I don't understand what your problem is.

its working great
using both captha and nospam
tnx :D

Installed and Voted mod of the month :cool:

I've got 3.7.4 installed and was getting a couple of spammers/bots registering every day .....

After installing this none ... now when I look at "Visitors to the Site" (Guest Tracking mod) I see a whole lot of visitors from the one IP that doesn't look like a bot or spider to me - just showing as a visitor but with multiple IP's around 94.102.60.162 ... any one know how to discern a visitor from a bot etc from the IP??


rotor

thank you, whe I updated my forum from 3.6 to 3.7 doesn't work anymore this hack in his previously version

On one of my sites I'm getting lots of: Called with DO = 'editprofile' AND Called with DO = 'editpassword' all from the same IP range? Anyone have any idea what's going on ......

This mod ROCKS! :D

Thanks antialiasis

Thank you very much.

maybe each forum should have its own NoSpam q/a for bots. I think this would eliminate 99.9% of bots altogether...even if the bot got in, with the multiple of q/a on each forum, I doubt the bot would get very far, it would just take a second for a human to pass, but a bot, and the q/a could be changed at anytime.....

At some point, your going to pass an acceptable level of effort having to be taken by users who are not bots, just to deter those that are. I don't think I'd be alone in saying that making a set of security questions per forum would be taking security a little too far. Kind of like putting a coded key pad on every door of your house. Would it make it harder for thieves to get get to your valuables? Sure. But would you want to live in a house where you had to key a code every time you went from one room to the other?

Installed. Thanks!

I guess if someone did a better job on protecting the front door to begin with...I would not want to have to lock every door in the house. I think this option should be there, and it would be up to the individual forum owner if he wants to place a code on certain or all forums...if a user can take 5 seconds to fill out the tag slot, then they can take 1-2 seconds to answer a simple question before submitting their post. I think some people would respect a forum for taking such action, and they would not mind answering an easy question....unless you are a member of a forum and you love to see 30 porn messages every time you log in to the forum....maybe your into that...but personally, i am sick and tired of seeing 20-40 posts, weather it is a live post or the msg is waiting for a mod to approve...and for those forums that are forced to use mod posting because of spam bots, maybe this option will allow them to set their mod posts to live.....drastic times call for drastic measures, otherwise whats the point of keeping the forum open just for porn and spammers? and if a user/member is really that lazy to answer an easy question in order to keep a forum clean, then more then likely they will not really be a quality user/member anyway...

I really don't see how that comment was necessary.

The point I was trying to make was the problem with drastic measures is you start impeding the experience of your users. My question is, if humans are registering to get past your NoSpam! verification, then what good is a NoSpam! on a forum by forum basis against those same humans?

This idea is not meant for human spammers, we all know that a bot is unlimited, and will continue to spam, spam spam then a human ever could...one issue at a time, bots can be stopped if you really want them to be, humans you just have to deal with. If i was a human spammer, I would rather let the bots do it, and they do not get tired, if I had to spam forums by myself, it would get old and boring rahter quickly, again its just a feature that the individual admin should have access too, it is up to them to use it or not...personally, I would rather have something to stop all the bots cold, because most forums are not human s, they are bots doing what the humans created them to do because they were to lazy to do it themselves... if you stop the bots, the spam war will slow down a great deal.

Thanks for this!

Thanks, lets see if this helps reduce the amount of spam sign ups I get :D

would this work on 3.8?

haven't had a bot post since i installed this -- a+

uninstalled.
Super Moderators change for limited access.
can't edit post. can't change thread title, can't lock thread. and anything else.

yes :D

That has nothing to do with the mod.

When i have this addon installed

Guests cannot make a forum search

gives them an error :(

i uninstalled and my SM acces normal.
then??
that has nothing to do with mod??

Just wanted to follow up since installing this two days ago I have not had a single spam registration. Prior to it I had the default VB Q&A function and they were easily getting through so it appears that they have found a way to beat that.

well update after 2 moths this is stil lworking great, i even got rid of recapture which was a pain in the back side for people to read, now with this mod alone ive gone from 20 spammers joining a day to none in two since using this mod 2 months ago.
no more stupid capture pictures that annoy people when signing up. now just a simple easy question that actually works

Hi all I am new to all of this. I am trying to install it due to spammers on my new board. I am running:

3.7.4

I am trying to install nospam through the admin control panel:

Manage products > Add > Browse but when I locate the file on my hard drive and import I get this:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp/php_upload/phpFbVohE) is not within the allowed path(s) in [path]/admincp/plugin.php on line 1639

No file uploaded and no local file found.

ANY help appreciated!

Installed, Very nice I have both anti spam running plus rules timer and a must read timer and i have Zero spam !!!!

Sounds like your host has restrictions on where scripts can run from. Have you ever tried installing a mod before or had a problem before?

Installed! Working Just Great!

Great app. Thanks!

Installed with version 3.7.1 and went from a dozen bots in six hours to nothing in an instant.

No known operational problems thusfar. :up:

is there already a possibility to use it with 3.8 rc1?

great, :D

*/installed

Excellent. No more annoying headache-inducing pictures! :up:

I have installed this mod along with "AWC's SpamBot Protection", "Prevent Certain Time Zone Registration", "Stop the Registration Bots" and "vbStopForumSpam".

I had 6 bots on Christmas day and Boxing Day combined which, I know, is very little compared to many forums, but I lost my rag with it this evening and went crazy with the spam busting tools! :p

*gets boxing gloves out* :eek:

Great mod, thanks! :cool:

how can add this plugin to
quickly register on any page with Human Verification Manager
1.7.1
?

It works with 3.8 RC2 like charme..
I've translated it into German :)

I get this error

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 1

Nice hack but when I tested it by sending myself a message as a guest it redirected me to a page telling me i did not accept the terms and registration could not continue.

That seemed odd since I was not trying to register.

I disabled the hack and things were fine when I sent another message to myself as a guest.

Installed on 3.7.4

Thank you.

Thanks!

thanks hope this works been getting Whacked with a bunch of spam from new members
marked installed

This hack stopped the bots dead! Thanks again for an amazing tool.