Question - when a post is moved to the moderator queue, does it count towards their post count? So if we set the "max post" setting to 5, and a spammer posts 6 times, with 5 of them going into the moderator queue, will the 6th one show up live?

thanks good:)

This mod has been a great help. Has it ever been updated so that it checks subject headings as well?

Another thing that would be a great jelp would be the ability to set rules to check for keyword avoidance behaviour. Such as if the post has more than 3 asterisks it would go to mod queue. Or if there were more than four letters in a row with spaces between them, it would go to mod queue.

Thanks again for a great mod.

great mod... just added this to my forum and stopped a porn post from showin up.

great work ;)

Do i get to see the spammy posts that get sent to moderation queue here:
ACP -> Moderation -> Moderate Threads/Moderate Posts? Does the moderator get an email if a post has been blocked and sent to Moderation queue?

Yes to answer your first question, no, there is not an email sent.


A question for the hack producer, had a strange one today. I have archived members who have been on the forum for more than a year and who have zero posts, by putting them in a new user group. It would appear that the spam trap didn't catch one of these this morning, is it because he was not in the usergroup "Registered user" ?

I don't know if anyone noticed this, but the filter is applied only on new threads, not on posts to existing threads, so this solves only the half of the problem. Though it is a good thread and
is working fine, but will be better if posting to existing threads is taken into cinsideration.

Also there is a simple way to workaround this filter, that is by posting a thread without any of the filter keywords, then modifyng the post and adding them, they will not be catched and the threads will still there.

Does this work on 3.8.2 boards?

Confirmed working on 3.8.2

II hope this will be updated for v4, otherwise I'm sticking to 3.x.
This mod is on my list of must haves.

Thanks for making it available.

just installed this one.... i added www and http, is that a good idea ?

tks to the developer.

Yes, I've also included the @ symbol, Email, sale and quite a few other spam related words.

I think you just need the www.

I put the HTTP as well for addresses which don't use www.

Just have a browse through your spam posts, there are common words in most of them.

There is a much simpler way to handle email links and URLs - prevent the bbcode for them by adding the following to your Prevent Spam rules [img prevents a spammer from getting around the issue by using images of email addresses or URLs):

[url [email [img

This way, you don't have to worry about which form of URL is used...

Great Addon Awesome!

Hi

does this also work with visitor messages within user profiles ad/or within Private messages?

Does it work with vb 3.83?

Thanks in advance

I've installed this mod because we have had a rash of people from China posting nonsense on our boards just to put this "smiley face" in the post:

http://www.ipodz.co.cc/imgs/signature_damoo.jpg
and
http://www.esharez.info/imgs/signature_deepthakur.jpg

I put ipodz and esharez into the spam filter list but it isn't stopping these posts. These are new members so they aren't hitting the 30 post threshold to not scan. Any ideas?

A few spammers have twigged that if they post just any old text in a post it will pass the spam filter, then they go back and edit it with the spam links.

I've disabled newly registered members' ability to edit posts which has temporarily solved the problem.

I'm Looking at better ways to do it though, perhaps the hack writer could explore including post edit in the hack?

You can, of course, use this mod in tandem with some others. These days it seems you need a combined strategy for reducing spam and even then the annoying losers manage to sneak some through from time to time.

Try adding these:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205044

and https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177704

hi,
i need to upgrade to vb4 are Prevent Spam is ok by vb4?

thanks in advance for your help

Will this work in 3.8 series? I need this badly. :)

Yes it works fine in 3.8

Yes agreed, have it installed and working on two forums running 3.8.4, wouldn't want to be without it. :)

that's good,

but it's better if you upgrade it,

to move this members to another group (pending members) with the (spam word) without moderating their posts.

thank u,

Just installed. Have had problems with Russian spam and mmediately caught two.

Works pefectly! Thank you!

hi,

are Prevent Spam Posts ok with vb4?

regards

hel

I would like to also know. Thanks

me 3 this is one of the reasons i aint upgraded yet... couldn't live without this mod :)

Well, good news for you - this mod works perfectly in vB4.

(It has no templates, which is a really good start when looking for mods to work with 4. ;) )

I'm having a problem with spammers signing up and just typing a normal post and then putting URL's to viagra or whatever into their signature. Is there any way to get this mod to check the signatures too?

Had the same problem, but decided to disallow post editing for anyone who has less than 10 posts and hasn't been a member for more than a month, did this by creating a promotion from registered to registered_ which then has full member privileges.

Causes a few problems, but solves more than it causes.:) I've also disallowed PM privileges until the promotion, as we were getting a lot of PM spam.

Have this running on 3.8 and vb4.

This is one of the most useful spam prevention mods I have installed and I'm still using it for 3.8

There does appear to be a way to bypass the filter though, which I'm obviosuly not going to post on an open forum. Is this mod still supported at all, I notice the last update was 3 years ago!

I've been using this mod for some time all the way through 3.8.4.
I think it stopped working with 3.8.5.
Anyone else notice a problem with 3.8.5?
Could a hook have changed?

Seems to be working fine in vB4.03 PL1 :)

How do you add keywords to your filter? I am not sure where to look. Thank you!

Settings/options/prevent spam

Adrian,
I am a newbee.
I uploaded your code... now what? Does it start working automatically? I went to the "edit" feature in the "Installed Products" section, but didn't find where I could customize "spammer" keywords like "phamarcy, viagra," etc.

The Text file that came with the download didn't give any instructions.
There were also two files that come with your download - I had no idea which to load, so I loaded the latest one that was created. .?

Sorry if I sound so new. Cuz I am.
Can you help?


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