I found a small problem.
I needed to resend the activation code for a new member.
In User Manager/Quick User Links/Email Activation Codes

The page is not found as it is looking for register.php
I easily changed web page address to my renamed register.php file but it would be nice to know what to change to correct this.

You're right- Fixed in new version 1.1.5. Thank you for pointing it out.

I added another plugin in the Admin CP user editing to deal with the name change. :up:

Many thanks, that did the trick.

I was planning to try this out over the weekend when I had more time but yesterday I had a bot swarm large enough to take out MySQL with a "too many connections" error (dedicated server). I got up early this morning to add this to 4 forums.

Where's your donate button, BOP5? I don't see one here or on your site.

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D'oh! Maybe I'm up a little TOO early. "Support Developer" :o

Thank you, it is much appreciated.

(On my site you need to register to see the donate link because I do it via the subscription system.)

That sounds alot more like a DDoS attack than just garden variety spam.

No.

1. They were hitting register.php and some of them got by the spambot timer add-on and registered with the usual spambot signature registration info.

2. There were enough hits in a short enough period of time to breach the "too many connections" limit had it been a DDoS attack there would have been a lot more over a longer period of time. I experienced one of those several years ago and they're unmistakable in their scope. This was a spambot swarm.

Re: The bolded. How?Got'cha.

The simple answer is because they exceeded the minimum time required by the add-on to be identified as human. Maybe that was because some of the bots have been reworked to compensate for anti-bit timers. Maybe it was because the bot swarm slowed down site response time enough that they met the crtiteria. I don't know.

But I can say that while the anti-bot timer certainly prevented a large number of spambot registrations for me, it didn't catch them all.

On the other hand, the effectiveness of the combination of the anti-bot timer and this add-on has been astounding so far.

I figured it might be.

Alot of people don't realize the timer add-ons are all page load time dependent. Terrible proxies the botnets usually use, and other factors can contribute to slow load times thus letting some autospam bots get registered.

Spam fighting requires layers of defenses and vigilance by site owners, for sure. It's not a casual undertaking.

What version of the timer add-on are you using? I'm still on the original v1.1.