It's now back up. If you care about your forum - and more importantly, your members - then install this today.

I love this mod and its been working great for a long time but I still have to check registrations sometimes. Today I got another spam registration. Seems these guys are either getting smarter or using more resources to overwhelm them system.

I hope it gets fixed sometime soon. Like I said its one of the best mods on VB.Org

I thought it was just me.. but I have been getting database errors like crazy with this Mod. Seems to be working now though.

In the AdminCP setup page:

Does this mean if it fails to connect with the stopforumspam website database should it block or allow by default? Am I correct in that it should Allow by default in this situation? Thanks...

Installed in v3.8.7 PL2 and seems to be working. However, when I go to have a look at the log file, it displays...but at the top of the page I get nine (9) of these error messages on different lines:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /var/www/vhosts/myforumname.net/httpdocs/includes/init.php on line 55

and this single error message:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /var/www/vhosts/myforumname.net/httpdocs/includes/class_core.php on line 2552

Sorry for being a newbie to this, but could someone help me to understand what is happening here and how I might correct it? Working or not, I can pretty well figure out that I should not be getting this.

Thanks in advance for your help!

when clicking the link in the sp i get invalid post

I tried this mod on my latest version of PHP and it wouldn't work, it gave a deprecated message for init.php and class_core.php or something like that.

If you are trying a new install of this addon in a vB 3.8.x forum powered by MySQL Server 5.5.x :

• Download the zip file
• Extract and edit the product XML file
  • Change the (3) lines that have :

) TYPE=MyISAM;"

• and make them look like :

);"

With that change the product appears to install and function correctly.

Important security question:
How Can be the whole LOG or the IP log disabled ?

Spam on Blog. What can i do? Over 400 Message in the Blog or Privat side.

I cannot believe the amount of spammers i get on a daily basis, as exposed by this product which works beautifully btw...

I wondered, in the 'denied' phrase would it be legal of me to redirect them to an annoying site? i suppose these spam-bots are just targeting the usual vbulletin files using a program and not actually a browser? thanks

Installed, thank you. We'll see how this does against the mass amount of spammers I've been dealing with lately.

I was getting a ridiculous amount of spammers registering (over 50 per day) and this mod put a stop to it. Unfortunately it's also preventing a lot of genuine registrations too, I often get emails from people who have tried to register but been denied on the basis of being a spammer.

I switched it off for a while but was getting bombarded with spammers again, so I've now got it running again but it's still catching genuine registrations in the big spam net. Anyone else having this issue? Just wondering if there's anything I can tweak to fix the problem?

It's only a minor complaint by the way, this mod is a Godsend as having to wade through hundreds of registrations every few days trying to separate the few genuine ones from the spam is something I can happily live without doing.

If it's their name that's getting them caught in the spam trap, you could tell it not to check name and see how that goes. You're going to get some spammers getting through.

It boils down to which problem is worse: The legitimates getting caught, or the spammers getting through.

I would urge those using this Mod to think about donating to http://www.stopforumspam.com/

This has saved me so so so many hours!

Installed it in conjunction with my mod, which hold off 99% of most spammers. After installing this, this mod showed me the many attempts spammers actually do on my forum, since my own mod didn't log anything. Feels a lot saver now though :)

Just installed after spambots hit a chronic new high on my forums. Seems to be working for v3.8.7 PL2 so far...

Is there a way to show how many spam registrations this mod has blocked? Maybe in the What's Going On box? I'd like to show how many spammers have been stopped lol

Admin CP > Statistics & Logs > vbStopForumSpam Logs

Thanx, I know about the logs, I'd like to show some sort of stats on my forum page as well like the vb4 version of Spam-o-matic ... if I can :)

Bumping for those that like me didn't know this and had to search through the thread.

Worked a treat, thanks mate!

database must be down. Users are receiving messages saying "Registration denied. We check new registrations against a database of known forum spammers. At this time, we are unable to contact this database to verify your registration. We are sorry for the inconvenience but please do try again later.""

anybody getting the same problem?

Down for me too, I have a thread to let visitors know they need to request manual registration while the site is down, I also have added a notification to the registration page....better that than a hundred spam registrations to delete lol

Its working for me...

SFS seems to be letting some blacklisted IP registrations through. The log shows:

120.63.160.222 Allowed registration

But this IP is blacklisted: http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/120.63.160.222

What does this mean? Was SFS server offline and did it let the registration through? Or is there another factor at play?

This seems to happen frequently lately.

If this is a case of SFS server being offline, then please consider to add a 'automatically check in SFS database later' function.

It could be that your setting for 'Remote Expiry' is too low. If you set, say, 10 days any entries listed on the SFS database older than that will still be let through. Some suggest six months as IP addresses can be reallocated.

Installed this. Thank you!

Thanks for this, seems to be working well on 3.8.5!

Thanks you for the plug-in ;)

Awesome!

Flooded with spam registrations lately so I just installed this 4 minutes ago and went to the Admincp > statistics & logs > vbstopforumspam logs, and just saw that it immediately stoped 10 spam registrations (and counting by the SECOND...)! All within 4 minutes of installing this!

Sooooo happy! Thank you!!!!

vbulletin. 3.8.7

Add 'IsBot' too and it'll be even fewer.

I've just now installed that too. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you for this. Works perfectly!

I just wanted to clarify that you will need to do this regardless of which vBulletin version you're using, but just if you have MySQL 5.5+. You will need to implement this tweak whether you're installing on vB 3.7.x or vB 3.8.x for example.

Instead of removing TYPE=MyISAM if it is giving you a SQL error, change TYPE to ENGINE
ENGINE=MyISAM
Type was eradicated in SQL 5.5