Thanks for your reply. I've learnt a lot about this tool today. I like the tool but I agree about modifying the username searches. My spam log has already rejected a few potential members.

Barry

When this mod searches their database, it's different than the general search on the website. I believe it already only searches for exact matches, whereas the search on their website always searches all fields.

Greetings all...

Interesting plug-in and have it running on AVSForum at this time.

Seeing we get 300+ new registrations a day on the site, I was wondering if their is a way to only log the rejections? You know, the log entries like "Result on field email - kokja@ua.fm - Spammer and rejected by policy"

Thank you kindly for your help and the very nice addition.

Probably, but it's a good thing to have both available. When looking at the logs, you can see where spammers attempt various login combos, and which ones get rejected vs. accepted.

Example: They're attempting to create a login by using a specific IP / username combo, but they keep changing the email address. 3 out of 30 email addresses aren't blocked, and all attempted within a 5 minute period. It's a safe bet those 3 are spammer accounts, and you can report them to the list.

How can one do that please ?

installed it and hoping it'll work.... anyway to test without being banned :}

the site does exact matches only but is case insenstive.

Spot on

again, as the thread is getting long and I know from these posts that people arent reading it in completion

vBulletin accepts the form, sanity checks it
Passes control to the mod. The mod does tests against the remote database and if all tests come back negative, passes control back to vBulletin for its checks, captcha, dup usernames etc.

If there are multiple logs, its because the mod has passed it and vbulletin has rejected it. There is nothing that I can do about other than attempt to supress duplicate log entries, but then you dont see the whole picture.

Look at the mod options

Thanks.

You can edit the php and comment out the line near the bottom that adds the log entries that you dont want to see.

Goto: -

AdminCP/vBulletinOptions/vbStopForumSpam

Barry