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Awesome! Also, thanks for your quick reply :).

Lately I've been getting a ton of registration attempts lately, all with either iPod or iPhone user agents and the majority of them coming from the same host - vpn999. I have a couple of mods installed, Spam Hammer and Proxy Alert, which seemed to be blocking most of them - neither program sends me an alert email or PM when blocking a registration, sot their effectiveness was not really known - but a few were still getting through. This really wasn't much of a problem because they never confirmed the verification email and as a result had no access to my board. But it was still a pain.

So I was over on Ozzy's site and came across a thread about stopping spammers and decided to give this mod a shot. Wow!! In the little over a day since it's been installed, It's stopped 15 bots from registering and notified me of each one with a nice, clear PM. So now while they're still lurking around, trying to modify their user profile that was never created, I sit back and laugh at them. :D

I noticed that no one has posted in this thread for over a year and a half so I figured I'd give it a bump. It's a great mod and really helpful to stop spammers. If you decide to install it, visit Ozzy's site to download the list of hostnames and user agents which is what really makes this mod work so effectively.

Here's the original link that led me here. There are a few other very useful mods listed there also! http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/50...g-Spam-Is-Over

Huge thanks again to Ozzy47 and Max Taxable for their work to keep spammers at bay!!!

This is one of the really great and under-appreciated tools in the anti-spam toolbox. Glad you're using it as part of your moat and it's helping.

Yeah this mod,I am surprised it has not drawn more attention, I use it, and recommend it. :)

It works great. Blocked 25 so far and just keeps on going. Sure, some if not all of those may have been blocked by Spam Hammer or Proxy alert but I had at least 2 per day getting through and being able to register. Since I installed this mod, not one bot has made it in.

I did find it surprising, however, that every user agent blocked so far has been either an iPhone or iPod.

Yeah that is a new thing they try to do in order to get through. With this mod, and the rest from the post on my site, using the lists I included, you should be good to go. :)

The spam programs can spoof the user agent string. I have seen it happen on my board - failing to get in with IE 6 suddenly I see i-phone from exact IP and provider, not even 10 seconds later.

That's why this is a excellent bullet to have in the anti-spam gun. Still another layer.

I did download the lists and added them to the mod along with the 'vpn999' that I noticed all the bots were connecting through. All but 5 of the banned bots so far have come from this 'vpn999' host.

Is it wrong of me to get some perverse pleasure seeing these bots spin around in circles? I wonder if they will ever just give up? LOL :D

This prevent TOR users?