There are problems on forum_rules.
Are there blank fields in the ACP settings? Are all the hooks enabled? What version of vBulletin are you on?

Did you do a new install or upgrade? If upgrade, did you uninstall the old version first?

Im using 3.7.3 Patch Level 1
and
Enable checks for registraion bots? Yes
Minimum Time for Registration Submission 1
Rules Page Hash Hidden Field Name UheKLwaQ
Register Page Hash Hidden Field Name iuwHJPQn
Email Notification Yes

all the hooks enabled

On a guess, I think there is a table problem. Uninstall product and install product xml again and see if we get the other fields filled out correctly.

showing the same msg

I got the same error - then I realized there were template hacks to be done :eek:

did the template hacks and everything works fine!


Are you sure that you are modifying the correct template?

IF it was an upgrade, the old edits need to be removed and replaced with the new template edits. Maybe that's the problem?

I had the 1.0.3 installed. When I saw this 1.2.1 upgrade, I uninstalled 1.0.3, went into the template edit and saw they were not reverted, so I went ahead and edited them in accordance with the 1.2.1 instuctions, then imported the XML, and tested the register page.

I got this:

In the meantime I've uninstalled the mod. Did I do something wrong? Should I have reverted the template code before importing the new XML? Thanks!

You didn't upload the functions file to the includes folder. I thought we updated the read me with that. I know I did on new install. I must have not added it to the upgrade section.

:up: Yup, working for me !! Upgraded from 1.0.3 to 1.2.1, made template updates and uploaded functions file as indicated.

Between this mod, NoSpam, and a potentially broken (?) ReCaptcha, 20+ registrations a day are now being blocked :up:. If any do make it through, I have new user moderation turned on, so they gotta past all that 1st :cool:

My bad. It was listed in the fresh install directions, and that was the route I had taken, but I had glazed over the needed upload of the functions file.

Retried and tested and all is well. Thanks again, noppid!

By the way, any chance that IP addresses can be included in the emails?

Also, in this 1.2.1 version did you add a space character after the listed email address and before the "Form Processing Time in Seconds" string? The emails in 1.0.3 would say "user@domain.comForm"

I got the space. Thanks, looks better.

I think we can add the IP. That shouldn't be hard. But remind me, I'm off for the weekend and I'm really burnt out on code this week. See ya soon.

Is there any way to make this script show the IP address the potential bot came from. That would allow us to be able to reconginize a common subnet and ban that entire subnet.

Thanks!

I use the proxy checker to address this issue:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131852

Spam bots almost always use a proxy IP so I use the script I linked to set to a later execution order to moderate users that registered from a known proxy IP. Every now and then I have to approve a user that must be real but I have not had a problem with bots registering for a while but I have a custom antispam setup that combines a number of scripts plus custom user fields that make my site just not worth the effort it would take to spam them.

Then, the one touch ban and cleanup takes me 1-second to remove the spammer that does try to get through. Life is getting better thanks to the great mods that have been shared here!

I am upgrading one of my sites to 3.7.x this weekend and I plan to install this on the new install as I like the move to the DB where it can not be faked.

Nope you didn't, and still haven't. I just had the same problem, lol.

Installed.

***Forth: Upload the contents of the upload folder.
I added it to the install, not the upgrade. Sorry. :o

I just re-uploaded it fixed the right way. Thanks!

I installed this and hope it works out...I am getting sick of these bots.

Thanks heaps..
Uploaded and working...:)

my vb version is 3.6.8 .... do you have this mod for 3.6.8 ?

As noted, it should run on 3.6.8 just fine.

Thank you for this - I have installed it with no problems. :) I bought my vBulletin software three weeks ago, and since then I've averaged one bot per week - and the forum hasn't even been released yet! :mad: I read on this forum somewhere today that the bots have recently got clever with capcha, so I'm pleased to see that this plugin will deny bots that complete forms too quickly. Thanks for creating a plugin that attempts to thwart them from a different angle! :D

Install was seamless, took less than 5 minutes. Very nice hack!

Does this plugin has any issue with this one?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=181731

As that one says I left some forms blank, while I filled all the needed information.

EDIT, just tested. It seems this plugin is having issues with the quick register for quest plugin.

The quick register hack will not have all the necessary hidden form fields to work with Stop The Registration Bots.

It's not a conflict, it's because the Stop the Registration Bots code is not added to the quick register hack. It can be done, but I won't be supporting that or coding it at this time.

XML in download file is still 1.2.0

lol

Just the file name. The product is versioned correctly. (versioned isn't a word?)

I'll update that for the fastidious.

You didn't read the install instructions. That one we know is covered and in there. Upload the functions file in the upload folder.

Suggestion: Make a log file like the vBStopForumSpam one does, so that it's easier to see the patterns of the bots.

We can probably do that. Good idea.

Thanks

Many kind thanks for this great hack!

Cheers this will be greatly appreciated. I get an unbelievable amount of bots registering on my site :(

Nice work Noppid. Installed and hopefully my problems will begin to fade!

nvm i fix the error


:D thanks man , nice release


but the mod will send a pm?

It sends an email if that is on.

Some have suggested we create a table and store a history. We'll see.

This doesn't work according to instructions in 3.7.4 get error missing field....

Installed.
Thanks

Great hack, Hopefully it will work well.

Thanks easy install...:D

374pl1, With this mod enabled the reg process is halting at register.php. Have disabled hack and all works again,, any clues?