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can't believe this plugin hasn't been updated for 18 months, yet it still seems to be working generally ok ..

wondering if there's anything that could be done about recent spam posts that seem to be in other languages (besides English) ? Some of them have weird lookin characters as well, not even sure if it's a language or not.

but we should be able to prevent those somehow... no ?

Yes for the most part you are going to have to set up a new user group for new members, limiting permissions and setting up auto moderation in S-O-M. The are instructions on the creators site. Very few get through the block, but selecting the post and using the mod tools you can ban, remove all posts, and submit info to stopformspam at the same time.

I have nothing negative to say about this mod. I admit its probably my skin causing some sort of issues I used this mod in the past and it worked fairly well. as of now i went to Keycaptcha and its working very well.

To each his own however I hate key captcha. My registration is simple using a picture mod by BOP5. This mod blocks 99% of spam. However you do have to set it up correctly, as has been explained in this thread many times. Most with problems using this mod do not take the time to set it up correctly. It does take a little time to set up and test!

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Earlier today, I saw on my forum that 208 people were online with my IP address. What kind of problem is this and what can I do about it.

I use SPAM-O-MATIC and have a subscriptiion to Akismet, and whatever was going on didn't effect my forum with spam.

On 8/29/12, I had 1,172 people online, of which I know was impossible, being that we are a new forum, although, no problems with spam then.

According to your product, there have been 4 spammers denied registration.

Thanks, Bryce

I already have that usergroup for new members.

Still would be great if they could update the plugin, to give us an option to block all posts from other languages. These are practically the only posts that still make it through the filter on our forums.

example : Block all posts not in "English". (drop-down menu to select appropriate language)

not sure how difficult it would be to setup on the developer end though..

Bruce, just for grins disable S-O-M to see if you still have the same problem. I don't think that this mod is the problem, but the only way to know for sure is to test it.

Being a new forum I see that many visitors as almost crazy but if you are using forum runner then it is possible. I did a quick Google search but your forum wasn't on the first page. As far as multiple users having the same IP that I see quite a bit, so how many are you talking about?

I'm sure that if you had a mod check for language it would take time for each post to be scanned before it was submitted to the forum, this would really slow things down. That does not include things like "CUL8r"!

The important thing is to submit these spam messages when they happen. This mod is great for doing that for you. I even get a few from time to time, but not enough for me to break a sweat. The other option that you have is to ban the e-mail and IP in vB. That may help because I believe what you are seeing is Russian.

You wrote, "As far as multiple users having the same IP that I see quite a bit, so how many are you talking about?"

I don't know how to answer this question. I read at the bottom of my forum that there were 208 users online, I clicked on the highlighted in red, 208 users online, and was directed to the page that reflects the IP address for each user. All were my IP address.

Also, I could see that each forum had a number of people reading posts.

You say to turn off s-o-m, to see what happens, what would I then do to protect myself from spammers on my site at that time.

In plugging and products disable. You are only testing, so you can enable it again. Now select "who's online" and see if they all show the same IP. They shouldn't all be the same, although you may see a few with the same.

What mod did you use to view last time? I'm on a cell phone so I can't view the actual forum. I turned that feature off. I also do not use taptalk or forum runner. Mods do not work with them.

Edit: got online and saw the forum. I see what you are saying you clicked that was in red. That should take you to the "who's online" area. Right now you have nobody viewing the forum, so wait until you have 5 to 20 people viewing the site.

I see now what you are talking about. I will disable the s-o-m and see what happens.

how can I disable the Spam-O-Matic Statistics box above the "Current Total Users Online"?

tagged, thanks

got it.

Hello

Automoderation is set to some usergroup when users are moved afte email check. Automoderations is set to prevent post and we have a lont list of bad words.

However anybody can bypass the automoderations by writing any words.

This plugin was working fine until suddenyl stopped one week ago just after set some new parameters.

But it's strange that blocking spammers registration is working smoothly.

Mine seems to have suddenly quit working, I had a huge amount of spammers get by last night including plastering my board with spam posts. Has something changed recently?

Same here, yesterday a lot of spammers grant access to register in my forum. SOM log showed: "Unabe to connect to SOM server,... " in each registration. "Passed to vbulletin,..."

Any problem with the server? Anything we have to change?

Thanks!

I believe this is not an issue. If I'm correct in my assumption, this has to do it the StopForumSpam database is down for maintenance.

If this is set to Allow Registration then you could get some spammers. I wouldn't suggest that you deny the registration, simply because it should be temporary.

