I used to be able to submit info even before a person posted a message. I could go into the admin and do it. Now I can't. I just had a bot from Egypt join my site and go straight for the pm system. No posts. So I delete the user, don't submit the info because that function isn't there and do the same thing all over again when they rejoin a zillion times over the month.

Unless I am missing something.

In that case, read the FAQ.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....04&postcount=2

Your question is addressed there. Look for it in v 2.5

Read all of the settings for SOM and you will find the one responsible. It is going to be in the auto-moderation section.

Hi, I have not had a reply to the post I made which is quoted above... maybe it was overlooked....

Is there any solution I can do to recify these issues?

Thanks in advance :)

Can't answer your first questions, but regarding the links etc in banned usergroup profile, simply change the radio buttons in usergroup otions, so that they are not viewable on memberlist and further up the page revoke their signature permissions.

If you are using the newbies group disallow them to have a signature and the problem with signatures is solved.

As for the 404, that should not happen. Perhaps you have an older version installed than the latest version?

But at the end of the day is there any reason to hide the admin directory? Security through obscurity is not security.

please, please how soon can we have a version compatible with vB 4.1.5?

Umm....now.....

hi hmbeaty! ran into some compatibility issues with this super mod once i upgraded my forum to 4.1.5 today. per chats with vB support, part of the code on Spam-O-Matic interfere with advanced posts resulting in an error message. i've had to disable my Spam-O-Matic although i can't wait until a compatible version is available!

are you referring to a recent upgrade to expressly make this mod fully compatible with vB 4.1.5? if so, please advise as i'm eager to have this mod back up and running on my site :)

Thanks, I was really pissed of with the spam on my website, Now I can control spammers and their spam.

Looked good on paper, but the mod is just generic SEO spam itself.

Tried to disable the affiliate link, but it still shows up, setting it to enable causes two to appear, absolute pisstake.

I got up this morning and ran some of my normal maintenance routines on our site, that I've been running for years ....

I ran the Update User Titles and Ranks as I always do, except today for the first time, I received this error message, which seems to be releated this mod.

Why has this mod starting doing this after it's been running fine for a long time and what can I do to fix it?

I've been running v1.2.8 of this mod on our vbulletin 4.1.3 with no previous problems whatsoever and I'm happy with what it does, so I do not want to upgrade...

If I disable this mod, the problem goes away and Update User Titles and Ranks function works normally with no errors ...

Thanks for any feedback...

Regards,
Doug

Uhh, disable the affiliate system + disable the "give thanks" link and your links are gone.

The only pisstake here is your comment.

*cough* and failure to read :p lol *cough*

:). I always wondered why it was easier for some people to take the time to write comments that don't make sense and bash software authors for user mistakes, instead of spending that same time to RTFM.

@Badgerdog, I have never seen that error. It's the first report of it.

@4play its running fine on our 4.15 board so I am not really sure, this is also the first I have heard of the issue.

this has been running fine for me since vb 4.0.1 to vb 4.1.5 and still going...

haven't worried about spam since...

I have to say if there's one downside to this mod it's that I no longer get to use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE, and delete posts

@ GlowHost - I think your mod absolutely rocks! So this mention of a compatibility issue with 4.1.5 is not commentary on the mod so much as an issue that arises whenever I enable it.

With Spam-O-Matic turned "on" (enabled), whenever a forum guest tries to post an ADVANCED comment on the board, they get the following error message on my forum:

Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_newpost.php(466) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/thendkey/public_html/includes/functions_newpost.php(466) : eval()'d code on line 5

At the advice of vB support, which opened a ticket for the issue, the moment I disable Spam-O-Matic, the advance posting feature works fine and the error message above suddenly disappears. Support hypothesized that functions_ghsom.php was the likely culprit as it's not found in vB 4.1.5. If you have a workaround or if you think it's an issue specific to my board I'd love to hear it as I very much miss having Spam-O-Matic on the site. It's a truly superb mod that every forum should have!

We have been seeing spammers use the Home Page field for spam links. It would be great if in the next version of the plugin, it also checks that field for spam links before a new user is allowed to post something.

Also, we have seen spammers get past the filters by posting numerous messages, each with an attached image and/or a short message without any links. Then once they get past the Minimum Post Count for moderation, they start posting messages with their spam links.

It's hard to prevent these spammers from registering since they are using gmail/hotmail and have wide IP address ranges that are hard to block.

Anyone with suggestions/solutions for this?

Try the following mod:

Disable Member Homepage Profile Option based on Post Count or Usergroup

Perhaps users of this mod need to turn on PHP error_display?

I checked with a vBulletin developer who is doing some work on our site about why these errors had started and he said ..

So, I guess they have always been there, but not showing on the screen because the error display has been OFF.

He didn't indicate how it gets fixed though except that the developer of the add-on needed to address it?. Any idea where (or how) I set the PHP permissions so that these general errors with the file functions_ghsom.php belonging to GlowHost stops happening? BTW, they appear when users log in and log out of the site as well.

Regards,
Doug

I have found that when I have 'log and block' chosen everyone gets blocked and obviously the log and register option lets spammers in. I have EVERYONE going to moderation but its a pain to clear them all. Its much like the 'allow new registrations:yes/no" option.

Is there a setting I may have missed?

UPDATE:
Was having an error due, in part, to the following line:
functions_ghsom.php

In deleting this mod and doing a full reinstall, Spam-O-Matic now appears to work fine again! Totally thrilled because this mod is essential for any forum :)

Thanks, this is what I've been after too. I did mention this problem in an earlier post, but I think it was misunderstood. This mod does just the job, as homepage links still apprear on profiles when members are banned, so we've been removing them manually. This will cut our workload in half! :)

Any way to ban the user using glowhost from the ACP?

I found some spammers who joined up to put links on their signatures but I cant seem to find the option to ban them from the ACP when you click edit profile.

Use the drop down on the right to change the usergroup to banned members.

I did that, enabling the affiliate system added two links, rather than just the one.

sigh your mod caused me alot of headached, when i uninstalled through product manager and then rmeoved the files i get

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'akvbghsfs_akismet_permissions' in 'field list'

so i then tried to reintall reupload the files but when i try uploading the xml file on product manager i NOW get this
Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

mysql 5.5.13

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `glowhostspamomatic_log`(
`date` DATETIME NOT NULL,
`ip` VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL,
`email` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
`username` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
`message` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
`is_blocked` TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT "0",
`user_hash` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
`user_id` INT NOT NULL
) TYPE=MyISAM;;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 10
Error Number : 1064

Is there a way to setup a notification (email/PM) alert to notify admin or moderator that a post has been placed in moderation and needs to be reviewed?

Had the same issue after updating with the same error message, removed and reinstalled and working again many thanks for the advice

Should be:

I had to disable this product because it left me unable to post (I was getting a blank page after I submitted a post). Anyone have problems posting after they installed this? I really want to use this because I have an overwhelming amount of spam on my site

By the way I am using 4.0.3

Had a similar problem when I updated to 4.1.5
All you have to do is reinstall or just add the missing file from Spam-o-matic.

If it does not see the file and spam-o-matic is installed (even partially) - it will generate that error.

It was driving me nuts until I figured it out

I am getting this error

when I make changes to usergroup . :(
please help

Can someone help me?

I am having trouble register a forum account via vbulletin mobile android app that I bought as a suite. I noticed the plugin is causing the problem.

Can you help to teach me how to add the code below?

But how to insert and where?

i cant use "Go Advanced" Posting.. any solution?
thanks!