Sorry ForceHSS dumb question time, where do I find that file to potentially update it

I originally installed this mod in later December and it has worked flawlessly since until 4 days ago :(

Are you running the latest version 2.1.0 from 1/10/2013 ?

Yes 100%

All info is in that post

Thanks but I dont know where to find functions_ghsom.php and the single post does not tell me this hence the dumb question.

why also would I need to change this if I have had the mod installed since Jan 2013 and it has worked perfectly until now?

Is it possible the company hosting my website have made changes on their server that they are not telling me about??

The file is in the download in the op post and you said in a either post you were having problems if you have changed that statement then you don't need to put this fix in place

Sorry bit confused here I explained the problem I was having for the last few 4 days or so being the error below, that hasn't changed and I haven't changed my statement??

I am really grateful to all for suggestions and help offered but thus far still cannot work out what or why is causing this issue, ALL help appreciated.

error as follows ( I have tried to contact the person on this thread from about 20 pages ago how had same error but no response yet)

"Unable to connect to StopForumSpam.com. This is probably due to some temporary problems on their website: Unable to check. User passed to vBulletin registration system per your settings at 'StopForumSpam: Query Conn"

You have shell/ssh access for your host, activate it, log in with something like PuTTY, and run the command below:
If you don't get a response back in the first second, it means they've banned your server's IP.

Thanks for advice as always VB results much appreciated.

Has this code been updated? Any other way to hide stats from regular viewers? I tried these instructions and it gave an error at the top of the forum page.

In the post I linked to you

open functions_ghsom.php
replace code from line 96 - 105 with

You will find this file in the ops download ie: the zip file. I really can't make this any clearer

Very strange I didn't touch anything and it is suddenly working again??

Go figure thanks to all for suggestions and help

I don't know about anyone else, but I have been getting inundated with Russian, Chinese, and Italian spam for the past week or so. Spam-o-Matic has been updated...

Yes same here. It seems the stop-forum-spam service isn't keeping up with the spammers and thus quite a few of them are getting through the net. Way more are still being blocked but it only takes a few to cause chaos.

PS - I'm about to upgrade from 2.0.8 to the latest version. I assume I just replace the files and overwrite the product with the new XML or do I need to uninstall it first?

Just overwrite all files

Try the wget thing I sent the the other Mark earlier;

right now i am in version 2.0.2 if i upgrade will i lose all my spam o matic stats at the bottom of the forum????

Overwrite all files in the FTP then install new XML overwriting old one then you won't

Nice plugin. I wish it had option to delete already registered spammers. My forum has become spammer paradise with around 10,000 odd spammers. (Daily around 400 - 500 registrations)

I don't mind paying for this (if you can plan to include this as a paid feature)

This used to be a feature, didn't it? I will have to turn this off, I had a moderator accidentally click on one single post from a 2500+ post member and the system deleted five spammers and one of my best members .... JUST GONE.

This tool is very powerful, but I do NOT want all of my 20+ moderators to have access to perm. delete everything.

... ok, so the best solution for those of us with moderators is to configure this this.

Easy Cleanup: Enable -- Enabled
Easy Cleanup: User Action -- Ban User
Easy Cleanup: Permanent Thread/Post Delete -- No
Easy Cleanup: Allow Override -- No

Configuring your StopForumSpam to this degree will allow the spam to be removed from the site of the typical member. The moderators will be able to ban users and soft-delete (can be restored) any number of messages and/or posts.

This will prevent a catastrophe like I have seen on one of my sites where a moderator accidentally removed one of my best users from the system simply because he posted inside of a spam thread asking why there were so many spammers. With these settings, your user will be banned and his/her posts will be soft-deleted, which can easily be restored when you find out about it.

Have a plugin I made if you want it that will do it for you but have you tried using the prune option in the admin panel

Yes, I trued Prune option.. deleted around 7-8,000 users using it but the other 10,000 spammers have activated their accounts so actual accounts and their accounts have been mixed. So difficult to filter manually or using the options provided in prune option.

There are many options in the prune to pick I am sure you can get a few more. Why did you let it get so bad before you done something about it. As I said before I have a plugin you can use that will remove all posts they made and delete them if you want yes it only does one member at a time but it's a good program pm me if you want it

Actually this happened in the month I was away.. busy with some other things and when I checked the stats today, realized that almost 400 - 500 members had registered on daily basis. I will PM you in few minutes.

I have gone back 15 pages but can't find anything posted about this bug -

When a user trys to register they get this error -

Can somebody please point me to a solution? I have done a full re-install, and the old version used to work fine for me.

Has anyone else's easy cleanup disappeared? I noticed on my forum it was just gone. I tried updating and it is still gone. Does anyone have any tips?

A client sent us an email about this same issue.

Make sure to upload the contents of the upload/ folder to the forum directory, not the upload folder itself.

Hey,

Noticed somewhat a bug that I hope can be rectified.

In the auto-moderation bad words, I have these

However, they must be alone in order to trigger the mod to act upon the post. For example, if user posts something.com or [url=something].. it does not work.

How can this be fixed?

Only way I see is to remove them

Remove what?

The bad words you have in the list

Sorry, but why would I delete the censored words to get the other portions (words) working? Doesn't make any sense. That's not even what I was asking.

After deleting someone with this mod, I get this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php on line 108

How would I fix this? Thanks...

Nelson

I have the Akismet number in BOTH locations, and I STILL get:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php on line 108

never mind found it.

Anyone? Still getting this error!

I get this too

If you uninstall and install does the problem go away?

Tried that. Nope. It comes right back.

Even went in with Filezilla and made sure every part of it was deleted. Then reinstalled it. No joy.

As I said the Akismet number is verified correct (I checked it) and installed in the two locations one in the Glowhost options and one in the Admincp spam options. Still no joy.