Originally Posted by StephenKay (Post 2167676)

Hi,
I'm having problems with spambots submitting multiple requests to register.php?do=addmember; thousands per day.
Of course, since I use the human verification option with graphics etc., they are unsuccessful in completing any registrations. But the traffic is slowing down the server greatly and my ISP is pissed off.
Will this mod do anything to alleviate that issue? Once they are detected by this, does that in any way stop them from making more requests to register.php?do=addmember?

Originally Posted by kpmedia (Post 2420995)

So few people seem to realize the resource hit spammers make. :erm:

The best way is to customize the register.php, and outright block IP ranges you don't need. For me, that's China, Russia, USA proxy/VPS servers, etc. I don't get any legit traffic from the places so it's blocked.

Use mods like this to get ones you miss or haven't added yet. Also use something like stopforumspam.com. The best anti-spam practices implore several concurrent methods to thwart junk.

Originally Posted by sv1cec (Post 2392692)

OK folks, for those who want to automatically enter the spam bot IP address in their banned IPs list, here is a version of the plug-in that should do it for you. It's been tested on vBulletin 4.2, I am not sure if it will work on previous versions.

----- code section ------
$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('p', array(
'isbot_time1' => TYPE_UINT
));

$ipaddress = IPADDRESS;

if ($vbulletin->GPC['username'] && $vbulletin->GPC['email'])
{
$isbot_time1 = $vbulletin->GPC['isbot_time1'];
$isbot_time2 = TIMENOW;
$isbot_timediff = intval($isbot_time2 - $isbot_time1);


if ($isbot_timediff <= 15) // difference in seconds
{
$isbot_username = htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->GPC['username']);
$isbot_email = htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->GPC['email']);

$isbot_subject = $vbphrase['isbot_user_blocked_from_registering'];
$isbot_message = $vbphrase['isbot_the_following_name_email_blocked']
. '
User Name : ' . $isbot_username . '
Email : ' . $isbot_email . '
Time to fill registration form : ' . $isbot_timediff . ' ' . $vbphrase['isbot_seconds_transpired'] . '
IP Address : ' . $ipaddress . ' ';

vbmail($vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'], $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

if ($vbulletin->options['enablebanning'] == 1 AND $vbulletin->options['banip'] = trim($vbulletin->options['banip']))
{
$banned = $ipaddress . " " . $vbulletin->options['banip'];
$db->query_write("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "setting SET value = '" . $banned . "' where varname='banip'");
require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions.php');
build_options();
}

eval(standard_error(fetch_error('noregister')));
}
}
-------------

Copy the above code and enter it in AdminCP/Plug-in Manager/Is Bot. Just click on Edit next to the "register_addmember_process", highlight the Plugin PHP code and paste the above code in there. Click on "Save and Reload" and you are done.

To verify it's working, next time you receive an email from this plugin, compare the IP shown in the email you got, with the IPs in your banned IPs list. The newly banned IP is entered in the beginning of the list, so it should be easy to spot.

My Christmas gift to you guys.

Originally Posted by vsd (Post 2558625)

Any possibility someone can show me how to stop the emails that are being sent with this plug-in. I read in a reply, someone said they did it, but not how exactly.

Originally Posted by oldengine (Post 2563069)

I'm observing that apparently GlowHost Spam-O-Matic takes precedence in processing over this mod. I'm getting tons of action on Spam-O-Matic, but I was thinking that "IS BOT" could skim off the first layer using less resources? No emails yet.