Information found in forum at SFS forum


I don?t know what I would do without SFS. Thanks.

In the settings, there's an option about what to do when the StopForumSpam server is unavailable. I think the default is to allow registration since usually there is another layer of protection by new users being placed in a moderated group, and you don't risk blocking legit users. You can change that if you wish.

D'oh.. beat me too it.

Hi,

In the course of de-spamming, when you get to /inlinemod.php, it says "Spam-o-matic has performed the following actions" and displays a bunch of links to user profiles.

These links point to /user.php, which does not exist.

Is this a know issue?

Thanks

N

That list is new registrations, that have not ever made a post. New registrations have to post before they are considered moderated, even if you do not use the S-O-M or vB moderation of posts.

Many people register and read but never post. I have done that on a number of forums. I'm not a spammer, I just don't have any information to post.

The problem is that the links are broken. The names of those users are clickable links. The links point to a non-existent page called /user.php.

Is this a known issue or should I file a bug report?

Thanks.

I'm not sure about that. I though the link should point to usercp.php but that doesn't seem to be correct.

I've personally never worried about that as it has to do with users that share the same IP and so forth. Maybe someone else is a little more familiar with this and could give you more detail. I don't know that submitting the issue would be something that would get fixed. There hasn't been an update on this mod in quite a while.

I just look at the list, but for the most part the information that is given may be accessed through the AdminCP if you need to do anything, but I have never messed with it. Basically the information looks like this:

The information is pretty much standard info that you should already know as an Admin of the site. This of course also depends on which modifications that you use, but I personally don't have a problem with it. Maybe someone else could help you out here.:)

I'm getting sick of the spammers on my forum and I've been directed here.. I'm hoping to use this and to stop the spammers on my forum. I've just downloaded the file and reading through the read me information and came across this at the bottom.

'* Please note, for this plugin to work, cURL must be installed on the server
or allow_url_fopen enable in PHP settings'

I don't know where or how to change or do any of those. Do I need to change one of these for this mod to work? If so could someone tell me how?

You can change allow_url_fopen in the php.ini file. I think cURL is a package that has to be installed. In either case, unless you do your own server admin that would be something to ask your host about.

If you're not sure if about those settings, you can go to "View PHP Info" under Maintenance in the admincp. Under the section header "core" it should show the value for allow_url_fopen. I believe if cURL is installed it will have it's own section showing the settings for that module.

Edit: yeah, I should probably have put that second paragraph first, and started out by saying that you may not have to change anything.

I suggest trying it first, to see if it's broken. Most likely those are already enabled, and it'll work fine. :)

I also suggest turning off the nickname check against the stopforumspam.com database. You'll get false positives from legitimate people with this option on. (default)

I got the following error when trying to install v2.0.2 on a fresh upgrade of vBulletin 4.2.0 PL2.

Any ideas?

Yes, replace TYPE=MyISAM with ENGINE=MyISAM There should be 3 instances of this in the XML file. You will need Notpad++ to view and make the changes you may download it here: Notpad++ download

that got it, thanks

Make sure to NOT select the check user name option. Only check e-mail and IP address.

I just installed my Spam-o-Matic last night, and was absolutely thrilled with it until I noticed a few spammers getting on. Took me a while to realise that happened. Stop Forum Spam is down... Drat and darn it!

One of the Glow Host options is: What should happen if the remote connection times out when querying the new registration? And it was set to Allow Registration.

I realised that the remote connection must be timing out and so I tried to get on to Stop Forum Span in another tab, and that's when I found out it was down.

I didn't think there was any point in setting it to Block Registration because that way, a lot of innocent people could get caught by it.

So I've had to stop user registrations totally for a while, while SFS get it sorted out.

I'm wondering though how often SFS gets brought it down, since so many of us are reliant on them?

Occasionally but not often. Everyone has maintenance to do from time to time.

I keep my registration blocked. If they are legit users they will comeback later and register. Rather loose a few than have a ton of spammers mucking up my site.

-A

Hi Alibass, that's good to know that SFS are not down that often.

Yes, I think that keeping registration turned off is a much better option than having spammers all over the site.

thx my friend :D

they changed their api address to api.stopforumspam.org to hopefully avoid future problems like they are having today. Anybody know a quick way to update this in Spam-O-Matic?

I would love to know as well.

Well, after searching the db and plugin files, I realized that there's a file uploaded to includes/ that would surely have the stopforumspam URL and it does! :D

Open includes/functions_ghsom.php and find/replace every instance of www.stopforumspam.com with api.stopforumspam.org

Tested and works. :cool:

Wonderful!